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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With regards to Łódż, I knew that at one time, after reforms carried out by Polish politician Mr. Wielopolski in the 19th century, Łódż became a textile center for central Europe, exporting its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the public to attend an open house Wednesday, November 3 at the Chicago District Office. Attendees will be able to learn more about ...

You are cordially invited to celebrate with us 100 years of Poland regaining its independence! Polish people all over the World are commemorating this very significant milestone in Poland’s 1000 years ...