Poland in the Netherlands

On October 30th President Duda held a series of interesting and fruitful meetings in The Hague and Rotterdam.

Starting from September 17, the Netherlands celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Operation Market Garden. A significant element of these events is commemorating the soldiers of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade of General Sosabowski (1st SBS).

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.

On 2 June 2024, a family picnic was held in The Hague to celebrate International Children's Day. The picnic was organised for the fifth time by the POLKA Foundation, one of the most active Polish associations in the Netherlands. The Polish Embassy in The Hague was a partner of the event.