Year: 2013

Matthew Stewart (born February 1960), age 53, died unexpectedly yesterday, July 13, 2013, after experiencing a heart attack, at the closure of a special family gathering in honour of his mother, Aunty Rae Solomon-Stewart. The family was celebrating Aunty Rae’s 80th birthday at La Perouse in Sydney.…

The former patron of Kosciuszko Heritage, Lech Paszkowski (1919 – 2013), has been remembered in tributes as a great writer and member of the Polish community in Australia.

“He gave us Poles in Australia our identity, and identity does not come about without a long chain of generations,” said the President of Kosciuszko Heritage, Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek.…

The Patron of Kosciuszko Heritage, Lech Paszkowski, passed away yesterday. Lech was officially appointed Patron in October 2011.

He was an esteemed member of the Polish community in Australia. A writer, historian, community worker and journalist, he was the author of many highly regarded works about migrant life in Australia and famous Polish individuals.…

Felix Molski, a committee member, made a discovery while conducting some research recently. He shares his “Eureka!” moment in this entertaining anecdote that shows some of the work that Kosciuszko Heritage is doing.

(Felix’s most recent publication was the book The Best of Human Nature: Strzelecki’s Humanitarian Work in Ireland; find out more about it by clicking here.)…

Kosciuszko Heritage has been awarded a Medal of Recognition.

The honour was given by the Polish Community Council of Australia and was presented by its Vice-President, Leszek Wikarjusz, on the first day of Dream Lights, this year’s Kosciuszko Festival.

In its citation justifying the award, the Polish Community Council of Australia acknowledged Kosciuszko Heritage for its “dissemination of knowledge about Poland and its outstanding sons, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Paul Edmund Strzelecki, promoting their humanitarian ideals, and for many other initiatives that reinforce the arguments for maintaining the Polish name of Mt Kosciuszko”.

The annual Kosciuszko Festivals have ended on a high note, with the seventh festival drawing together a range of cultures for two days of historic events in the Snowy Mountains.

Dream Lights, the final Kosciuszko festival organised by Kosciuszko Heritage, held from February 23 to 24, celebrated the best of Aboriginal, Australian, Irish and Polish cultures.