Organization Number (470) 765-6642 Fall 2015 Issue Of The Pulaskian

President RICHARD C. NAROG 1st Vice President KEITH MACHTEL 2nd Vice President DONNA ZABO Executive Secretary BEN SZEMPRUCH Treasurer TOM POLACIK President’s Message Recording Secretary ALYCE DOLINSKI Hello everyone and welcome back from Summer Break! Financial/Corresponding Secretary CATHERINE JAY hope this issue of The Pulaskian finds you in good • Artur Kasprzak High ANDREW TERNES health. Each one of you play an integral part of School Award for Sergeant-at-Arms I promoting the spirit of Polonia. I thank you for your $750 goes to Alexa MATTHEW WICELINSKI continued support as your 17th elected leader! Lubomski Citywide Trustee I want to make mention that our dues going forward In a few short weeks, we CHRISTINA GRYZIEC in 2016 will be $30 per year for General Members. We will celebrate the Annual Trustee—Bronx are working on automatic payroll deductions through Pulaski Day Parade on MARTIN TOCZEK PAWEL DZIEWIECKI Employee Self-Service (ESS) so be on the look out! Sunday Oct. 4, 2015. You have two options: 1- Meet Trustee—Brooklyn Our 59th Annual Dinner Dance was a wonderful time! us at the Kowalinski Post PETER N. BEHAN Mary Jo Buczek was honored to be Person of the Year. for a light breakfast, board Pres. Richard Narog Trustee—Manhattan Mary Jo and The Police Officer Michael J. Buczek the bus to midtown at 1030 hours or 2- Muster at 36th GREGORY CHUPA Little League have done so much for the community in MATT TKACZUK St. & 5th Ave at 1100 hours. Bring your family, especially Washington Heights and the 34th Pct. Plus, she comes the kids! This will be an enjoyable event. Either way, all Trustee—Queens from a lineage of Pulaski members. Such a great family. of us will meet back at the Post for a Post-Parade Party. THOMAS WNEK We really love the hard work she does to shape the JOHN TRZCINSKI Remember, you MUST be a member to march with us community and the children of Washington Heights. and to participate in the after party. HINT HINT Trustee—Staten Island Our Pulaskian of the Year was our Fin. Secty. Cathie Jay. SYLWIA ZUKOWSKI Cathie has since retired for the past 12 years and still is I encourage all of you to follow us on social media Editor heavily involved in the Association. We truly appreciate and always keep your contact information current. We STEFAN KOMAR all of her hard work keeping us moving along! utilize email, Facebook, and Twitter as primary means of Retired Members Representative communication. TOM RYAN Scholarship Night was held in June, we are very proud of ED RYBAK this year’s winners: I look forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting. Visit nypdpulaski.org for upcoming events. I am always Past Presidents • Michael J. Buczek College Award for $1500 goes to available to you should you need to speak to me. Be Safe MICHAEL LABOWSKI* Natalie Ralko Out There! STEVEN J. GECEWICZ* ANTHONY J. PIERZGALSKI* • New York Law Enforcement College Award for $1000 Fraternally, PETER C. BARTOSZEK goes to Sabrina Kachurka EDWARD C. BANG* Richard C. Narog JOSEPH A.MOTTLE • Peter C. Bartoszek High School Award for $1000 goes President. PHILIP J. MANDZIK to Katlyn Bartoszek JOSEPH E. LUBOMSKI DIANNE T. BRONSKI ANDREW LEONIAK WILLIAM DOBRANSKI JULIAN M. DWORNIK From the Editor Polish Traces in Haitian History THOMAS J. RYAN ANNE MARIE B. VERBIL By Stef Komar PETER J. BARTOSZEK MICHAEL E. LUKOWSKI very year there is a contingent of Haitian was Polish or from Russia. The Haitian Constitution of faithful who accompany the pilgrimages of 1804 prohibits the ownership of land by whites, with the Attorney at Law Poles and Polish Americans to Doylestown, exception of … Poles! The Haitian village of Cazale ALEXANDER J. MALEWSKI JR. Pa. to pray to the replica of the famous Polish is supposedly a combination of the Creole word “Ca,” Chaplains EIcon of Our Lady of Czestochowa. As it turns out, the which means “Home,” and “Zale,” the shortened version MSGR. JOSEPH KOZLOWSKI* Haitian image of “Erzulie Dantor” is practically identical of the Polish name Zalewski, which itself means “from REV. MARION A. GURAL* to the icon of the Polish “Black Madonna.” If one looks the family of Zalew.” A large percentage of the residents REV. EDWARD M. KACHURKA at the nameplates of Haitian NYPD officers, one will find of this village, and a few other villages, are white, and names that sound Polish, and when asked, those officers have Polish sounding names. * Deceased will tell you that family lore tells them that their ancestor Haiti was previously a French colony called Continued from the cover Saint Domingue that was on the island of black groups occurred, which strengthened Poles finally ended up following orders and Hispaniola, part of which was also a Spanish the forces of those fighting the French. taking part in the massacre or not. It is clear colony called Santo Domingo. In Haiti At the same time, French reinforcements from the writings of the French Commander the black slaves were brutally exploited on arrived and amongst them were Polish troops. that the Poles overall were not accustomed to, plantations that provided crops and profits for These Polish troops were Poles who had and less than enthusiastic about, his extreme France. The