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U.S.-LED TROOPS AND TANKSPOLISH ROLL AMERICAN INTO POLAND JOURNAL — • PAGEFEBRUARY 2 2017 www.polamjournal.com 1 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE JOURNAL GABRESKI PHOTOS AND PIEROGIARTIFACTS POTENTATE ON EXHIBIT PASSES ESTABLISHED 1911 FEBRUARY 2017 • VOL. 106, NO. 2 • 2.00 www.polamjournal.com PAGEPAGE 10 3 RUSSIAN DRONES VIOLATE AIRSPACE • GOLUBIEWSKI APPOINTED NY CONSUL GENERAL • KUBIAK CALLS IT QUITS WILL THE GROUNDHOG SEE HIS SHADOW? • BOOK REVIEW: STANLEY HAIDASZ — A STATESMAN FOR ALL CANADIANS NEW UNDERGRAD SCHOLARSHIP IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES ANNOUNCED • ROOMS THAT SANG AND DANCED PREPARING FOR Changing of the Guard WIELKI POST Newsmark PHOTO: RICHARD POREMSKI DUDA: POLAND WANTS TO MAINTAIN CLOSE TIES WITH U.S. (Radio Poland) Polish President Andrzej Duda Polish said Poland wants to maintain close relations with the new U.S. administration. American During a meeting with the diplomatic corps in the presi- dential palace, Duda said that “the transatlantic bond brings Lenten tangible benefi ts to partners on both sides of the Atlantic.” In his speech, Duda also focused on the problems of the Customs European Union. “Today we need to refl ect on the prin- The Origins and ciples of European integration. To ensure balance between Significance of preserving the unity of the EU on the one hand and the Our Folkways social need to infl uence the course of European aff airs on the other,” Duda said. by Fr. Basil Janasik O.F.M. The president also said that “it is of utmost importance... Polish American Studies that all decisions taken by the Warsaw NATO summit are implemented to the full extent: both on the military level, n the fi rst centuries after as well as the political one.” Poland accepted Christi- anity in the year 966, the AMBASSADOR PIOTR WILCZEK is interviewed by Polish media at his residence during ILenten fast was observed so KNYSZ NEW CATHOLIC LEAGUE CHAIRMAN. Dr. the recent Polish Independence Day Celebration on November 16, 2016. It also marked the Walter Knysz was chosen to succeed Fr. Philip Eichner as strictly that nothing cooked occasion of the ambassador’s fi rst offi cial introduction in Washington and to the United or warm was eaten from the the new chairman of the board of the Catholic League. States as a diplomat representing the Republic of Poland. Story on page 4. middle of Lent until Easter Knysz holds a Doctorate of Dental Surgery from the Sunday. The people were University of Detroit. The founder of several dental busi- satisfi ed with bread, dried ness companies, one of his achievements is the establish- Birthday Bartoszewicz a Hero in fruits and smoked fi sh. Later, ment of a global provider of dental insurance; another is his fast was observed on Mon- founding of a dental practice management company. More Brings Time Fort Lauderdale Shootings days, Wednesdays, Fridays, recently, he launched a franchise agreement with indepen- PHOTO: JENNIFER MILLER COURTESY OF FAMILY for Reflection and Saturdays of the entire dent dental practitioners, providing an array of services. Lenten season and special Knysz is past chairman of the “Leading the Way” cam- mortifi cations were observed paign, and has been active for years serving on the board during the fi rst and of Ave Maria University. He has also served the Thomas last weeks. More Law Center. Bread o n l y GEORGIA PRESIDENT CONDEMS DESTRUCTION. was eat- The president of Georgia has accused Moscow of a “de- en on the Saturdays liberate act of vandalism” after reports that Russians de- in Lent. stroyed a historic Polish church and bulldozed a nearby The Poles abstained from cemetery in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia. wine on Fridays but allowed “In order to build a military training ground for the themselves beer once a week. armed forces of the Russian Federation, a 19th-century The usual drink was boiled church and historic Polish cemetery was destroyed,” said water and, in some sections President Georgy Margvelashvili. “This is a deliberate act of Poland, many faithful not of vandalism, which violates the provisions of internation- WACŁAW KOŁODZIEJEK only took no food but ab- al law, including the Hague Convention of 1954.” shows the number tattooed stained even from water on Margvelashvili called on the international community on his chest by his Nazi cap- TONY BARTOSIEWICZ (pictured in the airport with wife Good Friday. Others vowed and UNESCO to intervene over what he described as “ille- tors. His crime was being a Jennifer Cleeton) covered Dean’s body with his own as the not to take any food on Holy gal actions by the occupying