Events

We would like to invite you to the Polonia Forum – “March to Solidarity”

Saturday, September 21, 2024

National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, PA
654 Ferry Rd, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA

Visitors Center

Start at 10:00 AM

I. 10:00 – 10:15

• Fr. Bogdan Olzacki – Prior of American Czestochowa
• Tadeusz Antoniak – Chairman of the Smolensk-Katyn Committee
  Prayer, Introduction, and Welcome of Guests

II. 10:15 – 10:55

• Dr. Karol Nawrocki – President of the Institute of National Remembrance
  “Poland under the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) from 1944-1945 to 1989. The fight for independence through social protests.”

III. 10:55 – 11:35

• Antoni Macierewicz – Member of the Polish Parliament
  “The years 1966-1976 – from the Millennium to the Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR).”

IV. 11:35 – 12:10

• Hanna Natora-Macierewicz and Grazyna Najnigier (representative of the Association of Interned and Repressed Women)
  “Women in prisons during the martial law period.”

V. 12:10 – 12:40

Q&A – Questions, Answers, and Discussion

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

VI. 14:00 – 14:40

• Andrzej Burghardt – Solidarity activist in forced emigration in the USA
  “Activities in the USA for an independent Poland between 1981-1989.”

VII. 14:40 – 15:20

• Representative of the Institute of National Remembrance
  “Murders of priests in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) during the martial law and Solidarity periods up to 1989.”

VIII. 15:20 – 16:00

• Bogumila Stec-Swiderska – Vice Chairman of the Board of the Rzeszów Region of NSZZ Solidarity
  “The role of Solidarity in modern times – the ethos of Solidarity.”

IX. 16:00 – 16:30

Q&A – Questions, Answers, and Discussion

X. 16:30 – 17:30

• Pawel Piekarczyk – Singer from patriotic circles
• Wojciech Bonarowski – Baritone
  Concert of patriotic songs from the Solidarity period

17:30 – 19:00 Dinner