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1918 • ceNteNNiAl of PolANd’SPOLISH rebirth AMERICAN • JOURNAL 2018 • MAY 2018 www.polamjournal.com 1 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY JOURNALDEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE before rob, there wAS iggy ESTABLISHED 1911 MAY 2018 • VOL. 107, NO. 5 • $2.25 www.polamjournal.com PAGE 14 POLONIA’S MATERNAL SPIRIT • HONORS FOR BENETAR • MAHER CALLS IMPRUDENT BUSINESS PLAN “POLISH” CHRZANOWSKA BECOMES FIRST R.N. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SAINTHOOD • OWN A PIECE OF POLISH ART HISTORY KRASZEWSKI GIVES MICKIEWICZ’S DZIADY A NEW AUDIENCE • POLONIA PLACES: ST. CASIMIR’S CHURCH, KENOSHA Newsmark Orchard Lake Recognition Well-Deserved Schools Names Polish Ambassador Piotr PolANd SigNS deAl to buy AMericAN Air-de- Wilczek (left) presents dr. feNSe SySteM. Poland has signed an historic deal to Polish Mission thaddeus V. gromada with a buy American Patriot air-defense systems for $4.75 billion. “Nominations Diploma,” which The fi rst Patriot systems are expected to reach Poland by Director ORCHARD LAKE, Mich. certifi es the noted historian 2022, followed by additional deliveries in 2024. as an elected foreign member The contract was signed by Polish Defense Minis- — The Orchard Lake Schools announced its selection of Dr. of the Polska Akademia ter Mariusz Błaszczak at a ceremony in Warsaw attend- Umiejętności (Polish Academy ed by President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Arkadiusz Gorecki as its Di- rector of The Polish Mission. of Arts & Sciences) based in Morawiecki, and the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Paul W. Kraków. He is now part of the Jones. The purpose of The Polish Mission is to preserve and Academy’s Section II History Duda said the deal for the anti-aircraft and anti-missile and Philosophy. system marked a “historic moment.” The U.S. Embassy promote Polish and Polish- American culture, tradition, The presentation took place website called the agreement “the culmination of our two March 27, at the University of countries’ eff orts over the past few years,” and is a direct and history for present and fu- ture generations. It organizes North Carolina Chapel Hill. Ar- result of a meeting between President Trump’s and Presi- rangements were made by dent Duda in Warsaw last July. programs, courses and events that highlight Polish and Pol- Honorary Consul of the Re- ish-American culture and ac- public of Poland in Raleigh, Dr. SolidArity with britAiN. Poland expelled four Rus- Alvin M. Fountain. sian diplomats over the poisoning a former Russian spy complishments, and ensures a repository for artifacts, ar- Dr. Gromada is Professor and his daughter in Britain. Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Emeritus of History of New Jer- Czaputowicz said the diplomats had to leave the country chival materials, works of art, and publications. sey City of History. During his by April 3. Dr. Gorecki was born in tenure at NJCU he pioneered “Showing solidarity with Britain and other countries is Olsztyn, Poland, currently the Multi-Ethnic and Immigra- the most important thing,” said Czaputowicz. “There are lives in Chicago, and is a U.S. tions Studies program. In addi- diplomatic costs to that, but they are worth it.” citizen. The world renowned tion he was closely associated Shortly after Poland’s announcement, Russia retaliated. musician received the high- with the New York based Pol- Poland’s Ambassador to Russia, Wlodzimierz Marciniak est degree, a Professional Di- ish Institute of Arts & Sciences was told by the Russian federation’s foreign ministry that ploma in Music Performance of America (PIASA) where he four Polish diplomats, having been “recognized as undesir- from the Roosevelt Universi- served as Secretary General, able persons” were ordered to leave Russia by April 7. ty in Chicago, with a concen- Executive Director and later tration in Orchestral Studies as President. Dr. Gromada also iSSueS wArNiNg oN breXit. Poland’s member of Eu- served as President of the Pol- ropean Union warned the EU is “underestimating Brexit.” See “Gorecki,” page 4 ish American Historical Asso- Speaking at a conference on the EU’s future, Danuta ciation for two terms. Hubner, chair of the Parliament’s Regional Aff airs com- mittee and a member of its Brexit Steering Group, said “we Special to the Polish American Journal are underestimating the consequences of Brexit in all of its dimensions, for the European Union and also the regions and the local communities that are linked strongly with our Holocaust Remembrance Law Puts Poland British partners on diff erent levels of cooperation.” The Steering Group’s purpose is to coordinate and put together Parliament’s deliberations, resolutions and con- on the Wrong Side of the Global Left siderations relative to British withdrawal from the Euro- No Polish family was left untouched by the Nazi death machine. As a result, when pean Union. Hubner has voiced concern regularly