Marysia Thiele, a Kosciuszko Heritage committee member, has received a prestigious honour in Poland.
The editor of Polish Community Radio PBA in Adelaide was awarded the Silver Medal of Poznan, entitled “Labor Omnia Vincit”.
Month: November 2013
Review of new book about the Great Hunger
Felix Molski, one of the committee members of Kosciuszko Heritage, has written a review of Christine Kinealy’s new book Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers (published by Bloomsbury).
Kinealy – a Professor of History at the Caspersen Graduate School at Drew University in New Jersey – is a world-leading expert in the study of the Great Hunger.
Committee member visits Strzelecki’s grave
Marysia Thiele, a Kosciuszko Heritage committee member, has paid a visit to the grave of Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki in Poland.
“Primary School No. 53 in Głuszyna, bearing the name of Paul Edmund Strzelecki, invited me to visit the crypt of the meritorious dead of Wielkopolska on the Hill of St.…
DVDs distributed at Commemoration
Copies of the film P. E. de Strzelecki’s Humanitarian Deeds in Ireland, produced by Kosciuszko Heritage and launched in August, were distributed for free at the annual Famine Rock Commemoration Day.
Held on November 17, at Burgoyne Reserve at The Strand in Williamstown (Melbourne, Victoria), the event commemorated the “more than 1700 brave Irish Famine Orphans who left everything behind to come to Melbourne to make a new life from 1848, working as domestics for the colonists in this new country [Australia]” (as described by Tinteán magazine).…
Strzelecki leaflets at Polish Festival
Leaflets about Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki will be available at this year’s Polish Festival in Melbourne.
The English-language leaflets about the humanitarian and explorer will be handed-out during the event at Federation Square on November 17.
Lidia Legun spearheaded the project and obtained the funding to print the leaflets.