Poland in US

In observance of the Feast of Corpus Christi, all Polish diplomatic missions in the U.S. will be closed tomorrow, June 11th.

Seventy five years after the end of the Second World War, we pay tribute to its victims. We remember the indomitable struggle of the Polish nation against Nazi Germany throughout the conflict in Europe, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945.

Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2020, we pay tribute to the victims and to all soldiers who fought to defeat Nazi Germany and put an end to the Holocaust.

On 5 May 1945, at 5 p.m., American troops crossed the gates of the German concentration camp Gusen. The main Mauthausen camp was liberated the same day, while the remaining satellite camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen camp system were freed in late April and early May.

Adopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.

From April 23 to May 2, 2020, a 9-person Polish medical mission from the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw (WIM) will be in Chicago as part of the Illinois–Poland National Guard Partnership, created in 1993. The Polish medical team, which has extensive experience in intensive care, cardiology, nursing care and emergency medicine, will observe, advise and assist in Chicago's medical facilities.

Today in the Italian daily La Repubblica, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki published an article about the challenge posed by the coronavirus epidemic for Europe. Below you can find the English translation of the article.

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

Easter Monday is an official holiday in Poland. On this day, which falls on April 13 this year, Polish diplomatic missions will be closed.

Krzysztof Penderecki, one of Poland’s greatest contemporary composers who created his own musical language by fusing together avant-garde and traditional elements, has passed away at the age of 86. He composed the “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” for string orchestra, the choral “St. Luke Passion” and “Polish Requiem,” as well as the “Seven Gates of Jerusalem” symphony.