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OPEN LETTER TO POLONIA FROM POLISH AMERICANPOLISH BISHOPS AMERICAN — JOURNAL PAGE 3 • MAY 2016 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 REMEMBERING THE NFL’S “FEISTY LITTLE REDHEAD” ESTABLISHED 1911 MAY 2016 • VOL. 105, NO. 5 | $2.00 www.polamjournal.com PAGE 12 CHURCH PRESERVATION BATTLE IN PHILADELPHIA • CONSULATE HOSTS NATO SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS DUDA AND OBAMA MEET IN PRIVATE • NEW CHAIRS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE • WHO MAKES THE BEST KIEŁBASA? NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN YOUR SUMMER PICNIC MENU • POLAMS HONOR THE SAINTS • WAS POPEYE POLISH? Celebrating a Cradle of Catholicism Duda Makes Newsmark PHOTO: CZAREK SOKOLOWSKITHE / ASSOCIATED PRESS POLISH FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONS RUSSIAN His Mark in AMBASSADOR ABOUT FLYBY. The Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw has reportedly summoned Russian am- Washington bassador to Poland, Sergey Andreyev, for a meeting over by Richard Poremski Russian “provocation over the Baltic.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to sources close to the Niezalezna.pl web- For the Honorable Andrzej site, the summons is of “high priority.” Duda, president of the Re- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said April 14 the public of Poland, time was U.S. Navy ship that was buzzed by two Russian warplanes of the essence while here in the Baltic Sea this week could have opened fi re under to attend the International U.S. military rules of engagement. Nuclear Security Summit, The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) was conducting fl ight March 31-April 1, 2016, as operations with a Polish helicopter April 11 when two Rus- convened by U.S. President sian Su-24 attack aircraft came within 1,000 yards of the Barack Obama. It was attend- destroyer, fl ying just 100 feet off the ground. The follow- ed by 56 world leaders and ing day, a Russian jet came within 30 feet of the destroyer. their delegations. Noticeably A U.S. defense offi cial described the maneuvers to Fox absent was nuclear super- News as a “simulated attack profi le.” power Russia. “We condemn this kind of behavior. It is reckless. It is At a reception hosted by provocative. It is dangerous. And under the rules of en- Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf gagement that could have been a shoot-down,” Kerry said. at the Embassy of Poland, Duda delivered a 30-minute The US European Command said that “as a safety pre- THE VATICAN SECRETARY OF STATE, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, center, presided at a Mass, extemporaneous address in caution,” fl ight operations involving the Polish helicopter as part of Poland’s celebration of 1,050 years of the nation’s Catholicism at the 10th-century Polish that spanned different were suspended until the aircraft left the scene. cathedral in Gniezno, in western Poland, April 14, 2016. Poland’s bishops opened religious topics to over 250 guests. He and political celebrations that mark 1,050 years of Christianity in Poland with a debate on commented on what a mov- HEAD OF PROTEST MOVEMENT MEETS WITH U.S. its signifi cance for the nation. The church and the conservative government jointly orga- ing experience it was to stand LEADERS. The leader of Poland’s Committee for the De- nized the three-day ceremonies that opened April 14 in the western town of Gniezno, con- among so many of his coun- fense of Democracy (KOD) participated in talks with U.S. sidered to be the cradle of Poland’s Catholicism. Story and related articles on page 3. senators and representatives of the State Department con- See “Duda ...,” page 4 cerning the rule of law and human rights in Poland, April 5. The talks coincided with the vice president of the Euro- The Eyes of the New Ulma Family Museum Honors pean Commission’s appeal to the Polish government to im- plement rulings by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, World on Poland Family for Sacrifi ce in Sheltering Jews amid a deadlock between the court and the government. Head of KOD Mateusz Kijowski met with Senator This July Warsaw hosts by Staś Kmieć and of his family, neighbors, and Jews.” A Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat) of the Foreign Relations Sub- Poland’s fi rst NATO summit Geraldine Balut Coleman photograph that Ulma took of his Jew- committee on European Affairs, as well as Republican Rescuing Jews in Nazi occupied Po- ish neighbors that was stained with the John McCain and Democrats Ben Cardin and Richard J. Young Catholics joining Pope land was an exceptional challenge and Jewish victims’ blood during the 1944 Durbin. The latter three wrote a letter to the Polish prime Francis at