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…
Mix & Mingle
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?…
Our History – corrections
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
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…
Logo Competition Winner
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…