treatment of the slaves in Saint left Poland for France after Prussia, Russia and tactics. Letters by Poles definitively expressed Domingue, in comparison to other colonies, Austro-Hungary occupied Poland. Poland disapproval of the French treatment of the was dismal, with a high death rate that was completely taken over in 1795 because in blacks. Most importantly, the black leader demanded a frequent supply of fresh slaves to 1791 it had ratified the second Constitution of the Haitians, Jean Jacques Dessalines, manage the plantations. The extreme cruelty in the world after the United States, the first having once fought on the side of the French accorded the slaves was met with resistance in Europe. The surrounding Monarchies did and having switched sides just prior to this and rebellion. These rebellions were crushed not want a country within their midst that massacre, became extremely positively inclined with atrocities designed to cow the slaves had such progressive laws granting freedoms towards the Poles and went out of his way to into submission, but instead strengthened and rights to the townspeople and peasants. protect them from the slaughter directed at their resolve to fight for freedom. In 1791 France, being also progressive, was declared a the rest of the white population during the another rebellion took place that ended up Republic in 1793, and had the same enemies rebellion and after the last French troops left with France granting freedom to all of Haiti’s as Poland, so Poles hoped that France would the island. He also had Polish soldiers in his slaves in 1793, an act which was ratified by the help liberate Poland. The French allowed the personal guard. French National Assembly in 1794. In 1801 Poles to create legions, military formations, At some point Polish soldiers began to Saint Domingue proclaimed a constitution in allied states where they fought on behalf switch sides to the Haitians and were openly and both the French and Spanish parts of of France against their common enemies. In welcomed. While it could be said that many did the island were under the rule of Francois exchange, the leaders of France had promised so to save themselves, there is an impression Toussaint L’Ouverture, a black slave turned to help with the recreation of a Polish state. that many did so, at least in part, because they General, who had initially fought the French, At the time of the Haitian rebellion, however, identified with the Haitians who were fighting kicked out British troops, and defeated the France was at peace with Poland’s enemies, for their freedom, just as the Poles sought to Spanish. Toussaint Louverture and the which caused dissatisfaction amongst the eventually fight for the freedom of Poland. slaves had benefited from the weakness of Polish legions. When Napoleon decided to The Haitians appear to have reminded the the French colonists in the face of looming pacify the difficult and independent colony, Poles that the reason the Poles were fighting British and Spanish invasion, as well as armed the Poles were sent in addition to French for France in the first place, was to liberate attempts by a portion of the French residents troops, to keep them busy and pre-occupied, their own country and people, and not to to break away from France. With promises instead of agitating for war to liberate Poland. suppress the freedom of others. What is of freedom, the French colonists won over The Poles arrived in Saint Domingue in telling is that when the French negotiated their their slaves who then fought to keep Saint two groups that together amounted to over withdrawal from the Island, and the Haitian Domingue as a loyal French colony. 5,000 troops out of approximately 40,000 General Dessalines gave all remaining Poles In 1801 France signed a peace treaty sent to subdue the slaves. One group arrived the choice to leave or stay, 400 out of the 1100 with Britain and French leaders re-examined in June of 1802, while the other in March remaining opted to remain in Haiti. Out of their diminished profits flowing from Saint of 1803. The campaign was not going well the 5000 or so Polish troops that had arrived, Domingue, which was the result of the end for the French due to high mortality from over 4000 died, most from Yellow Fever. Out of slave labor. Napoleon, who had taken over yellow fever amongst the soldiers, and the of those that died due to fighting, there is in France following the French Revolution, growing number of blacks switching sides to controversy as to how many died for Haiti decided to take away the gains of the blacks the rebels. The French Commander died and and many estimates simply assume that all had and turn them back into slaves. To achieve was replaced by another who applied extreme died for France. this goal he sent troops to Haiti in 1802 under and gruesome terror tactics against the black The Haitians were nonetheless grateful the command of his wife’s brother, Charles fighters and population that the Poles found to the Poles and felt the plight of the Poles Leclerc, whose family were wealthy plantation repulsive. The rebels responded in kind and in Europe was similar to theirs. General owners in Martinique. Although the troops slaughtered the French that came into their