Join Professor Norman Davies as he explores the untold story of the Polish Second Corps of the Polish Armed Forces during the Second World War in a video lecture we produced by the Polish Cultural Institute for the Chelsea History Festival in UK – see:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/190871917601431/permalink/4932480170107225/
The Polish Second Corps, which fought under British command in the Italian Campaign of 1943-45, is best remembered for its heroic capture of the Abbey of Monte Cassino. But the details of its formation under General Anders in Russia and of its amazing feat of making its way to Italy via Iran, Iraq and Palestine, are less known.
Norman Davies recounts the remarkable odyssey of the ‘Anders Army’ and some of its more colourful members including the extraordinary women draiverki, the Jewish soldiers who joined the Zionist underground, and Wojciech the Bear.

2014-03-27 UWS Open Forum with Norman Davies

Ten years ago, on 19th December 2011, the General Assembly adopted the UN-Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. Human rights education promotes values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage all individuals to uphold their own rights and those of others. It develops an understanding of everyone’s common responsibility to make HR a reality in each community.
Between 2010 and 2019 I was the Foundation Convenor and Series Coordinator of nine annual International Human Rights Conference Series held in Australia, South Africa, Poland, Taiwan, USA, Chile, Holland and Canada.
The 10th conference was planned to be held in Nepal but unfortunately had to be cancelled because of the COVID pandemic. Let’s hope that we will be able to organise the 10th conference in 2023.

The Lao, Cambodian and Khmer Krom communities in New South Wales are launching a Joint Initiative to promote Australian values, to build stronger social cohesion between the three communities and the wider Australian community, to promote Australia’s Multicultural Statement launched by the Government in 2017 and to address recommendations by the Senate Report in 2021 relating to “Issues Affecting Diaspora Communities in Australia”.

The launch will be held at on Saturday, 5 February 2022, from 12.00noon to 3.00pm at the Multi-Purpose Hall, Lao Cultural Centre 711-715 Smithfield Road, Edensor Park NSW

For more information see the attached Invitation – Professor Ozdowski