Poland in Qatar

On November 22-23 this year, dr Rafal Mlynski from the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, prepared and led demonstration lessons, workshops for parents and methodical training for teachers – volunteers at the Polish School in Qatar at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Doha.

On 18 November the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Janusz Janke, visited the headquarters of Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company.

On November 15 the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Doha, in cooperation with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO), invited Wojciech Waleczek, an internationally renowned Polish pianist, to perform Fryderyk Chopin’s piano concerto no.1.

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.”

On Friday 27th of September, Mr.Tomasz Majewski, vice president of Polish Athletic Association and guardian of our representation at the 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships, was a guest at the Polish School of Qatar.

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.