So important to the Polish nation were these Catholic observances that the Soviet-installed communist regime did not dare abolish them. It only renamed All Saints Day the “Holiday of the Dead” (Święto ...
An unusual occurrence started a long-lasting friendship between two political figures. One was the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), and the second, a famous musician and ...
CHICAGO: The 47th Polish American Heritage Awards Banquet was organized by the Polish American Congress on October 30th, 2016. Charlie Wojciechowski, NBC TV, Chicago was the Master of Ceremony with ...
Gary T. Johnson Announces “Museums Work for Chicago” Campaign at City Club Luncheon CHICAGO – Nov. 5, 2009 – Fourteen museums and zoos in the Chicago region are collaborating to raise public awareness ...
The biggest holiday in Poland of the autumn season is All Saints’ Day called Wszystkich Swietych, celebrated on NOVEMEBR 1st. All Saints’ Day is a holy day which has been celebrated in Poland and the ...
Galicia no longer exists. It disappeared from the map of Europe in 1918 together with the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, whose province it had been. Yet, it still lives as a imagined space in the ...
One of seminal events of the Holocaust occurred on November 9-10, 1938 when the Nazis enacted Kristallnacht, a series of organized pogroms against German and Austrian Jews. Not content with burning ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A unique public art installation from award-winning artist Sofia Valiente will open in Downtown West Palm Beach just west of the Palm Beach County Convention Center over ...
Whenever I visit cemeteries with American guests, I hear the same questions repeated: why aren’t our ancestors’ graves here, what happened to them, are there lists of old burials, how deep are the ...
November 1st and 2nd have for centuries been celebrated by Catholics world-wide, and Poland (together with some Romance-language nations) has observed it with particular devotion. The custom came over ...
Pro-Harris Polonians resort to Putin fear-mongering Leaders of Pennsylvania’s Polish community have penned a letter to The Keystone, a regional news site, warning that Donald Trump would allow Russia ...
Pożegnaliśmy w tym roku wielu wspaniałych ludzi, przedstawicieli różnych środowisk. Tych znanych i tych nieznanych. Wiele z nich opuściło naszą przestrzeń życiową już na zawsze. Wszystkich Świętych, a ...
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