TO ALL MEMBERS AND FRIENDS 

OF THE OSKAR HALECKI INSITUTE IN CANADA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF OHI

You are cordially invited to the premiere of:

The 14th Annual Kościuszko Chair Conference
by the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies and the Center for Intermarium Studies

Premieres via Facebook
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
5:00 PM ET

https://www.iwp.edu/events/the-14th-annual-kosciuszko-chair-conference-by-the-kosciuszko-chair/

https://www.iwp.edu/faculty/marek-jan-chodakiewicz/

This year Annual Kościuszko Conference will be launched on Remembrance Day in the U.S. and in Canada, and also
the Independence Day of November 11 in Poland. Please use the link above.

Speakers are:

Professor Marek J. Chodakiewicz, Ph.D., Kościuszko Chair, IWP
Dr. Jan Radziłowski, Ph.D., University of Alaska Southeast
Dr. Alexander Maciej Jabłoński, Ph.D., Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada
Professor Grzegorz Kucharczyk, Ph.D., Institute of History, the Polish Academy of Sciences
and Ms. Agnes Tycner, Victims of Comunism Memorial Foundation, IWP

Sincerely yours,

Alexander Maciej Jablonski
President OHI

Hanna Kępka,

B.A.General Secretary

Dr. Alexander M. Jablonski,

P.Eng.President

Oskar Halecki Institute

BONNE FÊTE DU CANADA!

the Commemoration of the 81st Anniversary of the KATYŃ MASSACRE 

and the 11th Anniversary of the SMOLEŃSK TRAGEDY

on Saturday, April 10, 2021 11:00 EST

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83662398149

Meeting ID: 836 6239 8149.  Please join minimum 15 minutes earlier

Commemorative Lecture by Andrew Kavchak

a grandson of the Victim of Katyń, Major Stanisław Kawczak

OVERVIEW OF KATYN MASSACRE OF 1940

and on Sunday, April 11, 2021 10:00 EST

HOLY MASS at St. Hyacinth Polish Church and Laying flowers at the Katyń-Smoleńsk Plaque

link: Live Broadcast

Lest We Forget!  Nie zapomnimy!

We would like to invite all Members of the Polish-Canadian community and other Canadian communities from the Central and Eastern Europe

Please pass this invitation to your Friends and especially Youth

The Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada

Hanna Kępka, B.A., General Secretary

Dr. Alexander M. Jablonski, P.Eng., President

INFO: 

Alex Jablonski

E-mail: alexstarza@gmail.com

Tel: (613) 820-1616

The first presentation was made on November 3, 2020, on the topic of Andrew Kavchak’s recent book
“The Katyn Forest Massacre: An Annotated Bibliography of Books in English”.
In the presentation Kavchak provides an overview history of the Katyn Massacre, followed by a discussion of the leading and authoritative books that have been published since WWII.

The second presentation was made on November 6, 2020, and it consisted of a discussion by Andrew Kavchak of the English translation of his grandfather
Stanislaw Kawczak’s 1936 book “Milknące Echa: Wspomnienia z Wojny 1914-1920”
which was published in English in 2019 as “Dying Echoes: Memoirs of the War 1914-1920”.
The presentation provided an overview of and some of the highlights from the book relating to the Battle of Galicia (1914-1915), the fighting on the Italian Front (1915-1917), and the Polish-Bolshevik War (1919-1920).

Both books are available as ebooks and paperbacks on amazon.

We recommend them very strongly,

Dr. Alexander M. Jablonski
President
Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada

MacKay Lake – Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Thanksgiving 2020

Szczęśliwego Święta Dziękczynienia 2020!

Happy Thanksgiving 2020!

Joyeuse Action de Grace 2020!

from
Board of Directors
The Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada

Ottawa, October 12, 2020

We would like to invite you to a lecture on the important activities of the Campaign Life Coalition – Canada,
an organization working for the defence of life and family rights.

Title: Be not afraid – CLC’s mission in the defence of life and family

Speaker: Mateusz (Matt) Wojciechowski,
Vice-President, Campaign Life Coalition – Canada

When: Thursday, October 8, 2020, 8 pm
via zoom platform
at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4846574530

Please join earlier. The session will be opened from 7:30 pm.

Contact: Hanna Kępka, OHI
Cell: 613-857-0236
E-mail: hanna@life.ca

Please share this invitation with your family and friends.

Sincerely,

Dr. Alexander M. Jablonski
President

Hanna Kępka, B.A.
General Secretary

The Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada

We have received the above letter from Dr. Piotra Murzionak, a distinguished member of the Belarusian community in Ottawa and Canada.

We fully support Canadian-Belarusian community and people of Belarus in their fight for respecting human and citizen rights in their homeland, an important neighbor of Poland.

If you fulfill listed requirements, please sign this petition to Canadian Parliament and Government of Canada to stop dictatorship in Belarus. Please distribute this petition to your friends.

Sincerely yours,

Alexander M. Jablonski

President, Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada

Member of the Black Ribbon Day Committee in Ottawa


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Dear Friends,

We, Belarusians in Ottawa asking you and members of your communities to support our petition to Canadian Parliament regarding situation in Belarus.

Please, see an approach to sign this petition below. All signatures go anonymous via secure service in Parliament.

Thank you in advance,

On behalf,

Piotra Murzionak,

President, Belarusian Canadian Alliance, Ottawa Chapter

President, Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, Canada

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

We created petition to Canadian Parliament and GoC. (link is below)

Our petition to Canadian Parliament and GoC asked to stop dictatorship in Belarus is approved for signing.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2829

 In one month (we selected minimal time frame because of importance of this questions) we need to collect 500 signatures for petition to be presented in Parliament by MP Chandra Arya.

Can you distribute this email to your community to help us achieve this?

Below are short requirements who can be a signatory.

To be a signatory:

•  you must be a citizen or resident of Canada (no age minimum);

•  you may not use an email address or a device with an IP address associated with the Government of Canada or the Parliament of Canada;

•  you must provide certain information so that your identity may be validated by the House of Commons;

•  you must accept the Terms of Use.

The information that you will need to provide as a signatory is:

•  your name;

•  valid email address (note: an email address may only be associated with one signatory);

•  if living in Canada, province or territory, and postal code;

•  if not living in Canada, country you are currently residing in; and

•  telephone number.

After providing this information, you will receive an automated email prompting you to confirm your signature. This confirmation must be provided for your signature to be counted.

You may only sign a given e-petition once.

The Clerk of Petitions has the right to reject any signature of which the validity is in doubt.

On September 1, 1939 at 4:45 AM Nazi Germany invaded Poland

To commemorate the brave fight of Poland against two enemies in September 1939, we publish the article of Alexander M. Jablonski together with his presentation from the 3^rd Oskar Halecki Symposium, which took place in Ottawa on November 23, 2019

LEST WE FORGET!

German and Soviet troops shaking hands at the bridge over river Bug in Brześć (Brest in Belarus now) at the end of the 1939 campaign

LEST WE FORGET!

The Oskar Halecki in Canada