Dessalines, in fact, referred to Poles as the were sent under the guise of protecting the custody. It soon became common knowledge Negroes of Europe. As a result, the Poles, colony, the Haitian blacks viewed the arriving amongst the Haitians, however, that the Poles unlike other whites, were allowed to own troops with suspicion and hostilities began as were sympathetic to their plight and treated property in independent Haiti, with its soon as the troops touched ground. Some the Haitians humanely, and the Haitians began new name deriving from the Indian word blacks were wooed to the French with friendly to distinguish them from the French. While that meant mountainous land, and this was overtures, thus weakening the resistance that the Haitians did not take French prisoners, guaranteed in the Haitian Constitution. The retreated into the countryside. Many prominent torturing and killing them instead, they began Poles settled in several villages such as the blacks such as Toussaint L’Ouverture then to spare the lives of Poles, who then told aforementioned Cazale, and Fond Blanc or abandoned armed resistance and returned of their predicament, and the loss of their Fond des Blancs, with the names of the last to civilian life, weakening the resistance even country’s freedom in Europe. One story two containing the French word for white, a more, and emboldening the French troops to that apparently became well known amongst possible reference to the race of the original start implementing their plans to enslave the the Haitians was an incident when the French inhabitants. To this day, the inhabitants of black population once again. After the French Commander decided to kill all the remaining these villages are lighter skinned, blue-eyed, arranged a meeting with the promise of safety, black soldiers that were fighting alongside the and consider themselves Polish. Toussaint Louverture was arrested and sent French against the rebels. The black soldiers Another lasting impact that the Polish to prison in France, where he died the next were ordered to muster without weapons, legions appear to have left on Haitian society year. Arrests of others followed and a process after which they were surrounded and is the adoption by the Haitians of the image of disarming all blacks started in earnest. bayoneted to death. According to the story, of the Madonna of Czestochowa to represent These developments inflamed the whole as told by the Haitians, the Poles refused to the voodoo spirit Erzulie Dantor. It is believed black population and turned them completely carry out this task, although there are differing that the Haitians were impressed by the against the French. A consolidation of all opinions amongst historians on whether the devotion with which the Polish Legionnaires Continued from the cover revered the Black Madonna, and referred to Promotions her as the Queen of Poland. More than likely THANK YOU the Haitians learned that Poles attribute to Gary Gomula, OCCB to her divine intervention the miraculous Polish Deputy Chief to the following members victory of 1655 over Swedish troops at the for their donations to the siege of Czestochowa that led to the rout of Patrick Olewinski, 070 Pct. to the Swedes from Poland. It is probably more Sergeant Organization: than a coincidence that the Haitians similarly Archie Sayles credit Erzulie Dantor with inspiring the slaves to start their successful rebellion against Transfers James Gorman slavery that ended in the rout of the French Best of luck to our President Stefania Polanscak from Haiti. Rich Narog on his transfer Richard Buczkowski Although the arrival of Poles to the to Information Technology French colony of Saint Domingue was Matthew Wicelinski designed to crush the aspirations of a people Bureau (ITB). Rich is very Bernard Wicelinski for freedom, in the end, it became an example excited to be part of the Stephen J. Naklicki of Polish tolerance and humanity that left its ongoing department-wide mark in the history of another country, in David J. Kalin technology initiative. He will this case Haiti. Besides being an interesting Michael Lukowski and unusual story, it is another example of fit right in! the Poles, at a time of struggle for their own Anthony Mihovich freedom, fulfilling their slogan to fight “for Retirements Thomas Drogan your freedom and our freedom!” July 5, 2015 Police Officer Richard Gorellick Stephen Wicelinski, Transit Jerry Polacek Bureau Canine (TBK9) Stanley Rydszewski Retired after 20 years of Thomas Raczynski service. His son, Matt who Tom Jakubowski is also our Sergeant-at-Arms Ray Bartoszek & Family traded his shield for his Donna Zabo fathers. That shield has been Marc Busell in the family since grandpa Matt Tkaczuk Bernard wore it. Matt’s Thank you to our Past President Peter Bartoszek with some of grandpa Bernard retired as the members of the Michael Buczek Little a Sergeant and is a lifetime benefactors for their donations League team on opening day, April 18, in members of the Pulaski to the Organization: Washington Heights. The Pulaski Association sponsored a little league team in the name of Association. Centurion Foundation deceased Police Officer Matthew Dziergowski. Police Reserve Association New York Law Enforcement Foundation

