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Founder and President for 38 years of The Polish Arts and Culture Foundation in San Francisco, recipient of numerous medals and commendations from Poland and the American government for her untiring promotion of Poland’s rich heritage. Her fervent patriotiotism, propelled by what she had endured in WW2,lived long enough to finally see Poland’s freedom from [...]

IUPAC has officially approved the name copernicium, with symbol Cn, for the element of atomic number 112. Priority for the discovery of this element was assigned, in accordance with the agreed criteria, to the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) (Center for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany. The team at GSI proposed the name copernicium which [...]

2010/02/18
LAUNCH OF THE CHOPIN YEAR
The Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, the place of burial of Chopin’s heart, will be the stage of the launch of the jubilee commemorations of the Chopin Year on February 21, 2010. The Holy Mass celebrated at 1 p.m. by His Excellency Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Primate of Poland, will mark the [...]

WARSAW, Poland – In the chilling final scene of “Katyn,” the new film from Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda, Soviet secret police execute one Polish army officer after another in a dank cellar, washing away the blood with buckets of water.
Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda recalls tragic, entwined fate of father and country The Canadian Press
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Robert Kubica takes maiden win in dramatic Canadian Grand PrixBMW Sauber finally took their long overdue maiden victory in Montreal on Sunday, as Robert Kubica led Nick Heidfeld home in a fabulous one-two on a day when early leader Lewis Hamilton inadvertently crashed his McLaren into Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in a pit-lane collision during the [...]

BALTIMORE (Map, News) – In a ceremony binding generation to generation, Polish Americans gathered at the Katyn Memorial on Sunday to remember thousands of lives lost in the World War II massacre of Polish army officers.
“We can never forget what happened to these people who were just murdered by communists,” said Richard Poremski, chairman of [...]

Professor Wojciech Cichy of the Medical University in Poznan has
confimed earlier allegations that Fryderyk Chopin’s death was not
caused by tuberculosis, as mentioned in the death certificate but
cystic fibrosis.
According to Professor Cichy, the presence of nodules on the surface
of the composer’s heart, cited in the autopsy report, could be a
symptom of the disease, which is a [...]

In today’s SF Chronicle is the announcement of the agreement reached between the city governments of San Francisco and Krakow to establish a sister-city relationship.  See attached and link below.
The ceremonies marking the establishment of the sister cities will take place in Krakow on July 3rd and later in the fall in San Francisco. Krakow [...]

It is with great sadness that we learned this week of the passing of Professor Andrzej Stelmachowski on April 6, 2009.
Professor Stelmachowski was a long-time friend and supporter of the work initiated by PACF Founder, Mme. Wanda Tomczykowska. Thanks to his network of associates and their resource materials,  many exhibits which the PACF showed, were [...]