Book Club

The next meeting of the book club will be on Thursday, 10 July at the Revolinski's home. This time around the club will discuss Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife.

Ms. Ackerman was featured on the radio show Here On Earth last autumn. You can listen to the program here.

Poles Featured on BBC Woman's Hour

A couple archived episodes of the BBC's Woman's Hour radio show are available online.

First there's "Women in Poland":

It's hard to imagine that women's rights may actually be in a worse situation now than during communism. But it seems Poland has a history of women not getting the credit they deserve.

Second is the program "The power of tradition in Poland":

Women in Poland venerate their very own version of the Virgin Mary – Our Lady of Czestochowa. Far more than just a religious symbol, she has come to be synonomous with resistance and the Polish spirit itself. Lech Walesa always wore a badge of the so-called Black Madonna on his lapel and he even left his Nobel Peace Prize at her special shrine at Jasna Gorna in the South West.

 Pora umierać (Time to Die) at Wisconsin Film Festival

PHC member John Benninghouse has written a review of  Pora umierać (Time to Die) which was shown at this year's Wisconsin Film Festival. Read it here.