Marriage “Sto-lat 100” • Congratulations to our Vice Pres. Keith Machtel & his beautiful wife Kerri who wed August 8, 2015 • Congratulations to our Secretary Andy Ternes & his beautiful wife Benia who wed in Poland. Wojciech NIEBRZYDOWSKI passing the Captain’s exam

Our friend Sgt. Johnny Moynihan awarded This year the Pulaski Association had its Hemmerdinger Award annual Dinner Dance on April 10, and one of the majors hits was 1st Vice President Congratulations to Michael Greco on his appointment Donna Zabo’s winged heels. Wonderful to U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of NY. Well taste Donna, and they will look so smart deserved! on patrol! News Pulaski Challenge Coin for SCHOLARSHIP sale $10 Buy it online – we WINNERS will ship our merchandise to you! Michael J. Buczek College Award shop.nypdpulaski.org for $1500 goes to NATALIE RALKO New York Law Enforcement College Award NEW MEMBERS… for $1000 goes to Welcome new recruits SABRINA KACHURKA to the greatest job on earth! Steven Blaskey Tomasz Piechowicz Peter C. Bartoszek High School Award Edward Bogucki David Radziwon for $1000 goes to Kacper Boho Christopher Roskosky Agnieszka Boinski Bartosz Sobczak Magdalena Cieciorko-Za- Sandra Sobolewska KATLYN BARTOSZEK wadzka Bogdan Szurant Artur Kasprzak High School Award Ryan Cowman Jesse A Zalewski for $750 goes to David Fitchik Michael Pyzikiewicz Rafal Jankowski William Donohue Dragan Kacanski Ronald Stenulis ALEXA LUBOMSKI Mark Kalczynski Michael Gotovich Adriana Kizer George Mole Radoslaw Kosiorek Gregory J Wallace Anna M Loboda Christopher Konovitch Gregory Matysiewicz Minneapolis, Minnesota Daniel Mazur Police Lieutenant Grace McCaffrey Christopher Hurdok

UPCOMING EVENTS BEFORE AND AFTER 2016 Membership Renewal No, this is not a picture a young Jerry Orbach aka Detective Lenny Briscoe of Law & Order fame. This is the pre-employment photograph of Pulaski * $30 Dues Member Tony Lagoda before his hiring in 1982.

60th Annual And here is Tony after 20 years with the Job. Gone is the resemblance to a young (or old) Jerry Dinner Dance Orbach instead, he has that “20 year gaze” and a good bit of stubble. Now that he’s retired and collecting a pension, I hope he invests some of it in Announcement shaving cream and razors! Way to go, Tony! Fri. April 22, 2016 Do you have a Before and After Department photograph you’d like to share with the membership? Email them to [email protected].

SADSAD NEWS/NEWS/ DEATHSDEATHS • John Lynch who passed away February 5, 2015 • Marc Bussel on the passing of his father, Arthur, on April 7. • Donna Zabo on the passing of her grandfather, Philip LaFiandra, on April 11. • Pulaski member Katarzyna Erario on her untimely passing on May 5. HAPPY • Robert Walczyk who passed away on May 18. NEWS: • NYPD Pulaski Association Chaplin Father Marion A. Gural • Belated congratulations to Pulaski Scholarship who passed away June 5. Coordinator Krys Fryc on the birth of his First born, Filip, in July of 2014. • Bernard Balcuk who passed away July 2.. The Pulaski Association finally made it into the departments official publication, Spring 3100 Trustee Matt Tkaczuk, Dariusz, Paul, and Jim traveled to members, handed out flyers to join the NYPD and overall Chicago for their parade and Dinner Dance raised $500 for the Scholarship Fund! Walter Wasilewski • Father & Son Maderik & our President Rich Narog made a special trip to hang out. attended the National Law Enforcement Officer’s • On June 18, Lt. Christina Gryziec (PBQN) and Sgt. Shawn Memorial in D.C. Marchlewski (IAB) ran the nypd police chase 5 k in • PO Dan Maher from Highway made the news on a Vision Flushing Meadow park. Zero segment New Pulaski logo, website, apparel, challenge coins a big • Happy Birthday to Bob Lee who turned 53 in April. success with the help from Pat Walsh who is a member of • Past Pres. Julian Dwornik donated original Pulaskian the Viking Association. publications dating back to January 1968. Thank you! • D.I. Marc Busell was awarded recognition for achieving • Rich & his wife Erica ran a booth at the Polish PLUS 20 years of service with never going “sick” festival held in May up in German Masonic Park in • Inspector Ed Winski appointed Commanding Officer Tappan, NY. They recruited new members, signed up old VICE Division.

Meaning: person from the northern Mazowsze. In 2002 Polish Surname there were 67,696 people with this surname in Polish Surname of the Day Poland. Source: Hoffman, William F. Polish Surnames: Origins & Meanings Volumes 1, 3rd Edition, page 438. Mazur Chicago, Illinois: Polish Genealogical Society of America, 2013. Print.

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