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IN THIS MONTH'S WEB EDITION:

NEWSMARK

• U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak to express his condolences for the loss of a Polish soldier serving with international forces in Afghanistan
• U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman paid a visit to Warsaw to reassure Poland over recent changes in a European missile defense system.
• Paul McCartney will kick off a world tour in Warsaw on June 22, four days after he turns 71, the former Beatle’s official website announced.
• Barbara “Basia” Piasecka Johnson, 76, a Polish farmer’s daughter who worked as a maid for an American heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune before marrying him and eventually inheriting much of his wealth, has died.
• A compromise has been reached over church funding in Poland, said Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, Archbishop of Warsaw, and Michal Boni, Minister of Administration and Digitization.
• Meticulous records kept by the Nazis detailing the fate of 17.5 million of their World War II victims have been rediscovered in the German town of Bad Arolsen.
• A group of Capuchin friars in Poland used the order’s historical link to cappuccino to raise money to help Africans.

FEATURE

• New Political Action Committee Launched
• Visa Waiver Legislation Rolls into Immigration Reform
• Pinkowski Receives Orchard Lake 2013 Fidelitas Medal

EDITORIAL

• A Responsibility We Must Never Let Fade

BOOK REVIEWS

• THE EAGLE UNBOWED: POLAND AND THE POLES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Halik Kochański
• ENGLISH-SPEAKING WITNESSES TO KATYŃ by Krystyna Piórkowska
• POLISH/POLONIAN HERITAGE AND LIFESTYLES by Robert Stybel

IN THIS MONTH'S PRINT EDITION

• The Five-Groszy That Went to the Moon
• The Polish American Museum — Not Just Your Long Islander’s Museum
• Ambassador Schnepf Addresses U.S.-Poland Relations; Protests “Unfair” German TV Series
• An Interview with Dr. Thomas Napierkowski, President, Polish American Historical Association
• Tribute to a Legacy
• Śląsk — an Ultimate Performance of Excellence
• Summer Language Program at the KF
• Canonization Processes Advance
• Anti-gay Remarks Cost Wałęsa $70,000
• Family, Friends, and Community Mourn Robert Komosa
• Assumption Church continues 125th Anniversary Celebration
• Pulaski Honored at Capitol
• Marie Curie: Trips with Einstein, Radium Standard
• Polka World Loses Al Soyka
• The Polish School of Medicine in Scotland
• OBITS: Hilary Koprowski, Developed Oral Polio Vaccination; Teresa “Teri” Buckner, Photographer Par Excellence; Robert Pacholski, Coach, Columnist
• Where were Your Ancestors Born?
• Dombrowski and Zayak Elected into National Polish-American Sports Hall
• Bobby Hurley: Chasing Coach K
• Now’s the Time To Get Ready for a Pol-Am Summer Food Fest
• Menu for a Polish Picnic
• and more!

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