Poland in New Zealand

The call for proposals in the "Polish Returns 2020. COVID-19 Edition" program is addressed to institutions planning to employ scientists whose research may be relevant for broadening knowledge and solving significant problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, in particular representatives of broadly understood health and biomedical sciences.

Ambassador of Poland visited Christchurch where he took part in the movie screening organised to commemorate the Katyń Massacre. The visit was also an opportunity to decorate a descendant of one of the Early Polish Settlers in New Zealand.

Read through the Polish Prime Minister's article for the Daily Telegraph "Clean path to a new model of globalization: time for European 5G realism"

On June 18, 2020, a Requiem Mass was held for the late Krystyna Tomaszyk, a prominent representative of the Polish community in New Zealand. Among the participants of the funeral mass held at St Mary of the Angels in Wellington were family, friends, members of the Polish community and the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in New Zealand.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs announces a contest for the best foreign language publication promoting the history of Poland and the best Polish language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy. The contest welcomes works which were published in 2019. Historians can submit their works until 31 August 2020.

The Polish Embassy has established the “Life After Pahiatua” project to commemorate and honour the Polish Pahiatua Children and the enormous contribution they made, through sheer character and hard work, to the country that looked after them in their time of greatest need. 

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is working on an interactive garden in virtual space inspired by the work of Krzysztof Penderecki. "Penderecki’s Garden" will flower in November, but users are invited to watch the project grow.

See the written results of study conducted by Renata Vickrey, Archive Librarian, Central Connecticut State University presented upon the assessment of the determinants of Polish identity among first and second-generation New Zealand-born individuals of Polish descent.

Seventy five years after the end of the Second World War, we pay tribute to its victims. We remember the indomitable struggle of the Polish nation against Nazi Germany throughout the conflict in Europe, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945.

In 1945, the Polish nation, hugely impacted by the Second World War, with other victims of two totalitarianisms in Central and Eastern Europe, witnessed what we call today “liberation without freedom”. In Poland, left behind the Iron Curtain, Josef Stalin implemented his policy of building a communist empire - writes Ambassador of the Republic of Poland Zbigniew Gniatkowski in his latest article.