forces of the Russian Federa- Polish Catholic. gunman stood over them, fi ring into the terrifi ed crowds. Saturday and remained true tion on the territory of Georgia.” by Frank Milewski by Kyra Gurney he had jumped on top of a to their vow. Olive oil was The “Echo of the Caucasus” website reported that the The Miami Herald woman who was lying on the used for cooking on non-fast Polish cemetery and church were established at the end of BROOKLYN, N.Y. — FORT LAUDERDALE, fl oor to shield her from the days in the homes of the rich. the 19th century near the village of Cabal. “With the passing of 2016 Fla. — Ten minutes after a gunman. As bullets whizzed The poor used a cheaper oil. A local offi cial told reporters that a large group of Poles and our hopes in a new year, shooter opened fi re at the Fort around them, Bartosiewicz The Poles still have a saying: lived in the area in the 19th century. I refl ect on my father’s 95th birthday on January 28, 2017, Lauderdale airport, Tony Bar- quietly told the woman, Bro- “Sir benefactor, good dump- tosiewicz called his daughter ward teacher Annika Dean, lings on oil,” as a reminder of BUYS CZARTORYSKI FAMILY ART COLLECTION. A the passage of time, human- to let her know that he was that he would protect her. those times. It was unthink- signifi cant private art collection, held by the Czartoryski ity, and his legacy as a Pol- safe. After what Dean said felt able to eat meat and it was Family Foundation, that includes works by Leonardo da ish Catholic Holocaust sur- Bartosiewicz had been in like a minute and a half of considered a concession to Vinci, Rembrandt and Renoir, will be owned by the Polish vivor. It is nothing short of the baggage claim area when shooting, police arrived and use butter. government under a recently-signed agreement. extraordinarily good fortune the shooter began fi ring on detained the shooter. Dean, Popular secular songs gave The celebrated family collection contains 593 valuable and his deep faith in God that passengers. The retired elec- a 42-year-old mother of two way to pious Lenten hymns. works of art which include Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with spared my father’s life during trician dove to the fl oor and boys, had emerged unscathed. Women put away their or- an Ermine” (“Dama z gronostajem”) and Rembrandt’s 5 years of unthinkable Nazi miraculously remained un- “The fi rst thing I said to naments and gaily colored “Landscape with the Good Samaritan.” brutality.” harmed, even as the shooter him was I thanked him and dresses and substituted com- “Lady with an Ermine” is one of the most important These are the words of walked toward him and be- told him that it was terrify- mon, dark hued garments. works in all of western art. The painting passed into Pol- Patricia Kolodziejek, whose gan to shoot over him. After ing and what he did brought Since fi sh was the staple ish hands when it was purchased in 1800 by young Prince father Wacław Kołodziejek, the ordeal, “he was really me comfort, that it was just fare during Lent, each court- Adam Czartoryski during his tour of Italy. It was a gift to was arrested in August 1940 in Warsaw as a teenager. shaken up and could barely so comforting,” Dean said. his mother, Princess Izabela Czartoryska, an avid art col- yard, monastery and village His crime: being Polish. speak,” said his daughter, “I thanked him throughout lector and founder of the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow. bred them in many ponds And he was Catholic. Jenny Miller. the day and told him he was Piotr Glinski, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister of Cul- and pools. The kitchens of It took many days in a Bartosiewicz, who lives a hero.” ture who signed the purchase agreement, said the impetus nobility had their “stockfi sh” crowded standing room only in Rochester, N.Y., told her But Miller did not fi nd out for the acquisition by the government was to ensure that prepared for Lent from great cattle car train before he was about the shooting, but he left that her 70-year-old father the works of art continue to receive proper care and that pike. When a sixteenth cen- unloaded at the Auschwitz out an important detail. He had put himself between the they remain in Poland forever. tury bishop named Erasm see “Birthday ...” page 4 did not tell his daughter that See “Bartosiewicz ...” page 4 See “Lenten ...” page 9 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2017 ALMANAC U.S.-led troops and Tanks Roll into Poland POLISH Europe’s largest such military AMERICAN Follow us on Facebook, Deterrent or Threat? and on the web, too, at: build-up since the cold war JOURNAL www.polamjournal.com “For U.S.