over the Poles hear the words “Polish death camps” or “Polish Holocaust” they bristle. risks and complexities of Brexit, over next year’s European Parliament elections, and Poland’s fragile relation with by Matthew Tyrmand family was left untouched by the Nazi even such a supposedly liberal, sensitive, Brussels. death machine. As a result, when Poles worldly, cosmopolitan, nuanced ivory- (JERUSALEM POST / March 10, hear the words “Polish death camps” or tower academic elite as Barack Obama buSiNeSS uPgrAde. Prime Minister Mateusz 2018) — As the global media has high- “Polish Holocaust” they bristle. Only in used the term, referencing Auschwitz in Morawiecki told a joint press conference in Warsaw that lighted ad nauseam, Poland recently a speech in 2012, a new chamber of commerce known as PolCham USA, passed through the legislature a bill that to such widespread would help the country enter a new stage of enhanced Pol- seeks to criminalize the holding of the consternation that ish-U.S. relations. Polish state complicit for the German it served as a fi nal “The establishment of the Polish-U.S. chamber is yet Nazi crimes of the Holocaust and the at- straw on this is- another milestone on the road towards building a strong tendant German atrocities during World sue). presence of our business on the American continent, but War II. Currently the bill is being looked also towards strengthening the presence of U.S. entrepre- at by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal NoN-coMPlic- neurs in Poland,” said Morawiecki. after Polish President Andrzej Duda sent it. Poland was At the news conference attended by U.S. Ambassador it for review to make sure it complies literally the only Paul Jones, Morawiecki said that Poland’s strong economy with the Polish Constitution. country in Nazi- PHOTO: HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION/CORBIS/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES was attractive to foreign investment, including that from This bill, known as “Ustawa IPN” occupied Europe American companies. (“Institute of National Remembrance that never demon- Law”), was motivated by Poles’ desire strated any com- PolANd’S oldeSt MAle, deAd At 108. A fi refi ghter to correct historical inaccuracies regard- plicity with the fas- and World War II veteran, said to be Poland’s oldest male, ing Poland’s image and the purported cist Nazi occupiers died recently at the age of 108, the website of the Volunteer role Poland played during this dark time Nazi soldiers lead a group of Polish women into a forested (we all remember Fire Brigade in the village of Toporzysko reported recently. in history. Poland suff ered more than area to be shot. Location and date unspecified. Poland was the Vichy regime A resident of the village of Czarnowo in northern Po- any other country during this period as literally the only country in Nazi-occupied Europe that never in France and the land’s Kujawy region, Jerzy Żurek, was born in 1909 and the Nazi plan was to extinguish Polish- demonstrated any complicity with the fascist Nazi occupi- Quisling one in was among the founders of the local fi re brigade. He fought ness and Poland from the map in the he- ers. German law decreed immediate execution of Poles who Norway, which against the invading Germans in the World War II Battle gemonic expansion of the Third Reich, protected Jews. were closer to the of Bzura, was captured, sent to a POW camp, and later to in addition to their “Final Solution” vis a norm than the ex- forced labor on a farm in Germany. vis European Jewry. recent years did the international me- ception in continental Europe). Poland “All the men in my unit got killed. I survived only be- Widely accepted estimates of loss of dia formally change their style guides operated a government-in-exile in Lon- cause I had been sent off on a reconnaissance mission,” life in Poland suggest six million Poles to strike “Polish death camps” from the don, never had a single SS volunteer, Żurek said. perished – three million Jewish and three press lexicon (and in a fi tting display million non-Jewish Poles. No Polish of how widespread this ignorance was, See “Remembrance Law,” Page 2 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MAY 2018 Almanac Remembrance Law: Poles Were Executed for Hiding Jews follow us on facebook, continued from cover extent of PO’s brazen back-room deSigNed for effect. The in his accounting of the prime min- and on the web, too, at: corruption published in Polish news roll-out of the law, as with its word- ister’s response to his question. Said www.polamjournal.com and saw penalties for hiding Jews weekly Wprost) it led rightfully to ing and the communications that response (using the word “perpetra- Q more severe than anywhere else its being ignominiously turfed out surrounded it, was particularly egre- tors” to refer to other groups during May Maj (whole families, such as the Ulma of power, much to their Brussels gious.

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