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Ambassador Ashe Participates in March of the Living in Auschwitz U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe and Consul Stephen Barneby of the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow joined thousands of students from around the world in the annual March of the Living on May 1 at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz. U.S. Ambassador to Hungary April Foley and Naval Commander Tom Williamson also took part in the event. The March of the Living, which is also known as The March of Remembrance and Hope, is held each year to honor and remember the victims of the Holocaust. Participants march silently the three-kilometer distance separating the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, located in southern Poland. This was the seventeenth March of the Living. (Photo Gallery) For more information on the March of the Living, click here. (more)
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American Veterans Took Part in Krakow Marathon A group of five wounded American veterans represented the Achilles Track Club Freedom Team of Wounded Veterans in the Krakow Marathon Sunday, May 4. The Freedom Team was founded in 2004 to introduce recently wounded soldiers of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to athletic competition. Former New York City Fire Chief and 9/11 hero Dan Daly was part of the American delegation supporting the Achilles Freedom Team efforts. On May 5, the Freedom Team representatives and Chief Daly met with students at an integrated middle school in Nowa Huta to share their experiences in overcoming challenges and discuss the benefits of volunteerism. (Photo Gallery)
For more information on the Freedom Team please see: http://achillestrackclub.org/freedom_team/ (more)
9/11 Fire Chief Meets with Polish Firefighters-in-Training Former New York City Fire Chief and 9/11 hero Dan Daly met with students at the Szkoła Aspirantów Państwowej Straży Pożarnej in Krakow on May 6 to share his recollections of 9/11. Daly was in Krakow to help support the Achilles Freedom Team of Wounded Veterans. Five Freedom Team members participated in the Krakow marathon on May 4. Chief Daly spoke to the young firefighters about the events of September 11 and its aftermath. Through a moving slide show, he described the unimaginably difficult six-month rescue and recovery effort conducted at Ground Zero. (more)
Upcoming Conference on American Ethnicity in Krakow The American Studies Institute of Jagiellonian University, The Alumni Association in Poland, The US Mission in Poland and The Immigration and Ethnic History Society in the United States are organizing two-day conference entitled “American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions”. The conference will be held in Krakow at Collegium Maius, Sala Bobrzyńskiego on Monday, May 19 and at the Institute of American Studies, Rynek 34 on Tuesday, May 20. The conference will gather leading scholars of American ethnic and migration studies who share basic theoretical and methodological assumptions. There will be presentations on more general topics such as ethnicity and the US Elections as well as opportunities to discuss ongoing research in the field. (more)
Ambassador Visits Mazowieckie, Łódzkie, Śląskie Provinces U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe embarked upon an outreach trip on Wednesday, April 23 in Mazowieckie, Łódzkie, Śląskie Provinces, first calling upon Grzegorz Benedykciński, Mayor of Grodzisk. He then continued on to Rawa Mazowiecka to meet with Mayor Eugeniusz Góraj and speak with local press. In Piotrków Trybunalski, the Ambassador met with Krzysztof Chojniak, Mayor of Piotrków, after which he called upon Anna Milczanowska, Mayor of Radomsko. Ambassador Ashe finished the day in a meeting with Mayor of Myszków Janusz Romaniuk. He then met with former Minister of Labor Jerzy Hausner in Krakow. (more)
Digital Video Conference on Missile Defense Held in Krakow The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow and the Association of Students of International Relations at the Jagiellonian University organized a digital video conference on missile defense on April 23 at Stolarska 9 in Krakow. The American panelist, Keith Englander from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, answered students' questions on technical aspects of the ballistic missile defense system, its capability and effectiveness. The speaker explained the differences between the proposed missile defense system and other defensive systems such as THAAD and Aegis and presented some flight test performance results. The meeting was one of a series of video conferences and lectures on missile defense organized by the Association of Students of International Relations and the U.S. Consulate. (more)
