Merry Christmas!
With warm appreciation for your support, we wish you and your family Peace, Joy, Hope and Good Will this Christmas and throughout the New Year! - The Polish Museum of America
Tymoteusz Karpowicz – 100th anniversary of birth
Today we remember Polish poet, playwright, Tymoteusz Karpowicz. He was born Dec. 15, 1921, near Wilno, in Poland, and died June 29, 2005, in Oak Park, IL.
The 40th Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland
The wonder-filled months of 1981 in Poland when Polish factories, industrial sites, ports and airports, schools, and universities experienced the courage and enthusiasm of living out and expressing freedom came to a brutal halt.
The 116th anniversary of 1905 Nobel Literature Award
He was born into a modest noble family in Russian occupied Poland on May 5, 1846, in Wola Okrzejska, Poland.
80 Pearl Harbor Commemoration
On this day 80 years ago, just short of 8 am, the Japanese Imperial air force (Japan was a member of Hitler's Axis Alliance), attacked a quiet enclave of America called Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Polish November Uprising Commemoration
Late, on the night of November 29/30, 1830 Polish officers and cadets from the Warsaw Military Academy initiated one of its first national insurrections in modern Polish history.
Thanksgiving wishes from the PMA
We would like to wish you and your loved ones a bountiful and blessed Thanksgiving and hope that the spirit of gratitude remains in our hearts every day.
Franciszek Strynkiewicz’s death anniversary
On Nov. 20, 1996, Franciszek Strynkiewicz - Polish sculptor and pedagogue passed away at the age of 103.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski Birthday
November 6 is the 161 anniversary of the birthday of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Poland's greatest composer, and pianist after Frederick Chopin, who served as PM and Foreign Secretary in 1919.
103 years Anniversary of Polish Independence
November 11, 2021 marks the 103 anniversary of the restoration of Polish Independence after almost a century and a half of tri-Empire occupation and destruction.
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