Exhibition marks 100 years of Polish-US relations
PR dla Zagranicy
Julian Horodyski
19.06.2019 16:00
An exhibition celebrating a century of Polish-American friendship has gone on show in Warsaw.
Photo: Dom Spotkań z Historią/dsh.waw.pl
The Americans in Poland 1919-1947 exhibition tells the stories of 14 Americans who helped Poland rebuild after the country recovered its independence following World War I.
One of the 14 is US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, whose famous “Fourteen Points” address to the US Congress in 1918 called for Poland’s reestablishment as an independent nation-state.
Other names on which the exhibition focuses include less well known people. Arthur Bliss Lane, US ambassador to Poland from 1945 to 1947, is one of them.
Lane was “very important, because he brought American journalists to Poland in order to document the Soviet Russian takeover of Poland,” after World War II said the co-organiser of the exhibition, Jan-Roman Potocki.
Poland and the United States celebrate 100 years of diplomatic relations this year.
Americans in Poland 1919-1947 is hosted by Warsaw’s History Meeting House at 20 Karowa Street. Admission to the exhibition, which runs until October 6, is free.
(jh/pk)
Source: IAR