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Recording of an interview with a Warsaw Uprising veteran
available for streaming in English
A Radio
Wisla interview in English with George Gordon (Jerzy Budzynski),
a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising is available from Radio Wisla
archives. Please check
interview with George Gordon
More:
Radio Wisla |
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Local events commemorating the
60 Anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
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October 3:
the University of Washington -
lecture |
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October 2
the Seattle Central Library - lecture, documentary film
screening, book exhibition, ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Seattle
City Hall
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Sep 23 - Oct 7
the Seattle City
Hall - documentary
exhibition
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September 19 the Polish
Home - concert and book exhibition |
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Sep 10-19
Polish Home
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Oct 3, 7 pm:
Warsaw Rising 44: Prof. Chodakiewicz
lectures at UW
Prof.
Chodakiewicz will lecture on the
historical and political context of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising at the
University of
Washington. Prof.
Chodakiewicz is a guest of the UW Polish
Studies Endowment Fund Committee.
Dr. Chodakiewicz is a professor
of Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. He is the man
behind the recent very successful CNN documentary about the Warsaw
Uprising featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski and Norman Davies.
More. Prof. Chodakiewicz was also a consultant for the
exhibition about the Uprising that is on display at the Seattle
City Hall.
Interesting link:
An
article by Prof. Chodakiewicz occasioned by the interest of CNN in
making a documentary about the Rising (pdf file, 21 pages)
Where:
At the Kane Hall on the
University of Washington
campus; admission free.
Oct 2, 2 - 4 pm : Warsaw
Rising 44: the CNN documentary about the Uprising and a public
lecture at the Seattle Central Library
Oct 2, 1 pm:
book exhibition
63 Days and Nights at the Seattle Central
Library
The movie is
the recent excellent CNN documentary on the Warsaw Uprising. Prof.
Marek Chodakiewicz will have a public
lecture on the historical and political context of the Uprising
and on making the movie. Prof.
Marek Chodakiewicz.
is “the man behind the movie”—he was the main consultant for the
CNN documentary on the Uprising (featuring former national
security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
and historian Norman Davies), as well as a consultant for the
documentary exhibition in
Seattle. This event has been organized by
the Polish Home Foundation and also supported by the Seattle
Public Library and UW Polish Studies Endowment Fund Committee.
Interesting link:
An
article by Prof. Chodakiewicz occasioned by the interest of CNN in
making a documentary about the Rising (pdf file, 21 pages)
Where: at
the Microsoft Auditorium,
Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle, at the
4th Ave floor; admission free.
More:
Ryszard Kott
The book exhibition
63 Days and Nights
features books and albums as well as films in English and Polish about
the Uprising with an advice how to obtain them. The exhibition has been
organized by Hanna Gil of the Polish Book Club and is supported by the
Polish Home Foundation. The Foundation plans to donate books and DVDs to
Seattle
libraries to help educate American public about the Warsaw Uprising of
1944 and asks for donations supporting this goal.
Where:
at the upper floor of the
Polish Home,
admission free
More:
Hanna Gil,
PHF
website,
Polish Book Club
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Eugeniusz Lokajski, the
1944 Warsaw Uprising soldier and photographer (with a little kitten) |
Looking at the burning
"Pasta" building. (photo. E. Lokajski) |
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Sep 23 – Oct 7:
Warsaw
Rising 44: Documentary exhibition at the
Seattle City Hall
The same
exhibition that goes on display at the Polish Home first is
presented at the main lobby of the City Hall and is easily available
for visiting. The main part of the documentary exhibition
Warsaw
Uprising 1944 consists of documentary photos, maps and
text describing the stages and circumstances of the extraordinary
63-day struggle. It also pays tribute to the American airmen who
died flying over Warsaw
in September 1944. The main exhibition has been commissioned by the
Polish Consulate in Los
Angeles and the additional exhibit prepared
by K. Poraj-Kuczewski. The exhibition has been organized by Ryszard
Kott and is supported by Polish Home Foundation, Seattle-Gdynia
Sister City Association and the City of
Seattle.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the City Hall
exhibition, Oct 2, 1:30 pm
The
ribbon-cutting ceremony
for the
documentary exhibition Warsaw Uprising 1944
with representatives of the City, Seattle-Gdynia
Sister City Association and Polish Home Foundation is scheduled for
1:30 pm.
