Poland in Iceland

We would like to invite you to the Christmas carols concerts of the "Mazowsze" national folk song and dance ensemble. Free admission!

On the 21st of October Polish musicians performed Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" in the Polish Embassy in Reykjavik.

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.

At the beginning of March, the President and First Lady of Iceland had paid an official state visit to the Republic of Poland.