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FREE CHRISTMAS CARDS WITH NEW GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONSPOLISH AMERICAN — JOURNALPAGE 24 • NOVEMBER 2014 www.polamjournal.com 1 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN Thank You for OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY Your Service JOURNALDEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE VETERAN’S DAY ESTABLISHED 1911 NOVEMBER 2014 • VOL. 103, NO. 11 | $2.00 www.polamjournal.com NOVEMBER 11 FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IN POLAND • STOROZYNSKI TAKES ON BECK • 1954: THE YEAR OF TOSKI AND FURGOL POLISH AMERICANS RALLY FOR UKRAINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE • ALL SOULS’ JAZZ FESTIVAL — ZADUSZKI JAZZOWE ST. JOSAPHAT’S REOPENS • BARITONE MARIUSZ KWIECIEŃ WOWS CHICAGO • NOVEL SIX FOR STREMPEK SHEA Notions, hints, NEWSMARK “Na świecie jeszcze, lecz już nie dla świata” suggestions, symbols, customs POLAND ARRESTS ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPIES. (Re- and artifacts uters) Two men, a lieutenant-colonel and lawyer, were indicted on charges of spying for Russia in Warsaw. The charges come at a time of increasing tension between the Enriching two nations stemming from Russia’s annexation of Crimea. A high-ranking military offi cer and a lawyer who holds Christmas both Russian and Polish citizenship were charged with es- pionage in Poland, Oct. 17. Both men were then sent to with prison to await trial. Although prosecutors were reluctant to name which country the men were accused of spying for, Heritage? Polish parliamentarian Marek Biernacki referred to the un- identifi ed lieutenant-colonel and the Warsaw-based lawyer by Robert Strybel as “two agents of the Russian state.” Tradition or commercial- “This was defi nitely a successful shot aimed at GRU,” ism? That is the question! Biernacki added, using the common acronym for Russia’s And Christmastime is a good Main Intelligence Directorate. time to ask it. The following The offi cer worked for the Polish Ministry of Defense, listing has been compiled to according to the country’s Internal Security Agency. A show how elements of our military prosecutor clarifi ed that the offi cer was indicted ancestral heritage can con- for “collaborating with a foreign intelligence service ... and tribute to a richer, deeper, more meaningful celebration passing on sensitive information.” STILL IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF THE WORLD. A line from Adam Mickiewicz’s “Dziady” of Yuletide. The men were arrested in simultaneous raids, Oct. 15,. (“Forefather’s Eve”) describes the atmosphere in Polish graveyards on All Saints’ and All There was no proof the men were working in tandem. Souls’ Days. In the evening, cemeteries are decorated in the glowing, flickering, colorful dvent is a time of lights of countless candles. Everybody is there to celebrate, to pray, and to participate in spiritual preparation EXAMINATION CONFIRMS CHOPIN’S CAUSE OF church services. See page 4 for more about this tradition. DEATH. The preserved heart of composer Frederic Chopin Afor Christmas. More contains signs of tuberculosis and possibly some other lung frequent prayer, attending disease, medical experts said, corroborating the Polish mu- Chemical Attraction Roraty (Advent Morning sician’s 1849 death certifi cate. Mass) if available in your Chopin died in Paris at the age of 39. His remains rest Carnegie-Mellon’s Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski area and doing good deeds there, but — in keeping with a Romanticism-era practice Changed the Way Plastics and Synthetics Are Made for the needy are all ways to — his heart was brought to Warsaw, where he grew up, and prepare. It is also the time is kept as a national relic inside a pillar at The Holy Cross PITTSBURGH — Krzysz- tive new spouse doesn’t know PolAm parishes and clubs Church. Held in two cases and a sealed crystal glass jar, tof (Kris) Matyjaszewski may she’s there. Krysztof is sit- hold pierogi sales, fi sh fries, the heart was inspected in April by forensic and genetic be the most famous Pole you ting on the sand, completely herring suppers and opłatek experts to check the state of the preservation. One of them, do not know. A world re- absorbed in a book for days dinners as well as Christmas geneticist Michal Witt, said the heart is “much enlarged, nowned chemist from humble now. Malgosia glares at the bazaars and bake sales allow- suggesting respiratory problems linked to a lung disease, beginnings, he is rumored to thick polymer chemistry text. ing people to stock up for Wi- and bears TB nodules.” be in line for a Nobel Prize. If How can she not be annoyed? gilia. (This year Advent starts He would not, however, speculate on what other disease you really want to know him, Her new husband has been on November 30th.) the frail and frequently ailing Chopin could have suffered talk to his wife, Malgosia. spending their honeymoon from. Some say it started at the with the book’s author, re- ntroducing the kindly Chopin is considered Poland’s greatest