Poland in Iceland

Second tender notice – sale of the Embassy’s car Mitsubishi Outlander II

On April 10, 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. That day, at the Katyn War Cemetery the official delegation was to participate in an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the genocide committed on site. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of supreme state authorities, representatives of civil society and Churches, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All passengers died in the air disaster which took place during the landing at the airport near Smolensk.

The Ambassador of Poland to Iceland and the Embassy team send their warmest Easter wishes to everyone in Iceland.

Ambassador Gerard Pokruszyński appeals to all medially trained Poles living in Iceland (doctors, nurses, pharmacists and paramedics) to offer their help in the healthcare sector.

On the 22nd of January a panel discussion titled “75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz – the importance of Holocaust remembrance” took place in the Polish Embassy in Reykjavik.

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.