Online Learning
Virtual Program: “Footprints of Polonia in North America”
Virtual Program: Poles in Jamestown Colony, 1619
Presented by:
Raymond Glembocki
President
American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC)
on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
6:00 p.m. (CDT)
In 1608, Polish master craftsmen arrived in Jamestown to help establish industries and
businesses in the new British Colony. However, Poles were not granted the same freedom as
their fellow Englishmen which led to the first Polish Suffrage movement.
Wojciech Korfanty and Striving for Freedom of Polish Silesians
Virtual Program: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85405180777?pwd=eWJidUhXS2svTUJZN0loUCt0VXJCZz09
Presented by:
Dr. Piotr Przybylski
Assistant Director for Polish Studies
University of St. Thomas-Houston
on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
6:00 p.m. (CST)
Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections from the Dual Invasion of Poland in World War II
Presented by:
Donna Chmara
In Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Donna Chmara describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her
family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying
on historic sources, interviews with twenty survivors and personal experience, she focuses on the
danger of identifying solely with a group or ideology rather than with the fact of our shared
humanity.
Virtual Program: On the many gifts of Pope John Paul II
Please register for the virtual event here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85405180777?pwd=eWJidUhXS2svTUJZN0loUCt0VXJCZz09