Dr Bogumiła Żongołłowicz
Date: Saturday, 19 November 2022 Time: 3pm Where: Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside _______________ The Auckland Polish Association, in cooperation with the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Auckland, Bogusław Nowak, invites you to meet writer and researcher of the post-war history of Australian Polonia, Dr Bogumiła Żongołłowicz, while she is in…
Celebrating 150 Years – And So Much More
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…
Spring Market
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 Jaśkiewicz
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,…
Looking for translators/ Potrzebujemy tłumaczy
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…