Lodz Museum Curators Maja Jakobczyk (left) and Cezary Pawlak (right) with Wanda Urbanska, with Jan Karski portrait
In August, Jan Karski US Campaign Director Wanda Urbanska and website designer Jane Robbins visited Poland. In Warsaw, they met with Polish History Museum partners Ms. Ewa Wierzyńska, Ms. Dorota Szkodzinska, and Mr. Robert Kostro to discuss Campaign strategy, website development and other crucial aspects of the Campaign that are either underway or in the planning stages. Meetings were held with the Director of the American Department at the Polish Foreign Ministry, Mr. Piotr Ogrodzinski, and his colleague Ms. Elzbieta Frister, and at the American Embassy with Mr. Craig Conway, Mr. Kevin Kabumoto and Mr. Frankie Sturm.
During a welcome reception in Warsaw at the Boutique B&B on Smolna Street, Campaign principals were introduced to 40 influential Polish and international guests, including Polish Chief Ombudsman Irena Lipowicz, Polish Consul General Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Ms. Stefanie Seltzer of the Federation of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Dr. Katarzyna Pisarska, director of the European Academy of Diplomacy, Austrian Ambassador Ruth Pearce and Polish Senator Barbara Borys-Damiecka.
Ms. Urbanska also attended the 'Irena Sendlerowa Award For Improving the World' ceremony; the top award was presented to Ms. Grazyna Ferenc, a history teacher in Kety and a tour guide at the National Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Additionally, Ms. Urbanska and Ms. Robbins visited the city of Lodz - Jan Karski's birthplace and hometown - where they met with Curators of the Museum of the City of Lodz Maja Jakobczyk and Cezary Pawlak who conducted a private tour of the Jan Karski room in the Museum.
