Janusz Korczak: Legacy, Pedagogy, Children’s Rights
Friday, November 9, 2018, 9am–6pm Columbia University, International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St, Rm 1219
09
11.2018
History, Polish-Jewish Relations
President Andrzej Duda and Survivors will pay tribute to a Polish diplomat who saved more than 800 Jews
Polish Consul Konstanty Rokicki and his colleagues from the so-called Lados Group helped to save from the Holocaust more than 800 Jews who came from the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, Slovakia and other European countries in 1942–43. At least twenty of the Survivors are still alive. On 9 October, a new tombstone honoring Consul Rokicki will be unveiled at a cemetery in Lucerne. President Andrzej Duda and several dozen Survivors, their families and the Rescuers’ descendants will take part in the unveiling ceremony.
09
10.2018
History, Polish-Jewish Relations
70th anniversary of the death of Captain Witold Pilecki
Seventy years ago, Witold Pilecki was murdered in the prison on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw. He was a Polish officer, a member of the Polish Underground State, the only voluntary prisoner of the Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz as well as the author of the so-called Pilecki Reports.
25
05.2018
History, Polish-Jewish Relations