By John Czop JERSEY CITY, NJ – KATYN FOREST MASSACRE MEMORIAL DAY was commemorated on Sunday, April 28, 2024 from 3 to 5 pm with approximately 300 in attendance. They squeezed into a tight space between the recently erected and unnecessary five foot wall in front of the Katyn Memorial and the base of sculptor Andrzej Pitynski’s massive bronze statue …
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By John Czop JERSEY CITY, NJ – On Sunday afternoon, April 7th, 2024, The Katyn Forrest Massacre Memorial Committee, Inc. held a commemoration of the murder, on Stalin’s orders, of approximately 22,000 Polish Army prisoners of war in Katyn Forest and other killing fields in the Western Soviet Union. This communist crime without punishment was perpetrated in April 1940, when …
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Dehnhard previously launched the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce, North East Westfield, NJ: Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C, announced that Karolina A. Dehnhard was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Union County. Ms. Dehnhard is a partner in Lindabury’s Divorce & Family Law Group and managing director of the International Law Group of the Westfield-based firm. Karolina Dehnhard has …
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NEW YORK – A decorated military veteran and law enforcement official who has dedicated his life to serving his town and his country, Patrick Chludzinski has been endorsed by the Erie County Republican and Conservative committees to run for the New York State Assembly in the 143rd district (Cheektowaga and Lancaster, and the Villages of Depew, Lancaster, and Sloan) Born …
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Ms. Diane Elaine Markoya, nee Czop, recently resumed playing the violin. In 1975, she graduated, with High Honors from Ridgewood High School, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where she played First Violin in the High School’s award winning orchestra. Photo: Diane with her Dziadek’s Violin and this writer at the Danbury Symphony Orchestra Concert of March 17, 2024. A 1979 B.S. …
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NEW YORK – The American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point (AAFKWPT) invite the Polish community to attend the annual General Tadeusz Kosciuszko events on Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th. First, an academic conference with morning and afternoon sessions will be held on Friday, May 3rd, beginning at 9 a.m. Participation in this conference requires …
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NEW YORK – After 4 years of being away (mostly due to COVID), Val’s Dyngus Day Weekend is BACK! It will be held Sunday, March 31st and Monday, April 1st, 2024. What makes it even better, we are back at the newly renovated M-Hotel Buffalo (formerly the Millennium Hotel) in Cheektowaga, NY. I would like to share with you what’s …
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Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley today announced he is taking four vital steps to immediately address overpayment issues customers and the agency have experienced. Commissioner O’Malley testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (excerpt): “For 88 years, the hard-working employees of the Social Security Administration have strived to pay the right …
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80th Anniversary of the Martyrdome of the Bl. Ulma Family WASHINGTON, D.C. – Join Rabbi Noam E. Marans, Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations at the American Jewish Committee (AJC), and Rev. Walter F. Kedjierski, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the USCCB, for a conversation on what it means to “commit ourselves to genuine …
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At Poland’s Consulate General in NYC By John Czop At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 approximately 70 Polish Americans from Metropolitan New York City met with six Deputies of the Sejm, the Lower House of Poland’s National Assembly, at the Polish Consulate located in the elegant De Lamar mansion in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. The following …
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