Posts by Gene Sokolowski
The Constitutions of Poland and of the United States, by Joseph Kasparek-Obst
(For professors, college students, high-school students and teachers, and interested adults.) This well-structured work explores the historical and intellectual connections between Poland’s Constitution of May 3, 1791, and the U.S. Constitution of 1787, and places both constitutions within the lineage of constitutional thought. Kasparek-Obst begins by situating the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, which…
Read MoreRussians Removed Bas-Reliefs of Polish Military Decorations in Katyn
Russians Removed Bas-Reliefs of Polish Military Decorations in Katyn Polish War Cemetery in Katyn Photo: Aleksandr Medvedkov/Shutterstock At the request of the Russian prosecutor’s office, the bas-reliefs of the Virtuti Militari Order and the September Campaign Cross commemorative medal were removed from the Polish War Cemetery in Katyn. The Polish ambassador to Russia, Krzysztof Krajewski,…
Read MorePolish Sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz Showcased in Paris
A 2019 exhibition of work by Magdalena Abakanowicz at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, south of Warsaw. Photos: Danuta Isler/Radio Poland An exhibition of works by Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz recently opened at the Bourdelle Museum in Paris. It is the first major presentation of Abakanowicz’s oeuvre, organized eight years after the artist’s…
Read MorePoland Approves Agreement Allowing US Military to Employ Local Civilian Staff
U.S. soldiers conduct C-UAS training using BSB drone detection technology at a military training area in Nowa Dęba, southeastern Poland, 18 November 2025.Photo: PAP/Darek Delmanowicz Poland’s parliament has passed a law approving an executive agreement with the United States that regulates the employment of Polish civilian staff by American forces stationed in the country. Under…
Read MoreU.S. Ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, Invalidates a Longstanding Slanderous Accusation
Thomas (Tom) Rose, the new U.S. Ambassador to Poland and a Jewish-American, presented his perspective about Poland and the Poles that is rare among Jews around the world. Ambassador Rose pointed out that Poland and the Polish people have long been wrongly accused by the Jewish community of sharing responsibility for Germany’s genocide of Polish…
Read MoreKaz: War, Love, and Betrayal, by Bogdan Kotnis
(For young readers unfamiliar with this Polish military leader and his contributions to winning the American Revolutionary War.) Kaz: War, Love, and Betrayal is an historical novel that follows the factual exploits of General Kazimierz Pulaski, who fought the Russians in Poland and then led cavalry soldiers in the fight against the British in the…
Read MorePolish Air Force – Hand in Hand with U.S.A., Poster by W. Guranowski
Designed in 1944 by K. Meyer and printed in London for the Polish Government Information Center and the Polish Army Education Bureau, this striking wartime poster celebrates the partnership between the Polish Air Force and the United States. Against a confident portrait of a smiling Polish pilot—one of the thousands who continued the fight for…
Read MorePoland’s Warriors of the Air, Poster by Władysław Teodor Benda
Created in 1939 by the Polish-American artist Władysław Teodor Benda, Poland’s Warriors of the Air was issued by the Polish War Relief organization to rally support for Poland at the outset of World War II. The image powerfully bridges Poland’s past and present: a winged horseman—evoking the legendary seventeenth-century Winged Hussars—charges through the sky above…
Read MoreOver 200 Concentration Camps and Ghettos in Poland, Poster by W. Guranowski
This World War II–era poster, titled “Over 200 Concentration Camps and Ghettos in Poland” was created by the artist W. Guranowski and issued in New York by the Polish Government Information Center (also known as the Polish Information Center). The large silkscreen design—depicting hands grasping barbed wire and listing grim statistics about German atrocities—formed part…
Read MorePoland – First to Fight, Poster by Marek Zulawski, ca. 1940
History and Design This powerful wartime poster was created by Marek Żuławski (1908–1985), a Polish painter and graphic artist who settled in London before World War II. Produced around late 1939 or early 1940 under the auspices of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, it was distributed primarily through the Polish Information Centre in London and…
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