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Saturdays - 10:00 am - Noon - Polka Bandstand, WGMC 90.1 and 105.1.
PHSR Board Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at St. John Fisher College (except July and August).
Watch for an art exhibit at the PHSR office in September and October, the Polish Film Festival in November, and the
Wigilia dinner in December.
2012
Monday, January 23, 08:00am (1 hours)
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Polish Heroes Photo Exhibit
Description:
Exhibit runs Jan 23 - Feb 19, 8 am - midnight, every day.<br />
"The Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued the Jews" pays tribute to individuals honored as Righteous
Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel,
paying special attention to more than 6,000 Polish recipients. The photographic exhibition focuses
on twenty-one such recipients who all live in the Kraków region of Poland today.
During the Holocaust, these individuals risked their lives to save persecuted Jews with no reward
for themselves. Today, thousands of descendants of those rescued Jews live around the world.
The exhibition comprises twenty-one portrait photographs by the late photographer and Founder/Director
of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Chris Schwarz. These are accompanied by the biographies and historical
photographs of the award recipients, along with exhibition texts and an introduction by the
Polish-Jewish journalist and intellectual, Konstanty Gebert.
The exhibition records just a handful of the remarkable stories in order to make them accessible, so
that others may be challenged by their acts of selflessness and move to action in the world today.
Location: Shults Center Forum, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
Contact: 585-389-2371
Link: http://www.polishheritagerochester.org/docs/20120123-polish-heroes.pdf Monday, February 06, 07:00pm (2 hours)
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Polish Heroes Photo Exhibit, related film
Description:
"Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance after the Holocaust on Monday".
Location: Shults Center Forum, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
Contact: 585-389-2371
Link: http://www.polishheritagerochester.org/docs/20120123-polish-heroes.pdf Wednesday, February 08, 06:00pm (2 hours)
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Polish Heroes Photo Exhibit lecture
Description:
Lecture: "Polish Responses to the Holocaust" will focus on rethinking Polish-Jewish relations during
the Holocaust. While the literature of the Holocaust tells us a great deal about the perpetrators and
the victims, it fails to deal adequately with the role of the bystanders who made up the majority of
the population in Poland as well as throughout Europe, or the rescuers who helped save tens of thousands of Jews.
Michael Dobkowski, Ph.D served as a visiting professor at Nazareth College in the fall of 2011 where he
taught Jewish Thought, the history and implications of the Holocaust, the American Jewish Experience,
and the History of Anti-Semitism.
Location: Shults Center Forum, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
Contact: 585-389-2371
Link: http://www.polishheritagerochester.org/docs/20120123-polish-heroes.pdf Wednesday, February 15, 07:00pm (2 hours)
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Polish Heroes Photo Exhibit, related film
Description:
"The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler".
Location: Shults Center Forum, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
Contact: 585-389-2371
Link: http://www.polishheritagerochester.org/docs/20120123-polish-heroes.pdf Thursday, March 01, 06:30pm (2 hours)
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1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour
Description:
1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour. Polish beer, red and white clothes.
Location: Back Nine Grill, 3500 East Avenue, Rochester, NY.
Contact: 585-267-7031
Link: http://www.thebackninegrill.com/ Thursday, April 05, 06:30pm (2 hours)
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1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour
Description:
1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour. Polish beer, red and white clothes.
Location: Back Nine Grill, 3500 East Avenue, Rochester, NY.
Contact: 585-267-7031
Link: http://www.thebackninegrill.com/ Thursday, May 03, 06:30pm (2 hours)
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1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour
Description:
1st Thursday Polish Happy Hour. Polish beer, red and white clothes.
Location: Back Nine Grill, 3500 East Avenue, Rochester, NY.
Contact: 585-267-7031
Link: http://www.thebackninegrill.com/