Szarlotka Festival

ByBarbara Scrivens

Sunday 16 June 2024, from 1 – 3pm, Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside Described as “the right amount of sweetness combined with the right amount of crumble,” the traditional szarlotka is a celebration of apples and pastry, aka apple pie with a Polish twist. … so anything goes. I know I can’t resist adding…

Katyń Memorial Plaque

ByBarbara Scrivens

Thank you to all who donated towards the replacement of the little display case containing soil and a pinecone from the Katyń forest. The case and its contents disappeared from the Katyń memorial plaque in Auckland’s cathedral of St Patrick and St Joseph in Wyndham Street. Fr. Chris Denham, Dean of the Cathedral, said that…

Annual Commemoration of the Katyń Massacre

ByBarbara Scrivens

Auckland Cathedral, 43 Wyndham Street, Saturday 20 April, 2024, 12.30pm Auckland Honorary Consul, Bogusław Nowak, is again extending an invitation to members of the Polish community who wish to remember the nearly 22,000 Polish prisoners of war who were murdered in western Russia in April and May 1940 by Stalin’s Secret Police, the NKVD. The…

Doroczna uroczystości w rocznice zbrodni katyńskiej

ByBarbara Scrivens

Drodzy Rodacy, Uprzejmie informuję, że w uzgodnieniu z Parafią Katedry Św. Patryka i Św. Józefa w Auckland, doroczna uroczystość składania kwiatów pod Tablicą Katyńską odbędzie się w sobotę, 20 kwietnia 2024 roku, o godz. 12.30. Tablica otrzyma nową urnę z ziemią i szyszką z lasu katyńskiego. Liczę na Wasz udział w tym bardzo ważnym dla…