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 [...]
Chicago Sun-Times Wed, 13 May 2009 08:25 AM PDT
In April of 1940, on orders from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, more than 4,000 Polish army officers were killed by the Soviet secret police and buried in a Katyn Forest mass grave. Their slaughter became known as the Katyn Forest Massacre. That same month, thousands of other [...]
Dir. Andrzej Wajda, Poland 2007
Acclaimed Polish director and winner of a lifetime achievement Academy Award, Andrzej Wajda has created an epic and personal tale about one of WWII’s notorious cover-ups. In the village of Katyn in May 1940, the Soviet army brutally murdered 15,000 Polish POWs, to crush Polish hopes for future independence. For 50 [...]
The Polish Arts and Culture Foundation
And
The Polish Cultural Club of Rossmoor
Cordially invites you to share a Traditional Polish Christmas Meal
On Saturday, December 19th , 2009 from 11:00am to 3:00pm
In the beautifully decorated and elegant Dollar Club House
in Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, CA.
Catering by Krystyna Tulik and Feliks Janiszewski,
formerly of Old Krakow Restaurant in [...]