{"id":3106,"date":"2022-09-20T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekb.org.pl\/en\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2022-09-30T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:01:38","slug":"we-remember-and-are-grateful-the-annual-ceremony-in-front-of-a-monument-to-henryk-slawik-and-jozsef-antall-senior-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekb.org.pl\/en\/we-remember-and-are-grateful-the-annual-ceremony-in-front-of-a-monument-to-henryk-slawik-and-jozsef-antall-senior-in-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"We remember and are grateful – the annual ceremony in front of a monument to Henryk S\u0142awik and J\u00f3zsef Antall Senior in Warsaw."},"content":{"rendered":"

WE REMEMBER AND ARE GRATEFUL <\/strong>for preventing Hitler’s troops from attacking Poland from the south in September 1939.<\/p>\n

The memorable and uplifting words of Hungarian Prime Minister P\u00e1l Teleki, who, under the pressure from Berlin, had the courage to reply to Ribbentrop that he was prepared to order bridges to be blown up if Wehrmacht troops tried to cross Hungarian territory without his permission in order to strike at a country with which Hungarians were linked by centuries of friendship and brotherhood, have gone down in history!<\/p>\n

\"Grzegorz<\/a>
Grzegorz \u0141ubczyk, the former Ambassador of Poland to Hungary and the vice president of the Henryk S\u0142awik \u2013 Memory and Work Association,\u00a0Orsolyia K\u00f3vacs, the ambassador of Hungary to Poland and Janusz Cie\u015blik,\u00a0the President of the European Business Club Poland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And as if that was not enough, on 18 September 1939, i.e. the very next day after the Soviet military attack on the Eastern part of Poland, Regent Mikl\u00f3s Horthy and Prime Minister Teleki take a second courageous decision to open the border of their country to more than 120,000 Polish war refugees \u00ad\u2013 military, civilians, clergy, youth and children. They not only welcome our compatriots under the Hungarian roof, but also create conditions for their stay during the war!<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the reason why on the successive anniversaries of those events we meet in front of the\u00a0monument to Henryk S\u0142awik and J\u00f3zsef Antall Senior, who are the symbols of the extraordinary Polish-Hungarian brotherhood in the years of war. In\u00a0order to \u2013 I\u00a0repeat \u2013 tell the Hungarians through the Ambassador Orsolya K\u00f3vacs, who is here today: We remember and are grateful<\/strong>!\u201d. These were the words of Grzegorz \u0141ubczyk, former Polish Ambassador to Hungary and vice-president of the Henryk S\u0142awik \u00ad\u2013 Memory and Work Association, to the invited guests.<\/p>\n

The ceremony was attended by, among others, Ambassador Orsolyia K\u00f3vacs and former refugees who found care and a roof over their heads, witnesses of that EXODUS.<\/p>\n

The European Business Club Poland was represented by its\u00a0President Janusz Cie\u015blak.<\/p>\n

\"Janusz<\/a>
Janusz Cie\u015blak, the President of The European Business Club Poland next to monument to Henryk S\u0142awik and J\u00f3zsef Antall Senior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2016, a monument to Henryk Slawik and J\u00f3zsef Antall Senior was unveiled in Dolinka Szwajcarska, which was the first of its kind in Warsaw honouring a\u00a0Silesian, who participated in the three Silesian Uprisings and a prominent Hungarian, whom the refugees called the “Father of Poles”. It should be added that in 2016 the initiator of the above-mentioned monument \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 Ambassador Grzegorz \u0141ubczyk became the winner of the European Business Club Poland Award “SIGNUM TEMPORIS 2016 ZNAK CZASU” with the following justification: “in recognition of his merits in his activities to popularise knowledge about Polish refugees in Hungary from 1939 to 1946 and Polish-Hungarian relations during World War II.”<\/p>\n

The annual ceremony, organised on 19 September 2022 by the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, the Society of Friends of Silesia in Warsaw and the Henryk S\u0142awik – Memory and Work Association, is an expression of thanks for the great heart, help and care of Hungarians for more than one hundred thousand Polish war refugees in the years 1939 \u20131945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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