Mrs Maria Kaczynska visited the Institute on September 18 while President Kaczynski was attending the meeting of the United Nations. The First Lady took great interest in the original battle order for the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, dictated by Marshal Pilsudski, as well as his handwritten letters. Mrs Kaczynska admired the state-of-the-art archives of the Institute, the library of 23,000 volumes and a gallery of Polish paintings which exhibits 60 masterpieces by prominent Polish painters. Nearly 200 more Polish paintings are displayed throughout the building which the Institute rents from the Polish National Alliance of Chicago. The Institute has a bilingual web site www.pilsudski,org which attracts 5,000 visitors a month.

Jacek Gałązka, Maria Kaczyńska, dr Iwona Korga, Andrzej Ziobroń