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 Pictured
(l. to r.) are Natasa Zupancic, Legal Counsel for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Slovenia; Mr. Matti Pellonpaa, Judge, European Court
for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France; and Les S. Kuczynski, National
Executive Director, Polish American Congress. The picture was taken at
the IOM's Geneva offices during deliberations of the Appeals Panel at
its February meetings.
The IOM appointed its 3-member Appeals Panel for purposes of reviewing appeals filed under the German Forced Labor Compensation Program. Appeals reviewed thus far were from claimants who wanted to be upgraded to a higher category from agriculture to forced labor or from forced labor to slave labor. The IOM has already paid nearly 40,000 claimants the first installment under the Forced Labor Compensation Program. For claimants living in the USA and in Canada, approximately 1/3 have already received their first check. The Polish American Congress assisted claimants from Canada and 1n the USA in completing their IOM applications.
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 Les
Kuczynski, Executive Director of the Polish American Congress, holds a
plaque that was given to the PAC in 1998 by Jim Pawelczyk, the Polish
American astronaut who was aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia before its
ill-fated mission in February, 2003. The Polish flag in the upper left
corner of the plaque was flown in the Columbia on April 4-8, 1997. |
 Chris
Kurczaba (at podium) was reelected President of the PAC's Illinois
Division on May 15, 2002. Camille Kopielski, Julian Witkowski, Irena
Przyluska and Zenon Olejniczak were selected as National Directors. |
 Frank
Milewski (left), President of the Downstate New York Division of the
Polish American Congress welcomed the PAC's national President, Edward
J. Moskal upon his arrival in New York City. Milewski briefed Moskal on
the present situation of New York's Polish American community and how
the local PAC cooperates with the various Polish National Alliance
lodges in the area. |
 During
the Annual National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Observance at the United States
Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., on May 4, 2002, President of the
Polish American Congress of Eastern Massachusetts, Anthony J. Bajdek,
along with George A. Katucki, President of the Polish American Cultural
Association of Rockland County, N.Y., and Brigadier General (Ret.)
Daniel M. Litynski, each received the Cavalier's Cross of the Order of
Merit of the Republic of Poland (Krzyz Kawalerski Orderu Zaslugi
Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej) in recognition of their efforts to perpetuate
the Kosciuszko Observance in West Point, and for their service to
Polonia as well. Pictured (l. to r.) are Mrs. Cynthia Bajdek, Agnieszka
Magdziak-Miszewska, Consul General of the Republic of Poland, and Dean
Anthony J. Bajdek, President of the PAC of Eastern Massachusetts. |
 Father
Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R was the guest speaker at the April 7, 2002,
communion breakfast of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights held at Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale, N.Y. He is
director for Spiritual Development for the Archdiocese of New York and a
regular guest on the religious TV channel EWTN. He discussed the ordeal
of Catholics who suffered or were murdered at Auschwitz during the
German occupation of Poland in WW II with three Polish Catholics present
at the breakfast, who had survived the death camp. Pictured are (l. to
r.) Michael Preisler, Co-Chair of the Polish American Congress Holocaust
Documentation Committee; Michael Scislowski; Father Benedict; and Andrew
Garczynski. |