2020 CENSUS TO ASK ABOUT ETHNICPOLISH ROOTS AMERICAN JOURNAL • JUNE 2019 www.polamjournal.com 1 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK AT PERIODICAL PAID POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY OFFICES JOURNALDEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE THE MOTHER OF SOLIDARITY ESTABLISHED 1911 JUNE 2019 • VOL. 108, NO. 6 • $2.25 www.polamjournal.com PAGE 15 100 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS • JOIN A GENEALOGY SOCIETY • MINNESOTA’S TALE OF TWO FISH A BASEBALL CARD LEGEND • $100K FOR THE 100TH A SUCCESS • RESTITUTION AND POLAND-US RELATIONS JANIKOWSKI HANGS IT UP • TRENTON’S ST. STANISLAUS REVISITED • A DIFFERENT DYNGUS DAY TRADITION Holocaust survivor NEWSMARK Committed to Memory Edward Mosberg: DUDA TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE. President Andrzej Duda “I am here to is meeting U.S. President Donald Trump for talks at the White House on June 12. He will be accompanied by First say that Nazi Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda. The visit had long been in Germany is the works, but the exact date remained to be arranged. The two presidents are expected to discuss defense matters in- responsible for cluding bolstering America’s military presence in Poland. the Holocaust” Also, likely to be high on the agenda are energy issuers. chiefly America’s LNG (liquid natural gas) lifeline to Po- reprinted from land to reduce its reliance on Russian supplies. Duda will Niezależna likely raise the Three Seas Initiative, an East-Central Eu- ropean program, which Trump has personally endorsed. “I am saved from the Ho- Trump has been invited to attend ceremonies marking locaust and it is my duty to the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in tell the world about the trag- Poland this September, and Duda hopes to get a firm com- edy of the Holocaust,” said mitment on his participation. This will be the Dudas’ sec- Edward Mosberg during the ond visit to the White House since last September. While commemoration of the sac- in America, the Polish president will also visit Texas and rifice of the Shiva ceremony the West Coast. of the March of the Liv- ing, which took place in the POLAND STIFFENS PENAL CODE TO CRACK DOWN former German camp Aus- chwitz II-Birkenau. ON PEDOPHILES. Poland’s Sejm has amended the coun- Major General Cezary Wisniewski, commander of the Office of the Military Attaché for De- “I am here to say that I try’s penal code to protect youngsters and adolescents fense, Military, Naval and Air at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, de- agree with what the Polish from sexual predators. Under the legislative upgrade, the livers remarks during Baltimore’s 19th Annual Katyń Remembrance. Prime Minister, Mateusz maximum prison term for child rape would be increased by Richard Poremski tarized political police. Besides Katyń, this Morawiecki said — that Nazi from 15 to 30 years, with the most serious offenders fac- genocide was also collectively carried out at Germany is responsible for ing life imprisonment and. In addition, suspended sen- BALTIMORE – On April 7, 2019, ap- other known locations in Russia, including the Holocaust,” Mosberg tences would be done away with. Up till now, two-year proximately 150 people gathered around the Mednoe, Kharkov, Starobelsk, and Ostash- said. suspended prison sentences had been widespread with the National Katyn Memorial for the 19th An- kov during the second year of World War II. Mosberg was a prisoner offender back on the streets preying on under-age victims. nual Katyń Remembrance. They came to The Remembrance was organized by the of the German camps in Penalties for any form of sexual abuse gains minors would honor and solemnly remember the 22,000 National Katyń Memorial Foundation in co- Płaszów and Mauthausen. At be increased if the offender was a teacher, gym instructor, Polish military officers, and the inclusive na- operation with the Embassy of the Republic the outbreak of World War II, priest, coach, physician, or other person to whom parents tional leadership of Poland, murdered during of Poland. he was 13 years old. Most of had entrusted their children in good faith. Moreover, the 1940 in the Katyń Forest at the hands of the statute of limitations would no longer be applied to sex Soviet Union’s (aka Russian) NKVD mili- See “Katyn Memorial,” page 4 see “Mosberg,” page 4 crimes. The measure was adopted by the Sejm in a 263-3 vote with three abstentions. True to form, most of Poland’s Krakow-built REMEMBERING DAD liberal-leftist “total opposition” boycotted the vote follow- ing a stormy debate designed to discredit the conservative Satellite Launches government. from Virginia A Tribute to Polish American Fathers years and eight months of service were up, he WALLOPS FLIGHT FA- Stanislaw Suchecki, the KARCZEWICZ VIRTUALLY A WINNER. A Pole has been spent some time as a band instructor, before CILITY — A unique satellite Archetypal Polish American returning to Connecticut. nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for her built by Kraków students was work in video compression. by Dalegor Wladyslaw Suchecki Upon return to this country, he enrolled launched into orbit from a in night school, and except for service as Marta Karczewicz has come up with hundreds of in- NASA-owned center in Wal- Stanislaw Suchecki was born on June 11, president of Nest 552, he led 350 volunteers ventions that have helped make it possible to stream high lops Island, Virginia. The 1887, in Myszyniec, Poland, the fifth of eight into the Polish Army then being organized quality video, run video conferences, and use virtual real- KRAKsat is the world’s first children of Wladyslaw D. and in Canada. Accepted for offi- ity technology on mobile devices, according to the Euro- satellite with magnetic liquid Antonina Kisiel. He landed in cer training, he was commis- pean Patent Office. orientation control. New York City in May 1902. sioned a second lieutenant and The European Inventor Award was launched by the Eu- Project team member Not yet 15 years old, he then sent overseas, where he saw ropean Patent Office in 2006. Karczewicz has been nomi- Alicja Kubera said KRAK- went to the Rockville, Conn. combat against the Germans nated for a prize as one of three finalists in the lifetime sat will be in orbit for about home of his older brother, Ste- in France. achievement category. a year, after which it will fan. After Armistice Day 1918, Karczewicz moved to San Diego in the United States in burn up in the atmosphere. Throughout his teens, he he went with the Polish Army 2006 to work at Qualcomm, where she is now vice presi- The students will monitor earned his own living. Be- through Germany to Poland to dent for technology at Qualcomm Technologies, the Euro- the equipment’s work from sides this, he served on the take part in the war against the pean Patent Office said in a statement. Kraków using special com- committee to organize St. Jo- Ukrainians and Bolsheviks This year’s winners of the annual innovation awards puter systems. seph’s church, which is still for Polish Independence. Af- will be announced at a ceremony in Vienna on June 20. KRAKsat was launched in existence. Subsequently he ter seeing heavy combat duty along with a microSD card was a bass soloist in its choir. as a company commander, ARISE, FLEXITARIANS. Traditionally meat-loving Poles with a special load, as a re- He also played a cornet in a and later as a battalion com- may be finally changing their eating habits, according to sult of the “I fly in space” band, acted in a dramatic so- mander, he won three major the Rzeczpospolita daily. The paper cited a study which campaign organized by the Stanislaw Suchecki. Re- ciety, played on the local base- decorations: The Cross of Val- found 43 percent of Poles say they do not eat meat or are students in January. The card turned to Poland to fight for ball team, served as president or (three times); the Medal of making efforts to limit their consumption. with allow enthusiasts to post Polish independence. of the local nest of the Polish Merit of the Polish Volunteer According to the publication, consumer research com- photographic or graphic ma- Falcons of America, and as secretary of St. Army; and the Medal of Merit of the Allied pany IQS has pointed to a significant new market trend terial on the satellite. Michael’s Society. Forces. in Poland: flexitarianism, or a semi-vegetarian diet. The The student satellite’s task At the age of 21, Suchecki returned to Po- Sent to staff officer’s school, he remained study by IQS found the main reason given by Poles for is to test an innovative solu- land, then under Russian domination, and in the army until the Treaty of Riga was limiting meat intake was concern over antibiotics fed to tion — a ferrofluid flywheel. was drafted into the Czarist Army. He served signed. animals. Avoiding meat for ethical reasons was also be- in the field artillery and later played the bari- See “Satellite,” page 2 coming more common in Poland. tone horn in the army band. 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