{"id":619,"date":"2019-11-18T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/?p=619"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:29:21","slug":"poland-first-to-fight-history-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/poland-first-to-fight-history-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201ePOLAND FIRST TO FIGHT&#8221; HISTORY CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Live-streamed direct<\/strong> from National Press Club, Washington, DC November 18-20, 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/ustream.tv\/embed\/23728000\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: 0 none transparent;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference live-stream schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAY 1 &#8211; November 18, 2019 at 12:15 pm\nEST &#8211; 5:00 pm EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(18:15 &#8211; 23:15 Warsaw time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAY 2 &#8211; November 19, 2019 at 8:20 am EST\n&#8211; 5:00 pm EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(14:20 &#8211; 19:20 Warsaw time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAY 3 &#8211; November 20, 2019 at 8:00 am EST\n&#8211; 10:50 am EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(14:00 &#8211; 16:50 Warsaw time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Program of the Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DAY 1:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WORLD WAR II FROM A DIFFERENT\nPERSPECTIVE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>11:30 am Registration of participants\n&amp; lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:15 pm Opening of the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Prof. Marek Kornat, Chair of Program Committee<\/li><li>Dr. Marek B\u0142a\u017cejak, Chair of Executive Committee<\/li><li>Richard Widerynski, former president of the Polish\nAmerican Congress of Southern California, conference moderator<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>12:30 pm &#8211; Keynote speech by Prof.\nMieczyslaw Biskupski &#8211; University of Connecticut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:00 pm &#8211; Stacey Fitzgerald &#8211;\nPersecution and Resistance of Polish Women: KL Ravensbr\u00fcck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:20 pm &#8211; Christoph Schwarz, Kidnapping\nand germanization of Polish children by Nazi Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:40 pm &#8211; Prof. Kazimierz Braun &#8211; Polish\ntheatre in the time of war (1939-1945) \u2013 Fight\u2013Losses\u2013Will to Survive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:00 pm &#8211; Kenneth K. Koskodan &#8211; No\nGreater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland\u2019s Forces in World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:20 pm &#8211; Marcin Makowski &#8211; World War II\nin computer games \u2013 viable educational tool or rewriting the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:40 pm &#8211; Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:00 pm- Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TESTIMONIES OF WITNESSES OF HISTORY AND\nTHEIR DESCENDANTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>3:30 pm &#8211; Tim Holden, Polish airmen in\nWorld War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:50 pm, Anu Radha, \u201cA Little Poland in\nIndia\u201d \u2013 Rescue of Polish children and women during WWII by an Indian Maharaja<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4:10 pm -Krystyna Zamorska, Ph.D. &#8211; The\nKL system in the German war economy: KL Stutthof, the\u201dforgotten\u201d camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4:30 pm &#8211; Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5:00 pm &#8211; End of the 1st day of the\nconference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6:00 pm Reception at the Indian Embassy\nwhere \u201cA Little Poland in India\u201d movie will be shown (invitation only)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DAY 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FROM THE THE RIBBENTROP-MOLOTOV PACTS TO\nWORLD WAR II AND THE OCCUPATION OF POLAND BY NAZI GERMANY AND SOVIET RUSSIA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>8:00 am -Registration of participants\n&amp; breakfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8:20 am &#8211; Presentation of the documentary <strong>\u201cIn the footsteps of Slaughter of Wola\u201c<\/strong> about the massacre of thousands of Polish civilians during the Warsaw Uprising, directed by Grzegorz Kutermankiewicz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:00 am &#8211; Prof. Marek Kornat &#8211; Two\ntotalitarian powers against Poland \u2013 The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact (August \u2013\nSeptember 1939)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:20 am &#8211; Prof. Ma\u0142gorzata\nGmurczyk-Wro\u0144ska &#8211; Poland and her Allies. 