U.S. Consulate Goes Green for Earth DayTo celebrate Earth Day, April 22, the U.S. Consulate has implemented a green program for its building at Stolarska 9. Staff is encouraged to recycle paper, glass, plastic and metal through new recycling containers positioned throughout the building. Other environmentally-friendly changes include replacing incandescent light bulbs with long-life bulbs, reducing the use of electricity through better use of heating, cooling and lighting systems and reducing hot water usage. “Through these steps, we can all do our part to conserve and make this a greener building”, announced Consul General Anne Hall. (more)
Consulate and Alumni Association Organize National Parks Conference for Earth Day Three alumni of the State Department’s International Visitor program were among the key organizers of a two-day conference on parks management and sustainable tourism at Magurski National Park in southern Poland held on April 21 and 22. The conference, co-sponsored by the State Department Alumni Association in Poland and the U.S. Mission in Poland, brought park directors and staff, NGOs, local government officials, business and European parks representatives together to examine ways of improving park services and managing the flow of tourists while minimizing the environmental impact of increased tourism. Rocky Mountain National Park Director Vaughn Baker shared his expertise on building community-park cooperation and developing a public relations strategy for parks. Rocky Mountain Park signed a sister park agreement in 2007 with Tatra National Park Poland and Slovakia. (more)
Consulate Participates in Tree-Planting Ceremony in Honor of Earth DaySusan Parker-Burns, Consul for Press and Culture at the US Consulate in Krakow and Vaughn Baker, Director of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado participated in a tree-planting ceremony to celebrate Earth Day on Friday April 18. The event was organized by the Polish Environment Partnership Foundation and Krakow City Hall to expand what is known as the Krakow-Moravia-Vienna Greenway. The green way concept began in the US as a way to give people greater access to green space through the creation of bicycle trails and a connected network of parks. Most US states now have a greenways program and there are greenway projects throughout Europe. Children from local schools helped to plant the trees at Friday’s ceremony, which expands the Krakow area of the greenway project. (more)
Consulate Participates in Comic Festival in Wrocław On Friday, April 18th, Eric Salzman gave a presentation at a panel held at the American Corner in Wrocław, in conjunction with Aliascon. He spoke about the history of the American Comic Book from its origins in the 1930s to the present, describing the groundbreaking “golden age” of the 1940s, the industry’s rebirth in the “silver age” of the 1960s, the socially relevant “bronze age” of the 1970s, and the “modern” or “dark age” of the 1980s and 1990s, which featured a trend towards darker, more violent stories in response to unprecedented speculator and collector interest. The presentation was part of a two-day comic book and graphic novel festival in Wrocław. (more)
Young Learners Resource Center Opens in Wrocław A new center for teachers of English at the elementary level – The Young Learners Resource Center - opened at the American Corner in Wrocław, Rynek 58 on April 17. The opening was followed by a workshop for teachers on methods of teaching run by Margaret Cholodecki, Embassy’s English Language Fellow.
The collection of the Young Learners Resource Center includes teaching methodology books that can be borrowed or copied, as well as handouts with practical materials for classroom use, including lesson plans. There is also a “processing corner” where teachers are able to use the die cut machine or laminator to allow them to prepare their own teaching materials for classroom use. All resources are free of charge. (more)
Donation of American Film Classics Collection to American Corner A collection of over 600 DVDs containing mostly American “classic” movies from the 40s, 50s and 60s was donated to the American Corner in Wrocław by Piotr Piwowarczyk, founder of Mam Marzenie in Poland. The collection commemorates the life of an extraordinary human being, Joe Sedia. The DVDs are available for circulation. For more on the collection of films, books and other materials at the American Corner, we invite you to visit the Corner website at http://www.amcorners.pl/wroclaw/ (more)
Jagiellonian Students Participate in Video Conference on American Literature Graduate students from Jagiellonian University’s Department of English Philology took part on a digital video conference with Professor David Cowart from the University of South Carolina on April 16 at the Information Resource Center at the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow. The discussion centered around the topic of immigrant writers in America, the implications of cultural and language assimilation of first-generation immigrants, the canon of literary works studied by the students of English Philology and writers in the contemporary culture of electronic media. Professor Zygmunt Mazur, lecturer on American literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, moderated the discussion. (more)
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