September; 2010
Issue
74
In This
Issue:
*Consul General's message
*Anniversary
Auschwitz Jewish Center
*September 11
*Vital Voices
*NPS lecture
*Frantic
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*AMerican Day in Wroclaw
*Liberator's Mission
*Conference on Newsmedia
We hope everyone had a wonderful summer. The Consulate was certainly busy and it was great to see many of you in different places around the consular district. If you want to catch up, please be sure to visit our webpage to see some of the events and activities we had over the summer. As you can see below, we have some excellent activities lined up for September. As I enter my second year in Krakow, I would like to thank the many of you that I have met for the warm welcome you have given to my family and me. We look forward to another rewarding and successful year of Polish and American cooperation.
Sincerely,
Allen Greenberg
Consul
General
Allen Greenberg
10th Anniversary of the Auschwitz Jewish Center
Created in 1996 with the support of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, Inc. in New York, the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim first opened its doors to visitors in September 2000. The institution promotes tolerance and understanding between people of different backgrounds and nationalities and regularly holds dialogue meetings for youths from different countries and with varied religious backgrounds. It offers a wide range of educational and cultural programs and research facilities to both Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, teachers, students, wishing to explore centuries of Polish-Jewish life.
The celebrations of the center’s anniversary will include a series of cultural events on September 5 and 12: a performance by Israeli and Polish artists, a concert of Jewish music, a workshop for children among them. The organizers expect the participation of audience of hundreds of Oswiecim inhabitants, high school students and teachers, regional and state authorities, diplomats, American members of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation and representatives of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
For more detail about the program please see http://ajcf.pl/2010/08/10/10-lat-centrum-zydowskiego-w-oswiecimiu/ and http://ajcf.pl/2010/08/10/10-lat-centrum-zydowskiego-w-oswiecimiu-cz-ii/
On Saturday, September 11, officials from Swietokrzyskie Voivodship and the City of Kielce and the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow will commemorate the 9th anniversary of the events of 9/11. The 9/11 memorial in Kielce is dedicated to victims of terrorist attacks around the world, not only to the victims on 9/11. In 2006 in Kielce, politicians and dignitaries unveiled Poland’s tribute, the Homo Homini monument, to all those who died on 9/11 (5th anniversary.) It’s a work by artist Adam Myjak. The monument is not just to commemorate the 3,000 who died on 9/11 – including six Poles - but also as reminder of the destructive power of hatred in general. Kielce was where a a pogrom against Jews occurred in 1946.
Mary Daley Yerrick, a co-founder and director of Vital Voices Global Partnership will visit Krakow and Katowice on September 16-17. In Krakow she will meet with the representatives of eFKa Foundation to discuss media and communication strategies for women organizations with a group of Krakow women activists, gender studies specialists and journalists of a feminist journal Zadra.
She will also participate in a roundtable with the representatives of Polish Fundraising Association on the topic: Fundraising That Appeals to Corporate Social Responsibility. The participants of the meeting will talk about the strategies for building the support for the organization and its activities with prominent persons such as politicians, celebrities, and businesspeople. Mary Daley Yerrick will also meet with the representatives of women's organizations in Silesia.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
On Thursday, September 16, at 10:00 a.m. the Rocky Mountain National Park Superintendent Vaughn Baker and Chief of Resource Stewardship Ben Bobowski will present a lecture on “Protected Areas Management and Climate Change” to students interested in environmental protection at the V High School in Krakow. Both directors are coming to Poland on a staff exchange program which results from Sister Parks Agreement signed in 2007 by Rocky Mountain National Park and Tatra Mountains National Park.
The U.S. Consulate General and the Home Army Museum in Krakow will host an event organized on the 66th anniversary of “Frantic 7” operation. The opening of a photo exhibition will take place in Stolarska Street in front of the U.S. Consulate General on Saturday, September 18 at 10:00 a.m. The open air exhibition showing the American flights with supplies of weapons, medicines and necessary equipment for the fighting in Warsaw during the 1944 Uprising will be a two-day event in honor of the crews of the heroic flights over occupied Poland and a tribute to Warsaw insurgents.
American Corner in Wroclaw and U.S. Consulate General in Krakow will participate in Language Days organized in September at Dolnoslaska Public Library in Wroclaw, Rynek 58. American Day activities on September 22 will include English language quizzes, learning songs and meeting with the culture of Native Americans, cowboys and Alaskan natives. There will also be a chance to meet American football players and talk about sports in America. The activities will be divided into two sessions: for primary school students and for high school students. Interested teachers of English please contact American Corner in Wroclaw tel: 71 33 52 215.
On Monday, September 27 the Museum in Zywiec and the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow will commemorate the drama that occurred in the sky over Poland in September of 1944. One of the planes participating in the American bombing mission against Nazi occupation was shot down in Jelesnia where there is a monument to the memory of those on board. Aside from laying flowers and honoring the crew, a conference and an exhibition will be held in the Zywiec City Museum at the Old Castle.
The International Newsmedia Marketing Association and On–Line Publishers Association will organize their annual conference in Krakow this year. They will discuss best practices, case studies, marketing and advertising ideas necessary to survive and grow during the time of transition from single medium to multimedia reality. The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow and the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw are partners in the project. The conference will take place from September 29 through October 1. For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.inma.org/modules/event/2010Krakow/index.cfm?action=programme
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