Fot. Mr. Mieczysław Madejski

On August 6th 2019, at the Institute, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising, an memorable event in the history of Poland that showed the indefatigable spirit of Warsaw inhabitants against the Nazi occupation. Mr. Mieczyslaw Madejski, “Marek", commander of “Topolnicki” platoon was the guest of honor of the evening. The Institute was filled with history and memories. The collection of the Uprising soldiers, Stefan and Zofia Koper, was introduced to the audience. Thank you for joining us on that special evening.

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.

Museum Night at the Pilsudski Institute 

 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.