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UNDERSTANDING TERM AND WHOLE LIFE INSURANCEPOLISH AMERICAN — PAGE JOURNAL 3 • FEBRUARY 2015 www.polamjournal.com 1 POLISH AMERICAN YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE JOURNAL IT’S PĄCZKI AND FAWORKI TIME! ESTABLISHED 1911 FEBRUARY 2015 • VOL. 104, NO. 2 | $2.00 www.polamjournal.com PAGE 8 YOUR HERITAGE, YOUR DUTY • POLISH CODEBREAKERS NOT GIVEN DUE CREDIT • FIGHTING A WAR ON IGNORANCE POLONIA LOSSES ITS “ROCK STAR” • “RUTKOWSKI WAY” STREET DEDICATION • OLEJNICZAK AND THE GREEN BAY PACKERS UNDER ZYGMUNT’S PROTECTIVE SWORD • FALL IN LOVE THE POLISH WAY • USING FAMILY HISTORY CENTER FILMS NEWSMARK In Sympathy and Solidarity Detroit’s Chene Street: TO STEP UP OPERATIONS AGAINST ISIS. (RADIO POLAND) — Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna A Historical Perspective said in Washington after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of by Geraldine Street markets to purchase State John Kerry that Poland wants to provide more sup- Balut Coleman fresh produce and meats from port in the campaign against the Islamic State. DETROIT — Kudos to their favorite purveyors. Sad- “We want to provide more support than up until now,” Karen Majewski, Marian ly, today, there are virtually PHOTO: LESZEK SZYMANSKI Krzyzowski, and Deborah no reminiscent signs of the said Schetyna, saying specifi cs would be announced this PHOTO:WWW.FLICKR.COM month. Dash Moore, for Asked by journalists whether this would entail a mili- developing the tary engagement against the jihadist militants, Schetyna Chene Street His- said that “if there is an expectation on the part of the grand tory Project. Since coalition, we are open to talk about it.” 2002, the Institute Poland joined the U.S.-led operations in Iraq and Af- for Research on ghanistan, but it has not engaged in a military capacity Labor, Employ- against the Islamic State as of yet. ment and Econ- The United States has been pushing for a broad interna- omy (IRLEE) at tional coalition against the Islamic State since the Septem- the University of ber 2014 NATO summit in Newport, Wales. Michigan (UM) POLISH PRIME MINISTER EWA KOPACZ joined other dig- has been conduct- POLAND SCOOPS FIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. Po- nitaries in signing a condolence book at the French Embas- ing a study of land won fi ve nominations for the 87th Academy Awards, sy in Warsaw in tribute to the victims of the Paris shootings. Detroit’s Chene including two for Pawel Pawlikowski’s acclaimed movie “‘I am united in grief with the families and loved ones of Street which cuts Van Dyke Pastry Shop in 2008. One year Ida. The post-Holocaust drama was nominated for Best the victims, as well as French society,” the prime minister through Detroit’s later the building was set on fire by van- Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography. wrote. East Side from dals, but still stands today. Meanwhile, two Polish works, Joanna and Our Curse, Kopacz said she considered the murders “an attack on the Detroit River are in the running for Best Documentary Short Subject. the media (and) on the fundamental values of Europe: de- to the General Motors-Ham- Chene Street neighborhood. The fi lms, directed by Aneta Kopacz and Tomasz Sliwinski mocracy and freedom of speech.” tramck Assembly Plant. Most of this area has been respectively, explore dilemmas faced by families after the The condolence book was also signed by Speaker of Chene Street was once devastated and depopulated. diagnosis of a terminal illness. Parliament Radoslaw Sikorski, and President Bronislaw Ko- one of the city’s most vibrant The Chene Street History Finally, Anna Biedrzycka-Sheppard was nominated for morowski. commercial corridors. Along Project is aimed at producing Best Costume Design for her work on Malefi cent. In a communication to French President Hollande, Ko- its corridor were hundreds a comprehensive social and Ida has proved a runaway success on the awards cir- morowski said he was “ deeply shaken by the news of the of small and medium-sized commercial history of the cuit, recently winning fi ve prizes, including Best Film, at tragic terrorist attack on the editorial staff of the weekly businesses, many of them neighborhood with hopes of the European Film Awards. Shot in black and white, the Charlie Hebdo ... I wish to convey, on behalf of the Polish Na- run by Polish and Jewish im- chronicaling what it was like fi lm explores the plight of a novitiate nun in early 1960s tion, our sincerest condolences .... I roundly condemn this migrants. It represented the to live and work during the Poland, after she discovers that her parents were Jewish barbaric act of violence, which is an attack on the funda- heart of family, work, and a Chene Street’s vibrant years. and that they had been murdered in the Second World War. mental values of the free world, and assure you of the soli- social life for thousands of The project team has accu- Overall, two fi lms are neck and neck in terms of garner- darity of the Polish nation with the French people in these immigrants from all over the mulated several hundred oral ing the most nominations. