RESEARCHING YOUR POLISH ANCESTORS: MARCH 18, 2012

RESEARCHING YOUR POLISH ANCESTORS
   
MARCH 18, 2012 - 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. (SUNDAY)
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH
MEETRING RM A - 900 LIBRARY PLAZA, FT. WAYNE

To register please call 260-421-1225 or email:Genealogy@ACPL.Info

Kris Rzepczynski, librarian for the Library of Michigan, will be presenting on Sunday, March 18, 2012, Researching Your Polish Ancestors. Researchers interested in their Polish roots are faced with a unique set of challenges, from the langu...age to the infinite spelling variations and the shifting boundaries on the map. This program will explore these challenges, important American sources, both print and online, and research strategies that can shed light on your ancestral town in Poland. The lecture will be held in Meeting Room A from 1-2 pm. To register please call 260-421-1225 or email Genealogy@ACPL.Info

Link to event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/359185564094930/

2011 Wigilia Dinner - December 4, at 4:00 p.m.

OCTOBER IS POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH!

FWSCI Film Fest Thursday, October 13, 7:00 p.m. Polish movie night: Polish Food at 6:00 p.m. & Film “Testosteron” at 7:00 p.m. for more information: http://www.fortwaynesistercities.org/event.php

Lech Walesa to receive the 2012 Lincoln Leadership Award in Chicago, IL

Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland will be in Chicago Feb. 9 to receive the 2012 Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. The black-tie dinner will be at the Four Seasons Hotel. Walesa is the co-founder of the Solidarity trade-union movement and while president spearheaded the fall of communism in Poland and Eastern Europe. Wałęsa, electrician by trade, was a labor activist at the Lenin Shipyards. In 1980, Wałęsa helped negotiate Gdansk agreement and co-

founded Solidarność. In December, martial law was declaied, stopping the Solidarity movement and Wałęsa was arrested. In 1989, Wałęsa helped negotiate the Round Table Agreement that led to semi-free parliamentary elections and served as president of the Third Republic Poland from 1990 to 1995.

PNA 46th QUADRENNIAL NATIONAL CONVENTION

PNA 46th QUADRENNIAL NATIONAL CONVENTION

August 17-21, 2011 - Hyatt Regency Hotel - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Official Site     -     Candidates for Elective Offices     -    Marian J Nowacki

Jeff Wilenski - Candidate for District XV Commissioner

- PNA Member for 30 years
- Officer of Lodge 3149 for 11 years
- Lodge Treasurer for 4 years
- Lodge President for 7 years to present
- District XV Director 3 years to present

- District XV 2009 Leadership-Star Award

Jeff Wilenski has been an active member of the Polish National Alliance and White Eagle Lodge 3149 for the past thirty years. He has served as an Officer for the past eleven years. Has served three years to present as a District XV Director. Has served as Lodge Treasurer for four years and has been President of Lodge 3149 for the past seven years to present.

Mr. Wilenski is very active, shows enthusiasm and leadership in the Polish community, Polish and Polish-American organizations and to its members.  He looks forward to strengthening and empowering the Lodges in District XV, the Fraternalism of the PNA and the Polish and Polish-American Community.

Mr. Wilenskis objectives as Commissioner will be to set a precedence of Leadership, show ambition and strength, reestablish the greatness of the PNA and our fraternalism, to lead by example, educate new generations, to provide effective ways and means of communication to collectively work together in the District as a whole, have organization in the District and to provide stability and reestablish and build fraternalism in the Lodges and in District XV.

The PNA is a great organization. Let’s provide the avenue together to revitalize and strengthen our Lodges, District XV and our Organization, its goals, and fraternalism, to keep in our tradition, have enthusiasm and pride in belonging to the Polish National Alliance, being a member and to our Polish heritage and culture for us and for our future members and it's generations.

THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED TO PEOPLE LIKE US - Think!

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FOUR CONTINENTS TO FREEDOM

A biographical account of Millie Zygmunt Rytel's life. For over 60 years, Millie had kept her past private, she had not talked about it with anyone, even her own daughters. This is an important book about Mlilie's life that needs to be heard, about her persecution, determination and survival to make it from German occupied Poland to her Freedom in America.

At gunpoint, Russian soldiers force their way into the Walter Zygmunt house. They are herded into a cattle car, Millie Zygmunt, her parents and sisters are unloaded at a slave labor camp in Siberia. "The Devil," an ugly man, assigns jobs and sets quotas.

Millie Rytel is a very stong Polish woman and active Polish-American, a devoted member of the Polish National Alliance, President of Lodge 3095 and PNA Council 49 and a friend of mine who I respect dearly.

Contact me via Facebook or email to jwilenski@netscape.net about getting a personalized signed copy of her book.  View Millie Rytel inteview on Youtube.