1939 (presentation in Polish,\nsimultaneously interpreted to English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:40 am -Dr. Ing. Bruno Wasser &#8211;\nGeneralplan Ost (Master Plan for the East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:00 am, Prof. Tadeusz Wolsza &#8211; Katyn\nmassacre and Katyn lie in the international arena (presentation in Polish,\nsimultaneously interpreted to English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:20 am &#8211; Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:40 am &#8211; Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:00 am &#8211; Prof. Mariusz Wo\u0142os &#8211;\nPolish-Soviet relationship during World War II \u2013 stereotypes and reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:20 am &#8211; Dr. Rafa\u0142 \u0141atka &#8211; Polish\nCatholic Church in occupied Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:40 am &#8211; Prof. Jan Stanis\u0142aw\nCiechanowski &#8211; Contribution of the Polish Intelligence Service to the Allied\nVictory over Germany in World War Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:00 am &#8211; Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:20 am -Lunch break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">INFOWARS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1:20 pm &#8211; Prof. Mieczyslaw Biskupski &#8211;\nHollywood\u2019s War with Poland, 1939-1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:40 pm &#8211; Prof. Norman Domeier &#8211;\nCollaboration between Associated Press and Nazi Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:00 pm &#8211; Dan Zamoyski &#8211; Distortion of\nPolish World War II history by the media, academia and politicians and its\nconsequences. Auschwitz survey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:20 pm &#8211; Prof. Peter Paprzycki, Prof.\nChristine Fox &amp; Prof. Svetlana Beltyukova &#8211; The application of a Rasch\nmodel in the study of external perceptions of the role of Poland in the World\nWar Two; the value of a psychometric approach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:40 pm &#8211; Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:00 pm &#8211; Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">POLES AND JEWS DURING WORLD WAR TWO<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>3:20 pm &#8211; Prof. Grzegorz Berendt &#8211; Poles\nand Jews under German occupation. Gross\u2019s thesis reconsidered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:40 pm &#8211; Prof. Bogdan Musia\u0142 &#8211; Who will\nhelp a Jew? (presentation in Polish, simultaneously interpreted to English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4:00 pm &#8211; Questions &amp; answers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5:00 pm &#8211; End of the 2nd day of the\nconference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.30 pm&nbsp;reception at the Embassy of\nPoland (invitation only)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DAY 3:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">POLAND, A BETRAYED ALLY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>8:00 am &#8211; Presentation of the\ndocumentary My Home India, a little-known story of unimaginable humanity,\ngenerosity and kindness offered by India towards thousands of Polish WW2\nSiberian orphans. Directed by Anjali Bhushan based on research of Ma\u0142gorzata Czausow.\nSkype connection with the Indian director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8:50 am &#8211; Prof. Krzysztof Kosi\u0144ski &#8211;\nNational movement in occupied Poland \u2013 negative stereotypes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:10 am &#8211; Prof. Danusha V. Goska &#8211;\nNegative sterotypes of Poles in popular American culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:30 am &#8211; Prof. Sean McMeekin &#8211; Making\nStalin Happy \u2013 Allies Betrayal of Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:50 am &#8211; Alberto Trujillo &#8211; Perception\nof Poland in the Second World War in the Spanish speaking world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:00 am &#8211; Panel discussion*, Distorting\nthe history of World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator of the discussion: Marcin\nMakowski, journalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmed panelists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Prof. Andrzej Kaminski \u2013 historian,\nprofessor emeritus Georgetown university<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Alberto Trujillo \u2013 founder and\npresident of the Polish-Spanish Historical and Cultural Association \u201cPoland\nFirst to Fight\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Stefan Komar \u2013 son of a Warsaw\nUprising insurgent whose Battalion Zo\u015bka was awarded the Righteous Among the\nNations medal for liberating Gesiowka concentration camp in Poland\u2019s capital,\nStefan Komar has been fighting for years against historically false and\noffensive terms like \u201cPolish death camps\u201d, among others as a member of the\nPolish Media Issues group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:50 End of the conference&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the organizing Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Marek Blazejak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Edward Wojciech Jesman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Stanislaw Sliwowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Krystyna Zamorska\n\n-Artur Zysk\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Live-streamed direct from National Press Club, Washington, DC November 18-20, 2019 Conference live-stream schedule DAY 1 &#8211; November 18, 2019 at 12:15 pm EST &#8211; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/poland-first-to-fight-history-conference\/\" title=\"\u201ePOLAND FIRST TO FIGHT&#8221; HISTORY CONFERENCE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informacje"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}