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Pilsudski Institute of America in cooperation with a group "Polska Running Team" invites you to participate in the  memory run: “Wolf Trail. Remembrance Run in the memory of Cursed soldiers "- New York - February 28 (Sunday) at 12 o'clock noon, Forest Park, Queens, NY.

This is an international project coordinated by the Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Poland, whose aim is to pay tribute to the soldiers of the Polish underground anti-communist and anti-Soviet acting in the period 1944 - 1963 within the pre-war borders of Poland and the popularization of knowledge on this subject.

Details of the run - distance: 1963 meters, date: February 28, 2016 (Sunday) 12 o'clock noon, place: Forest Park, Queens, NY - meet at Forest Park Drive near the stadium, enter by car from Myrtle Ave. or Woodhaven Blvd. where parking is available, and go through Woodhaven Blvd toward the stadium. Access by public transport: M, R subway to Woodhaven Blvd. station, then bus: Q11, Q 21, QM15. All runers meet at 11 o'clock in the morning in Forest Park. Participants will receive T-shirts with images of "Cursed Soldiers " and commemorative medals.

Registaration is reguired by February 25, 2016:Children aged 5-12 - free with registered parentAdults and adolescents (13 years) - charge $ 25 per person (the fee includes: the cost of organizing the run, insurance and t-shirt). Please register online:

Following the registration please make a payment using the "Kup teraz" button below. 

You can register by mail sending the form and payment, or in person in the Institute

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Arrmy concentrations, Fonds No. 2, folder 9, p. 330.

Archival Fonds Nr. 2 Adjutancy - Commander in Chief have been added to the Institute Online Archive (total of 60 files, about 26 thousand pages). The fonds contains documents of the commander-in-chief and the Head of State, dated from November 1918 to December 1922. The fonds has been digitized in the years 2013-2015 by the volunteers and employees of the Institute. The grants to help with digitization were received from: Polish Senate vis the foundation Semper Polonia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Polish Consulate General in New York and The Józef Piłsudski National Heritage Foundation. In 2015 the project is co-sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the task “Cooperation with the Polish diaspora 2015”. We thank all the individual donors and the Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union for their contributions.

This year, for the first time in our history, the Pilsudski Institute of America was participating in "GivingTuesday". We would like to thank institutions and individuals for their generous donations to the Institute

On September 27 2015 the Pilsudski Institute was privileged to host the visit  of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The purpose of the visit was to meet members of the Institute’s Board of Directors and to see our collections. The President was shown the paintings and a selection of the most important documents from our archives. Dr Iwona Korga, the managing director, served as a guide, presenting a condensed history of our organization. Dr Magda Kapuścińska, the Institute’s president, welcomed the distinguished guest on behalf of the Board of Directors and introduced other members. Volunteers and friends of the Institute took part in the meeting. Mr. Duda was accompanied by several staff members of his Office, and by ministers Adam Kwiatkowski, Krzysztof Szczerski and Pawel Soloch. Dr Kapuścińska offered him a plaque with the image of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, while the Institute received a painting of the Belvedere, the presidential palace in Warsaw. We feel greatly honored by this visit. Thank you, Mr. President.