Archives: June 2025

In a survey of nearly 1,800 Polish Americans, the Piast Institute sought to create a basic profile of the Polish American community, including their demographics, income levels, and political views. We were interested in finding out how Americans, particularly young Americans, perceive us.

In the former Polish village of Puźniki in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, exhumation work began on April 24 of the victims of UPA crimes. The first exhumations of Poles murdered by Ukrainian nationalists since 2017 are the result of many years of work by the Freedom and Democracy Foundation (WiD) based in Warsaw.

On June 4, 1917, the Polish Army in France was established. In 1960, also on June 4, its commander, General Józef Haller, died. The history of this formation shows how important for Poland is the connection with the Polish diaspora and Poles living in exile. Without them, regaining independence after World War I and defending it in the years 1919-1921 would have been impossible.

There was freedom in him. Freedom of thought, speech, views and lifestyle. He demonstrated it boldly and brilliantly in Poland, America, wherever he found himself. One hundred and five years ago, on May 16, Leopold Tyrmand, a writer, publicist, critic of communism, was born in Warsaw.

In the basement of the Vilnius Cathedral, a secret hiding place was discovered with the burial insignia of the rulers of Lithuania and Poland: the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Jagiellon, the first wife of Sigismund Augustus Elizabeth of Habsburg, and his second wife Barbara Radziwiłł. The treasures were wrapped in pre-war Polish newspapers.

The General Court of the European Union has ordered Ursula von der Leyen to disclose text messages exchanged with the head of Pfizer regarding the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines for billions of euros, which triggered the scandal known as "Pfizergate" and undermined trust in the transparency of the European Commission's actions and the president herself, who for years had avoided responsibility for the shadiness of this transaction.