Poland in US

The English translation of the Prime Minister's statement from December 29, 2019.

Ambassador Piotr Wilczek presented 96 year-old Robert J. Dole the Commander's Cross with a Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. The ceremony took place in the office of the long-serving, former Republican senator and congressman from Kansas.

Polish Righteous were honored at the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles.

DC’s prestigious Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre hosted the premiere of the one-act opera, “3 Paderewskis.”

One of the most famous artistic festivals in Poland returned to New York! Singer's Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture is an annual event organized by the Shalom Foundation in Warsaw in cities associated with Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. The closing event of this festival—a one-woman show, The Wall—took place at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City.

On November 11th, Poland officially joined the United States Visa Waiver Program.

“I can’t think of a more meaningful way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our diplomatic relations than by including Poland in the Visa Waiver Program,” remarked Ambassador Piotr Wilczek during the annual Independence Day festivities held in his Residence.

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC took part in the annual Kids Euro Festival, a cultural-educational initiative led by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States for children living in the DC metropolitan area.

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.