In a series of mass executions in April and May 1940, Soviet secret police murdered an estimated 22,000 captive Polish military officers and soldiers, policemen, officials, intelligentsia and others. Conducted on the orders of Stalin’s Politburo, the events came to be known as the Katyn massacre after the Katyn Forest where the first mass graves …
Odsłonięcie nowych tabliczek z nazwiskami osób ratujących Żydów na tzw. Ścianie Pamięci w Muzeum Polaków Ratujących Żydów podczas II wojny światowej im. Rodziny Ulmów w Markowej k. Łańcuta w 2019r. (fot. arch.PAP/Darek Delmanowicz).
Polish scientists have analysed an enzyme that could become a key to creating a cure against COVID-19.The team by professor Marcin Drąg from the Wrocław University of Technology said that the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease enzyme catalyses the breakdown of proteins in the virus. Image: Maciej Kulczyński/PAP
Professor Katherine Kedzierska at the University of Melbourne has found that our immune system responds to coronavirus in the same way it does when trying to fight the flu. Image by University of Melbourne. Credit: thefirstnews.com
Informacje dla obywateli polskich przebywających czasowo w USA w związku z sytuacją epidemiologiczną. Image by jorono from Pixabay
28 lutego 2020 roku w biurze Konsulatu Honorowego RP przy World Trade Center w St. Louis miała miejsce uroczystość odznaczenia pana Zdzisława Gulińskiego Krzyżem Wolności i Solidarności – polskim cywilnym odznaczeniem państwowym nadawanym działaczom opozycji antykomunistycznej działającym w latach PRL. Odznaczenia pana Gulińskiego dokonał Konsul Generalny RP w Chicago, pan Piotr Janicki, który specjalnie w …
On March 5th, 1940, the Soviet Politburo decided to shoot Polish prisoners of war, as well as Polish prisoners held by the NKVD in the pre-war eastern provinces of Poland. Image: The memo from NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria to Stalin sealed the fate of over 20,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia. Credit: Public domain/PAP.
A Polish laboratory diagnostics company is attempting to register a rapid screening test which can detect signs of coronavirus within 10 minutes. Credit: www.thefirstnews.com. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
Prezentujemy 20 etiud filmowych przedstawiających żołnierzy polskiego podziemia antykomunistycznego. Polish: „Żołnierze Niezłomni. Żołnierze Wyklęci” – cykl etiud filmowych We present 20 film etudes depicting soldiers of the Polish anti-communist underground, English: Indomitable Soldiers Pro-Independence Underground – a series of film etudes Photograph from the archives of Solidarność Walcząca, Poland. Source: http://swkatowice.mojeforum.net/post-vp19170.html
Looking to the future. Polish women are strongly represented in the world of science. Image: Kalbar/TFN.
The US government wants to donate one billion dollars to energy projects due to be implemented within the Three Seas Initiative, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced during the World Security Conference in Munich.
On January 21, 2020 United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to Poland to visit Auschwitz where her delegation was hosted by the speakers of both houses of the Polish parliament. Her Press Release then omit the Polish victims, although they were the first sent to Auschwitz, and constituted the second largest group killed there. …
In January 2020, a number of news media outlets reported on the two foremost commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The first commemoration took place in Jerusalem, Israel, and the second took place in Oświęcim, Poland.
We are experiencing a period of increased interest in the matter of the extermination of Jews during World War II and unprecedented increase in accusations of Poles for participating in this extermination. Image: Professor Piotr Witakowski; credit: wpolityce.pl
Szanowni Państwo Prezesi i Zarządy Organizacji Polonijnych, Konsulat Generalny RP w Chicago uprzejmie zachęca organizacje i instytucje polonijne do aktywności na rzecz zwiększenia uczestnictwa Polaków i Amerykanów polskiego pochodzenia w spisie ludności „Census 2020” we wszystkich miejscowościach, powiatach i stanach chicagowskiego okręgu konsularnego tj. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Dakota Północna, Dakota Południowa i Wisconsin. …
“The Sejm of the Republic of Poland condemns the provocative and untrue statements by representatives of the highest authorities of the Russian Federation attempting to hold Poland liable for the Second World War. A nation’s greatness and international relations may not be built upon lies and by falsifying history,” reads the resolution adopted by acclamation …
