In front of the White House: Bogan Chmielewski, dr Dorota Andraka, dr Iwona Korga, Marek Rudnicki MD
On June 12th, 2019, Iwona Korga, President of the Pilsudski Institute visited the White House as a guest of the reception hosted by President Donald Trump to honor the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda. Representatives of Polonia were invited to join and celebrate friendly relations between Poland and the USA.
On May 19th, 2019 the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America organized its second Museum Night. A crowd gathered to visit the Institute, to see our gallery of paintings along with an interesting exhibit - "75 years of the Pilsudski Institute", prepared in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland. The uniforms of the Polish Armed Forces in the West were also presented from our collection - thank you to the students from PSS p.p. Cyril and Methodius for your help!
"Museum Night of 2019" was dedicated to generał Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski. He was the main character of the movie "Wieniawa" by Grzegorz Gajewski. Iwona Korga, President of IJP gave a speech introducing Wieniawa's story, presented letters, photographs, and military memorabilia from our collection. The audience welcomed her presentation and the movie with applause. The event was sponsored by PSFCU and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Dr Iwona Korga President of Pilsudski Institute of America, Paulina Wojciechowska Seton Hall University, Jeremy Wong John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), prof. Jacek Czarnecki Kingsborough Community College, Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew Ziarnik Villanova University, Aleksandra Korga Academy of American Studies.
On March 29th, 2019, a conference “ 1st Eastern European Student History Conference” was held at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. The conference was organized by Professor Jacek Czarnecki from Kingsborough Community College and a member of the Pilsudski Institute of America, in co-operation with the Institute. Mr. Czarnecki invited representatives of the American universities, who in their academic work focuses on history of Poland. The special guest of the conference, and a lecturer, was the Consul General of the Republic of Poland, Maciej Golubiewski. The conference was attended by: Piotr Puchalski from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marcin Nagórski from Hunter College (CUNY), Matthew Ziarnik from Villanova University, Jeremy Wong from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), Paulina Wojciechowska from Seton Hall University and Aleksandra Korga from the Academy of American Studies. The young panelists presented selected topics from history of Poland.
The Pilsudski Institute Board od Directors is very thankful to the institutions that supported the activity of the Institute in 2018:
From Poland: thanks to the Józef Piłsudski National Heritage Foundation, grants were obtained from the Senate of the Republic of Poland and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage:
From the Senate of the Republic of Poland:
Support for the statutory activity of the Piłsudski Institute in America
Digitizing and Publishing archival photos and archival video cassette recordings from the Piłsudski Institute in America collection.
The Pilsudski Institute would like to thank Polish institutions:
The Head Office of the State Archives – dr Bartosz Nowożycki (two vistis) and a visit of the conservator Anna Czajka
The National Library – the intership of two librarians: Małgorzata Kurowska i Urszula Stasiak
The Institute of National Remembrance: six month-long internships of archivists: Grzegorz Mroczkowski, Łukasz Kasza, Paweł Popławski, Radosław Szumilo, Hanna Nowacka, Anna Badura; founding of an exhibition about the Institute in Polish and English versions.
In the United States, the following institutions supported the Pilsudski Institute:
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York - grant for the Institute Awards Gala and grants for education in Polish
Polish-Slavic Federal Credit Union - grants for celebrating the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland and digitization
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council – funding for programs in Polish for children and adults.