Polish Nobelist Passes away
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) – “Slowly, because not until after reaching ninety, the doors opened for me and I walked out into the clarity of the morning (…) and I said that we are all children of the Lord. Because we come from where there is no divide between Yes and No, nor the division into Is, […]
Warsaw Uprising Sixty Years Later Irresponsible Brawl or Heroic Rise for Liberty?
How many of us realize that the Warsaw Uprising stands as one of the biggest battles of World War II? This unprecedented Battle for Warsaw claimed 18 thousands lives of the Home Army soldiers and about 200,000 civilian lives on the Polish side, and about 17 thousands lives on the German side. According to Heinrich […]
Three capitals of Poland
I do not think that this title is overdone. The inside of the Cultural Center has been transformed, continually gaining beauty and functionality. The place of special importance for Center’s members and friends is the banquet hall, transformed to a ballroom through renovations. Utilized in many ways, it becomes a literary salon, a discussion forum, […]
Twentieth Century Changes
In The Clarinet Polka, a novel about Polish Americans in a town very similar to Wheeling, West Virginia, the author Keith Maillard describes an encounter between two Polish Americans. The son of a working class Polish family living in the town’s Polish neighborhood pays a visit to a family that arrived after World War II […]
Growing up Polish
We refer to ourselves as Americans of Polish origin. My sister and I were born in the United States, whereas our older brother was born in Belgium where our parents had completed their university studies after the Second World War. We not only grew up speaking Polish at home, our parents taught us to read […]