It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Roman Drecki. He died at his home on the 9th November 2023. Requiem Mass will be celebrated for Roman by Fr Alfredo Garcia at St Thomas More Catholic Church, Glenfield, Auckland, on Thursday 16th November at 11am. The Rosary will commence 30…
For all Poles with a valid Polish passport: If you would like to participate in the Polish elections on Sunday, 15 October 2023, please register via the Internet by 10 October. Voting in Auckland will be at Europe House, which is on the 16th Floor, 56 Wakefield Street, Auckland Central, an AUT building. Voting opens…
Nina Tomaszyk arrived at our AGM last Sunday with the intention of becoming more involved in the Auckland Polish Association, maybe joining the committee. When no one come forward to be the new president, she put her hand up. She was challenged, the 27 APA members at the meeting, together with their 13 proxies, went…
When our son was in third form, he and his classmates used to laugh at this favourite saying from one of their non-English-speaking teachers. On face value, they had a point but, whether it was a grammatical error or not, that teacher gave his pupils a lesson in leadership. And new leadership is exactly…
Greetings to all our members. As Christmas is upon us, I thank all members and friends of the Auckland Polish Association for their support and participation in the events we held this year. We enjoyed connecting with many of you again in person and celebrating our heritage and community at events held in the Polish House. Have a fabulous time…
Marysia née Dac Jaśkiewicz—for many years a stalwart member of our Auckland Polish Association—died on 10 June 2022. One of the youngest of the Polish orphans who became known as the “Pahiatua children,” Pani Marysia arrived in New Zealand with her older sister, Aniela, in November 1944. They, and 836 other Polish children and adults,…
Readers of our website may have noticed that we have removed the translator button from our menu. It was not a decision made lightly. Having an algorithm translating for one is so much easier than actually doing the hard graft—and it is instant. We noticed, however—and have been told—that the “instant” translations of our stories…
Input from readers is something website creators welcome, and we are no different. It means people are reading our stories—and let us know where we may have got it wrong. In my original story about the history of Poles in Auckland, which is under the About Us drop-down menu, I mistakenly used an incorrect date…
Stanisław Szczepański, a WW2 veteran who fought for the Second Polish Corps under General Wladyslaw Anders, died on 6 June 2022 aged 95. _______________ From left, former Polish Ambassador to New Zealand, Zbigniew Gniatkowski, Polish veterans Stanisław Szczepański and Adam Piotrzkiewicz, and Honorary Consul for Auckland, Bogusław Nowak, at the presentation of Pro Patria medals…
Paulina Piasta tapped into the psyche of the members of our Association with her winning logo design: it outstripped the other nine entries by a significant margin. Her three entries into the competition focused on the key symbols Poles always associate with Poland—the Polish eagle, the map of Poland, and the colour red. That those aspects…