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 easier to create.

The organization he founded in Poland in 1990, Stowarzyszenie Wspolnota Polska, enabled hundreds of other Polonia organizations around the world to communicate and interact to better showcase poland’s heritage, and future possibilities.

Professor Stelmachowski’s ready smile and warm handshake were all that anyone needed to know that this gesture was as good as his word and mutual cooperation was guaranteed. Of late, Wspolnota Polska has been relentlessly working to save Poland’s roots in the Ukraine, Belarus and the other northern Russian regions which were once Polish. They accept monetary donations as well as books for students living in those regions, to replace those destroyed by the Russian civic groups attempting to eradicate any Polish tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Stelmachowski