Stany Zjednoczone – USA

[caption id="attachment_26390" align="alignleft"] Polish Numismatics[/caption]Polish numismatics tops charts, landmark sale of rare polish coins to be held by stack’s in Chicago, April 24

NEW YORK – On January 14, a Polish 1621 gold 100 Ducat coin sold for $1.38 Million, setting a world’s record price for a non-U.S. coin. Sold by Stack’s, one of the oldest and most successful rare coin Auction Houses in the U.S., in its Kroisos Collection Sale, the coin was struck to commemorate Poland’s victory over the Ottoman Turks in the famed Battle of Chocim.

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Poprzednicy Benedykta XVI – Paweł VI i Jan Paweł II – którzy odwiedzali już nowojorską siedzibę ONZ, byli tam zawsze w październiku, „ponieważ w październiku rozpoczyna się Zgromadzenie Generalne, w tym roku jednak, ponieważ w Stanach Zjednoczonych są wybory, podróż była niemożliwa w październiku” – wyjaśnił na specjalnej konferencji na temat najbliższej podróży papieża dyrektor biura prasowego Stolicy Apostolskiej ksiądz Federico Lombardi.

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NEWS from THE POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS
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Americans first heard about a “thousand points of light” from George Bush Sr. when he was campaigning for the presidency of the United States in 1988. Now, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz is starting a different kind of campaign to promote his own “thousand points of light.”

Michael Preisler feels “thousand points of truth” would be a more precise description. What are these thousand points? They are a thousand copies of Andrew Hempel’s book about a six-year period Preisler lived through and its title is simply “ Poland in World War II.” It will be distributed by the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress where Preisler is co-chair.

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