“The Soviet Story” – Video Documentary
“The Soviet Story” is a startling document of cooperation with the Gestapo, the NKVD before the year 1941. The film tells the story of Soviet domestic terror, the killing of its citizens “on an industrial scale, artificially induced by the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) of a murder at Katyn.
Dr. Jerzy J. Maciuszko – Ambassador of Polish Culture
From Plain Dealer: http://blog.cleveland.com/poland/2008/04/dr_jerzy_maciuszko_the_most_se.html From “Saving Private Ryan” to “Inglourious Basterds”, there have been plenty of tales told in our popular culture about the exploits of World War II soldiers, as portrayed by stars such as Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt. Much less well-known is the story of a humble Northeast Ohio witness to the […]
A Child’s View of the Warsaw Uprising
As part of the European Union program, „Europe for Citizens”, the Museum of the City of Warsaw has published an anthology of writings in Polish, English, and German. Below is an abbreviated version of the story of an eleven-year-old girl. Our family was intact at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (my parents must have […]
LESS IMPORTANT EXTERMINATION – Oversimplifying and Altering History
On the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the world once again failed to recognize the Polish victims of the Nazi concentration camps. Instead, frequent remarks about “Polish concentration camps” once again reminded us of the extent of distortions and bias against the Polish cause in World War II that appears to be ever […]
Polish Engineer Revolutionizes the Jet Engine
One day towards the end of last year, I read in the Plain Dealer that Professor Wiesław Binienda, Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron, was recognized by NASA for his achievements in the area of composite materials and their application to jet engines. At first, I did not recognize the […]