The
exhibition at City Hall is also open to the public M–F, 8 am to 6
pm, September 23 – October
Where:
at the City Hall, 601 Fifth Ave,
admission free; City Hall is open M-F 8 am – 6 pm; it will also be
open on Sat, Oct 2, 1-5 pm, that is before and after the
movie/lecture at the Library.
More:
Ryszard Kott
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Sep 19, 1 pm, at the Polish Home:
book exhibition
63 Days and Nights,
Sep 19,
2 pm: Warsaw Rising 44: concert
This event organized by the Polish Home
Association celebrates the heroism of the Uprising through music and
poetry and
consists of three
parts:
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part
1: a concert of Polish patriotic songs by the Polish Song
Choir under direction of Anna Sawicki,
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part
2: a performance
We,
Warsaw Children Will Fight
for
You,
featuring poetry & songs in scenes from the Uprising by
the performance group
from the Polish Home in
Seattle under direction of
Barbara Strutynski,
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part
3:
a piano concert by Iwona Kaminska-Bowlby,
the local artist we all know. Ms. Kaminska-Bowlby will play Chopin
Sonata H moll op. 58 to honor the memory of her father, Jozef Kaminski
('Ziutek') who fought in the
Old
Town district of Warsaw
Where: at the
Polish Home, admission
free
More:
concert:
Barbara Strutynski, (425)
746-3037;
details of other events at the
PHF website.
The book exhibition
63 Days and Nights
features books and albums as well as films in English and Polish about
the Uprising with an advice how to obtain them. The exhibition has been
organized by Hanna Gil of the Polish Book Club and is supported by the
Polish Home Foundation. The Foundation plans to donate books and DVDs to
Seattle
libraries to help educate American public about the Warsaw Uprising of
1944 and asks for donations supporting this goal.
Where:
at the upper floor of the
Polish Home,
admission free
More:
Hanna Gil,
PHF
website,
Polish Book Club
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Sep 10-19,
Warsaw
Rising 44: Documentary exhibition at the
Polish Home
The main part of
the documentary exhibition
Warsaw
Uprising 1944 consists of documentary photos, maps and
text describing the stages and circumstances of the extraordinary
63-day struggle. It also pays tribute to the American airmen who
died flying over Warsaw
in September 1944. The main exhibition has been commissioned by the
Polish Consulate in Los
Angeles; the additional exhibit is prepared
by K. Poraj-Kuczewski. The exhibition has been organized by Ryszard
Kott and supported financially by the Polish Home Foundation.
Where:
at the Polish Home,
admission free
More:
Ryszard
Kott
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The BBC
radio broadcast about
Warsaw Uprising
Many readers
raved about the BBC broadcast
Red Runs the
Vistula aired on Sep 15.
I have listened to it as well and agree it was very good – I
wish I knew about it early enough to put it in the news.
More:
Red runs the Vistula |
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Norman
Davies
Rising '44: the battle for Warsaw available
Norman Davies is the author of several
excellent books on Polish history and a great friend of Poland.
His God’s Playground, A History of Poland is an obligatory
reading for anybody interested in Polish history, including the
Poles! The long awaited American edition of his latest book on the
1944 Warsaw Uprising, Rising ’44: the Battle for Warsaw, is
available since May 6, 2004 at
www.amazon.com and elsewhere. The book is certainly worth
reading before the 60th anniversary of the Uprising.
More:
(in Polish) www.davies.pl
(English):
Norman
Davies,
http://www.warsawuprising.com
"RISING '44: Betraying Warsaw", by Carlo d'Este, The New York
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Links
www.WarsawUprising.com - a comprehensive description of
the Warsaw Uprising with many maps and photographs
University of Buffalo list - a list of links devoted to the
1944 Warsaw Uprising: accounts of the events, historical analyses,
personal accounts, diaries, book reviews, memorials and museums,
"CNN presents".
The 1944 Warsaw Uprising Museum
website
CNN Documentary on
Warsaw Uprising
More than
200,000 people died in the Warsaw Uprising.
Warsaw Rising: the Forgotten Soldiers of World War II
is a special documentary about the Warsaw Uprising, Aug 1 – Oct 2,
1944. The program has been very well prepared by the CNN with
rare movie clips from
Warsaw
during the Uprising, testimonials from Uprising veterans and frank
commentary by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Norman Davies. The
documentary honors Polish underground soldiers and ordinary
Warsaw
citizens who in summer 1944 fought for 63 long days under Nazi
siege and lost. The program is a must for everybody who wants to
understand the depth of bitterness of Polish modern history and
Polish debates about the Uprising |
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