Where: Dom Polski 1 McDonald Street, Morningside When: Sunday, 20 November 2022 Time: 12 noon – 4pm _______________ Anniversaries are sent to us for a reason. We all seem to complain about our lives becoming busier than ever but, if it were not for those birthdays and other high holidays to force us, we would…
11 September, from 2pm What more promising time of the year than when the days draw longer and warmer? As you may have heard, we are celebrating the extra spring in our steps with a market to confirm the fact that Auckland Dom Polski’s doors are again well and truly open. Our Mix & Mingle…
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…
Shake off those winter cobwebs! While it is so tempting to hunker down and keep out the world at this time of the year, your committee decided that some of us might appreciate being able to dust ourselves off and venture outside. And what better place to do that than at our spruced-up Dom Polski?…
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…