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21.02.2020Wolves Summit — meet 450+ start-ups, 250+ investors and 450+ corporate representativesWolves Summit is an international conference for start-ups, investors, and corporates. It focuses on networking and facilitating business development. The upcoming 11th edition will take place on: 24-25 March 2020 in Warsaw, Poland
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20.02.2020The gen. Anders Programme by NAWAScholarships for the Polish diaspora are addressed to foreigners of Polish origin. They enable young people of Polish origin and holders of the Card of the Pole (Karta Polaka) to study in Poland (full-time programmes, in the Polish language) in higher education institutions supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Applications deadline is 16 March 2020.
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19.02.2020 WellingtonResearch presentation on the Polish identityRenata Vickrey, Archive Librarian and Prof. Ben Tyson, Department of Communication from Central Connecticut State University presented their research findings upon the assessment of the determinants of Polish identity among first and second-generation New Zealand-born individuals of Polish descent.
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14.02.2020Second World War Museum's representatives visit New ZealandDelegation from the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk, including the Director dr Karol Nawrocki, visited New Zealand. The director gave a public lecture at the National Library and held a series of meetings with representatives of New Zealand cultural institutions. Meetings with the Polish Diaspora and film notations with witnesses of history were of special importance.
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12.02.2020Public Lecture & Exhibition "Fighting and Suffering"In the year of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Polish Embassy together with the National Library of New Zealand invite you to a special public lecture on the Second World War by Mr Karol Nawrocki, PhD, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland "The Beginning of Evil. Fighting and Suffering".
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07.02.2020 WaitangiWaitangi Day 2020 commemorationsPolish Ambassador Zbigniew Gniatkowski participated in the official commemorations of Waitangi Day. This year marks the 180th anniversary of the signing of Waitangi Treaty by the British Crown and Maori tribe, which is seen as the founding document of New Zealand.
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28.01.202075th anniversary of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp liberationThe main observations of the 75th liberation anniversary of the World War Two Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz were held on January 27th on the camp's memorial site in southern Poland.
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24.01.2020The truth that must not die. The President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of AuschwitzRead the Polish President Andrzej Duda's message on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.
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30.12.2019Statement by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz MorawieckiThe 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the deaths of hundreds of millions in the name of twisted, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes and whose pact started World War II - the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.
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06.12.2019Special publication in the Year of Gustaw Herling-GrudzinskiOn Friday, 6 December a special multi-lingual publication was launched with the excerpts from the book “A World Apart: The journal of a Gulag Survivor” by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński. The publication in Polish, English, Italian, Hebrew and Te Reo Māori was prepared in collaboration with the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, Victoria University of Wellington.