National Independence Day of the Republic of Poland
11.11.2021
On the occasion of Poland's Independence Day, Chargé d'Affaires Natalia Piotrowska, Consul of the Republic of Poland in Romania Jarosław Szkirpan and Deputy Defense Military, Naval and Air Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Piotr Władzimiruk laid a wreath under the plaque commemorating Marshal Józef Piłsudski in the Ioanid Park in Bucharest.
On the 11th November 1918, after 123 years of oppression, that resulted from three consecutive partitions of our country, Poland regained its independence. The date of 11th November corresponds to other countries' Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, or Veterans Day. All of these holidays and Poland’s Independence Day are related, because they all emerged from the circumstances at the end of World War I. In other countries, commemorations were established in the spirit of grief and horror at the enormous human cost of the war, and they mark the sacrifices of those who fought. For Poland, this date has also additional, tremendously important meaning: the restoration of a sovereign Polish state. The Polish holiday is therefore simultaneously a celebration of the reemergence of a free Poland and a commemoration of those who fought for it.
Embassy of Poland in Romania