World Youth Day equaled risking one’s own life, as well killings is among the items on display. minister on February 10, calling on the Polish government as the lives of an entire family. Tragi- The stories of Poles who helped Jews to “recommit to the core principles of the OSCE and the INCREASES SECURITY AGAINST cally, many of those who EU, including respect for democracy, human rights, and POTENTIAL TERRORIST THREATS gave shelter to Jews were rule of law.” by Robert Strybel caught and killed, as were WARSAW–For a few days in July those whom they sheltered. MARCH OF THE LIVING TO DRAW THOUSANDS. stories with a Warsaw or Kraków date- Poland’s fi rst museum honoring Poles who res- Some 8,500 people, mostly young Jews from over 40 coun- line will make headlines around the cued Jews during World tries and their Polish peers, are expected to take part in the globe. On July 8-9, Warsaw will be War II recently opened in annual March of the Living in southern Poland, on May 5. the site of the fi rst ever NATO summit Markowa, a town in south- They will take an approximately two-mile-long route from hosted by Poland. Towards the end of eastern Poland. The pa- the brick barracks of the former Nazi German concentra- the month, Kraków will be the focus of tron of the museum is the tion camp of Auschwitz to the crematoria of Birkenau. World Youth Days (July 26-31) attended Ulma Family. The murder The March of the Living was launched in 1988 and is by Pope Francis. In view of stepped up terrorist activity across Europe, both of this entire family that primarily an educational project coinciding with Holocaust was killed together with Memorial Day (Yom-ha Shoah). those events will involve a massive se- curity operation. the Jews they were hiding – has become a symbol of PARTIAL ABORTION PLAN PROTESTED. Thousands The NATO gathering will be attend- Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, along with their children, ed by the heads of state and government Polish sacrifi ce and mar- were murdered by Nazis for helping Jews — a direct gathered outside Poland’s lower house of parliament after- tyrdom during the German noon to protest against a possible complete ban on abortion of its 28 member nations including Pres- violation of orders of the German government. ident Barack Obama, and Poland hopes occupation. that is supported by the prime minister and the Church. The new museum showcases histori- during the war are featured. Doors with Prime Minister Beata Szydło stated that she is in favor it will signifi cantly bolster the alliance’s eastern fl ank. At a North Atlantic Coun- cal documents and exhibits that detail bullet marks from the 1943 execution of a complete ban. Her comments followed an open letter the Ulma family’s heartbreaking story. of fi ve members of the Baranek family, signed by the head of the Polish Episcopate Archbishop cil (NAC) meeting in Brussels, defence ministers agreed to establish NATO’s It also houses monuments in memorial which was sheltering four Jews in the Stanisław Gądecki, calling on parliamentarians to vote to the Jews murdered in the area, as well village of Siedliska are also shown. Fu- through a complete ban. “forward presence” in the new member states. Ideally, Warsaw would like to as one in memory of the Poles, who paid ture events will include fi lm screenings, Poland currently has among the most stringent abortion with their lives for their rescue attempts museum lessons for school pupils, dis- laws in Europe, meaning that a culture of backstreet abor- have permanent NATO bases on Pol- ish soil as a deterrent to Russia’s neo- and sacrifi ces. cussion meetings, and conferences. tions has emerged, likewise a syndrome whereby women “The heart of the place is the recre- The opening observances began have the operation over the border, commonly in Slovakia imperialist advances. The Poles have advocated tough sanctions against its ated house of the Ulma family,” said di- with Jewish and Catholic prayers at the or the Czech Republic. rector Mateusz Szpytma. “The dark red wooded cemetery near the village of Abortion is only permissible if a woman’s life or health giant neighbor as well as beefed-up se- curity measures following the Kremlin’s rust on the walls has a symbolic dimen- Jagiełła, where the slain Jewish mem- is jeopardized by the continuation of a pregnancy, if the sion here.” bers are buried. Prayers were said and pregnancy is a result of a criminal act such as rape, or if the 2014 annexation of Crimea and stoking of separatist strife in eastern Ukraine. “We have a huge body of iconograph- wreaths were laid also at the Markowa fetus is seriously malformed. The abortion must be carried ic material,” Szpytma said. “Józef Ulma cemetery where the Ulma family is laid, out within the fi rst 25 weeks of the pregnancy.