Violin Concert by Marta Lucjan
Tuesday, 6 August, 2024, 6.30pm…
Polish Children of Pahiatua 80th Anniversary Auckland
Sunday, 20 October, 2pm, Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside…
Outstanding Polish Women
8 – 21 August 2024, Central City Library, 44/46 Lorne Street, Auckland CBD…
Jadwiga née Jarka Cooper
It is with regret that we announce the death of Jadwiga née Jarka Cooper, one of our most colourful Auckland Polish community members. She died peacefully on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, aged 96. Her funeral will be held on Thursday 20 June at 11am at the Church of St John the Evangelist, 180 Centreway Road,…
Emilia Hammerton, Sto Lat!
A sincere Sto Lat and congratulations to Pani Emilia née Szczecina Hammerton, whose family and friends never sang truer words at her 100th birthday party yesterday. She was born on 30 May 1924, in Sudół, Poland, and was 15 when occupying German soldiers captured her, and others – including her future first husband Józef Cyckoma…
Szarlotka Festival
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…
Monte Cassino
Eighty years ago today, 18 May 1944, at 10.20am, the Polish flag flew over the ruins of the Benedictine monastery on top of Monte Cassino. The ruins had loomed over the soldiers of the Second Polish Corps in Italy, led by Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders, since they entered the fray surrounding Monte Cassino—the main stronghold of…