composer, fa- Polish seaside some forty nowned Polish-born scientist old bishop Saint Nicho- mous around the world for his piano nocturnes, preludes years ago as Malgosia Ma- Michael Szwarc, rather than las (Święty Mikołaj) to tyjaszewska peers at her new with his new wife. I and other works for the piano. your parish, club or family is husband. The bubbly univer- Although she’s always a good way to remind young- BOMBER LIFTED FROM BALTIC BOTTOM. A U.S. sity student, at 20, is thrilled known Kris as an excellent sters that the real St. Nick is World War II bomber was raised from the bottom of the to be on her honeymoon. Un- student, he’s never acted like neither an elf from the North MATYJASZEWSKI Baltic Sea, seventy years after it crashed in northern Po- fortunately, her usually atten- See “Matyjaszewski,” page 3 See “Enriching ...” page 15 land, near Gdansk. The Douglas A-20 bomber was fi rst sighted last year during routine checks about four miles off Cape Rozewie, the northernmost point in Poland. Crime Scene Investigations Po Polsku Raising the plane “... was a very ambitious challenge, A Conversation with Dr. Andrzej Ossowski and Milena Bykowska requiring specialist knowledge, experience and the precise on the Polish Genetic Base of Totalitarianism Victims coordination of the project team,” said said Iwona Pomian, chief of research of Gdansk’s National Maritime Museum. by John Grondelski overran Poland in the 20th The Polish Navy assisted in the endeavor. 75 years ago, Poland suf- century. The project began on The bomber, which is in remarkably good condition, fered two coordinated, simul- the basis of a September 28, will be transported to the Aviation Museum in Krakow, taneous totalitarian attacks: 2012 agreement between the where research and conservation will be undertaken. Nazi Germany and Soviet Institute of National Memory Russia. After six years of Ger- (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej) CHARMING DISCOVERY. A meteorite was discovered man and 45 years of Russian and the Pomeranian Medical among a large group of sacral objects in a remains of a occupation, Poland remains University in Szczecin (Po- Neolithic hut in Bolkow, northwest Poland, and may have littered with the bodies of morski Uniwersytet Medyc- been used for shamanic purposes, say academics. their victims. Tell us some- zny w Szczecinie). Our team Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology and thing about the extent of the has been involved in this kind Ethnology in Szczecin found items including an amulet; a human victimization of the of work for many years. The so-called “magic staff,” fashioned from antlers and deco- German and Russian occupa- victims which we identify are rated with geometrical motifs; and an engraved bone spear. tions. primarily representatives of They were made about 9,000 years ago. The Polish Genetic Base the Polish intelligentsia. “The meteorite was brought to the hut as an object of Totalitarianism Victims DR. ANDRZEJ OSSOWSKI examines an artifact, which of special signifi cance, because it came ’from another (Polska Baza Genetyczna In some sense, uncover- hopefully will lead to the discovery of a victim, or provide ad- world’,” Professor Tadeusz Galinski told the Polish Press Ofi ar Totalitarzymów. PB- ing the victims of Nazism and ditional information to one already in the group’s database. Agency. GOT) was established to Communism seems to pose PBGOT is a project based on the most modern technologies The meteorite is about three inches high and two inches identify victims of the two different tasks: the Germans used in genetics, and has proven invaluable in identifying wide at the base. totalitarian regimes which See “Crime ...” page 4 those murdered by Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • NOVEMBER 2014 ALMANAC JUST BETWEEN US / Mark Kohan Wałęsa Loses Street in San Francisco Follow us on Facebook or visit us Omission is Reminder of Pepetual Distortion on the internet at: polamjournal.com It is rare to have an idle hour at out this clarification, anyone not “After the War, most Polish Jews our office, but a few came up last familiar with the history of Jews in were killed and the ones who didn’t, November Q Listopad month, and we were able to sort Poland would assume the acts she fled,” she wrote. “For good reason, “You cannot hope to build a bet- boxes of newspaper clippings and described were committed by Poles. Jewish people did not want to live in ter world without improving the magazines sent to us by our readers. We can only hope this not inten- a place where they had been exter- individuals. To that end each of us In that mix was the April 1, 2014 tional. Katzman, a college senior minated and harmed.” must work for his own improvement, edition The Trinity Tripod, the stu- (and former Hillel president) dem- We find it hard to believe Kassow and at the same time share a general dent newspaper of Trinity College onstrated a lack knowledge, and did not teach his charges that the po- responsibility for all humanity.” in Hartford, Conn.

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