Welcome to the Polish Heritage Club - Madison
The Polish Heritage Club of Wisconsin - Madison is a volunteer, non-profit organization of diverse individuals and families striving to enrich, expand, preserve, and promote our Polish roots and culture.
PHC Summer Picnic July 25th @ Elver Park
This year's picnic is again going to be held at Elver Park which is located at 1250 McKenna Blvd.
Directions from Madison’s WEST BELTLINE:
EXIT 255 to S. GAMMON RD. which becomes MCKENNA BLVD. ~ 1 mile to Elver Park on
RIGHT.
10 am Setup starts – volunteers welcome & needed!
11 am Start activities: music, continue setup, grilling
12 pm Potluck lunch-please bring a dish to pass
according to your last name:
A-F Potato salads, baked beans, cooked veg
G-L Cold salads, raw veg, fruits, dips
M-R Desserts
S-Z Casseroles, hot dishes
After lunch Cracovia School of Foil Fencing Demo. Music, raffle drawing includes
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*a housecleaning from Tekla Wlodarczyk’s Mother Earth Cleaners.
Elver Park has children’s playground & tennis courts.
3 pm End of picnic and clean up.
Polish sausages and buns plus dishes, cups and eating utensils will be provided by PHC. Beer and soda will be available for a donation.
*We appreciate help with the setup, serving & cleanup, so please let us know how you can help, or show up early. We hope to see you all, including children and grandchildren! For more information about the picnic, please e-mail us at info@phcwi-madison.org.
Help Restore the Kosciuszko Monument in Milwaukee
Please help restore the Kosciuszko Monument in Milwaukee. Find out more at the project's website.
Survey of Polish Film Class @ MATC
This fall MATC will be offering a Survey of Polish Film class at the downtown location. Here's the information:
Catalog #: 60-810-601-0401 Survey of
Polish Film
Class number: 44691
Meets: October 13 to November 17, 2010
Meets on Wednesday evenings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Instructor: Ewa Verhoven
Please phone 608-258-2301 (Adult and Continuing Education) for more
information.
PHC Book Club
The next meeting of the PHC Book Group will be on August 23rd to discuss The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution by Alex Storozynski.
From Publisher's Weekly:
“Prize-winning journalist Storozynski pulls military strategist and
engineer Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1746–1817) back from the brink of
obscurity by including almost every documented detail to create the
first comprehensive look at a man who once famously symbolized
rebellion. His were the plans sold to the British by Benedict Arnold.
And Kosciuszko’s years of devotion to the American cause framed his
efforts to transform Poland into a self-governing republic freed from
the oversight of Russia’s interests. He antagonized Catherine the Great
and, later, Napoleon. Kosciuszko rallied the first Jewish military force
since biblical times to fight for Polish independence, and
consistently supported equality and education for peasants, Jews, Muslim
Tatars and American slaves—which earned him the devotion of the masses
and lectures by the upper classes. Readers of military and American
history should take note: the minute details will enthrall devotees.
Casual readers will benefit from Storozynski’s expert crafting of a
readable and fact-filled story that pulls readers into the immediacy of
the revolutionary era’s partisan and financial troubles.”
Madison Area Poles Mourn Death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski
On April 10th, a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski along with 95 others, including many government officials, crashed in Western Russia killing all aboard. The Madison area Polish community mourned in a gathering that saw 97 people walk down State Street and gather at the Capitol. Click here for more information and photos from the gathering.
New Link - Polish Squadrons Remembered
These pages were created with an idea to remind the world about Polish airmen and their significant contribution toward the defeat of the Nazi Germany, the enemy of the free world. I also wanted to preserve - if only on a minuscule scale - the memory of Polish squadrons, as it appeared to me that it is the right thing to do. Although there were many of them and they withheld nothing, the efforts of Polish flyers availed them virtually nothing and history prepared another bitter lesson for them.
A permanent link to the site can be found on our Traditions & Culture page.
European Homemade Sausage in Milwaukee Reopens
Frank Jakubczak closed his European Homemade Sausage shop at the end of 2009 but reopened it this spring. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel featured Frank in an article last month.
Breakfast Friends The next meeting of
the PHCWI Breakfast Friends will be Fri April 2nd @ 9am. You are invited
to join around the breakfast table at the Monona Garden Restaurant at
6501 Bridge Rd. from 9:00 A.M. till ? See you there! Wisconsin Historical
Museum Exhibit
The current two year Wisconsin Historical Society Museum
on the Capital Square exhibit Odd Wisconsin
Included is the sweater worn by UW-Madison Veternarian Tadeusz Kowalczyk while a prisoner at Aushwitz. Born in Dombrowa, Poland in 1909, he received his diploma a veterninary sugeon in 1937 from the University of Warsaw. He was arrested by German soldiers in 1940 while tending animals at Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz's summer home in SW Poland. After five years of imprisonment in three concentration camps, he immigrated to the U.S. and Madison. From 1949 to the time of his death, Mr. Kowalczyk was responsible for the veterinary services given to the University herds. Beginning as an instructor while he completed his graduate studies, he became assisant professor in 1957 and full professor in 1968. He died in 1970 in a Madison hospital following heart surgery.
For pictures and more information, including his writings, see the Wisconsin Historical Society website.