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Bu- diffi cult times.” world, as well as for African histories from Polish, Jewish, dapest Hotel and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman Evidence points to an international conspiracy by mili- Americans who migrated and African American resi- both took nine. tants to bring terror to the streets of France’s capital. There from the South. Even Detroit dents and business owners Film critics have tipped Ida as the favorite to win in the are reports of a new accomplice, in addition to the three residents who lived outside and has scanned thousands of Best Foreign Language Film category. gunmen killed by French authorities and the widow of one, the boundaries of this cor- documents and photographs. who escaped. ridor, traveled to the Chene See “Chene ...,” page 3 LENDING HELP. During a meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Polish Prime Minister Ewa Senate Caucus Kopacz announced that Poland will provide a loan worth Documenting Polish Victims of Germany EUR 100 million (about $123.5 million USD) to Ukraine. on Poland Meets Holocaust Memorial Museum Representatives Made Presentation at Embassy The loan is intended to help rebuild the Donbas region, the site of the ongoing confl ict in Eastern Ukraine, as well with Foreign by Richard Poremski as to support democratic reforms in the country. Minister Schetyna WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Polish Ministry of Finance stated that the condi- WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Ina Navazel- tions of the loan will be negotiated between itself and the Senators Barbara A. Mikul- skis and Diane F. Afoumado Ukrainian Finance Ministry, although the intended priori- ski (D-Md.), Chris Murphy of the United States Holo- ties of the loan will be in accordance with OECD guide- (D-Conn.) and Jim Risch caust Memorial Museum lines. (R-Idaho), founders of the bi- (USHMM) in Washington, Other future projects discussed during Kopacz’s one- partisan U.S. Senate Caucus D.C. made a presentation at day visit to Kiev included the construction of a gas inter- on Poland, welcomed Polish the Embassy of the Republic connector between Poland and Ukraine, which would al- Foreign Minister Grzegorz of Poland on November 19, low Poland to supply Ukraine with up to 10 billion cubic Schetyna to Washington for 2014, hosted by Consul Ewa metres of gas per year, which would lessen Ukraine’s de- a meeting to promote and Pietrasienska under the aus- pendence on Russian gas. strengthen the United States’ pices of Ambassador Ryszard relationship with Poland. Schnepf. The program’s on- OLDEST WOMAN DIES. Lucyna Sobolewska, who had During the meeting, the sena- going mission is to publicize been Poland’s oldest woman, has died at age 113. tors and Schetyna discussed the extensive availability of On her last birthday, she told journalists how she re- records, documents, photos, key issues in bilateral rela- AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP RECORDS. Pic- membered two world wars. tions, including the Sena- eyewitness testimony, etc., of Born in lands that are currently part of Belarus, Sobo- tured is the prisoner fi le card for Polish Army offi cer Witold the Polish and other victims tors’ support for Poland’s Pilecki (aka Tomasz Serafi nski, Roman Jezierski). He later lewska likewise recollected life under the last Tsar of Rus- inclusion in the Visa-Waiver of the extreme and deadly sia, Nicholas II. escaped from captivity at the Nazi German Auschwitz Con- cruelty they suffered at the Program, Poland’s role in the centration Camp in occupied Poland, along with another She spent her twilight years in Szczecin, northwest fi ght against ISIL, and the hands of the occupying Nazi Poland, and on her recent birthdays received bouquets of prisoner, on April 27, 1943 – which report was viewed as Germans during World War need for a strong transatlantic documented to the German Gestapo secret police. These fl owers from President Bronislaw Komorowski. response in the face of threats II. At present, there are over 4000 pensioners in Poland are examples of the 150 million documents and other ma- As per the USHMM: The to security and democracy in terials already cataloged, or being processed, by the U.S. over the age of 100. Eastern Europe. German occupation of Poland The oldest man in the country now is 109. Holocaust Memorial Museum that are readily available and See “Senate ...,” page 5 accessible by the public. continued on page 4 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2015 ALMANAC VIEWPOINTS / Jan Muczyk Pulaski’s Birthday to be Observed in Follow us on Facebook or visit us Your Heritage, Your Duty Savannah, March 7 on the internet at: SAVANNAH, Ga.