Consulate General of Poland, New York City

The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City (Polish: Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nowym Jorku) is a consular mission of the Republic of Poland in the United States. It was inaugurated in 1919. The consulate is located in the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House at 233 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York. The Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York is Adrian Kubicki.^[2]

Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nowym Jorku Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York
The Joseph Raphael De Lamar House, seat of the Polish Consulate General in New York City
Location	Madison Avenue, New York City, United States
Address	233 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York 10016
Coordinates	40.7497°N 73.9812°W / 40.7497; -73.9812
Inaugurated	August 14, 1919; 105 years ago (1919-08-14)[1]
Consul General	Mateusz Sakowicz
Website	www.gov.pl

History

On August 14, 1919, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City was inaugurated, long before the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C.^[3][4] It was the first diplomatic post of Poland to be established in the United States.^[4][3]

In July 1945, Consul General Sylwin Strakacz repudiated the new communist Polish Provisional Government of National Unity, and resigned his post.^[4]

In December 1972, Poland purchased the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House at 233 Madison Avenue in Manhattan in New York City, New York, and reestablished the consulate at this location.^[4]

Jan Karski statue

In November 2007, the Consulate installed near its entrance as a permanent memorial a life-size statue of Jan Karski sitting on a bench, playing chess.^[5] During the Holocaust, at the direction of the Polish government-in-exile, Karski had in disguise and smuggled in by the Jewish underground entered the Warsaw Ghetto and observed Nazi atrocities against the Jews there, and the forced transport of Jews to the Nazi Belzec extermination camp in occupied Poland.^[5][6] Karski then traveled to England and the United States to warn the governments that the Nazis were exterminating Jews in Poland, and encourage them to do something to stop it.^[5][7] He died in 2000, as he was playing chess with a Polish diplomat while sitting on a park bench.^[5]

Consuls General of the Republic of Poland in New York City

Second Polish Republic

Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka

Urszula Gacek

Adrian Kubicki

• 1919 – Konstanty Buszczyński
• 1919–1920 – Jerzy Barthel de Weydenthal, Consul
• 1920 – Zdzisław Kurnikowski, Consul
• 1920–1925 – Stefan Ludwik Grotowski
• 1925–1928 – Sylwester Gruszka
• 1928 – Tadeusz Marynowski, Consul
• 1928–1929 – Eugeniusz Rozwadowski
• 1929–1935 – Mieczysław Marchlewski
• 1935 – Jerzy Matusiński
• 1935–1940 – Sylwester Gruszka
• 1941–1945 – Sylwin Strakacz

Polish People's Republic

• 1945–1947 – Eugeniusz Rozwadowski, acting head of the Consulate
• 1947–1953 – Jan Galewicz
• 1954–1959 – closure of the Consulate; activities suspended
• 1970 – re-establishment of the Consulate
• 1970–1974 – Kazimierz Ciaś
• 1975–1978 – Zbigniew Dembowski
• 1979 – Maksymilian Służewski, Consul
• 1979–1981 – Kazimierz Ciaś
• 1981–1985 – Waldemar Lipka-Chudzik
• 1985–1989 – Andrzej Olszówka

Third Polish Republic

• 1990–1996 – Jerzy Surdykowski
• 1997–2001 – Dariusz Jadowski
• 2001–2005 – Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska
• 2005–2010 – Krzysztof Kasprzyk
• 2010–2014 – Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka
• 2014–2016 – Urszula Gacek
• 2017–2019 – Maciej Golubiewski
• 2020–2024 – Adrian Kubicki^[8]
• 2024–present – Mateusz Sakowicz

See also

• Foreign relations of Poland
• List of diplomatic missions of Poland
• Poland – United States relations

References

1. Kupiecki, Robert; House, Scholar Publishing; Poland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of (2019). Through the Eyes of a Strategist and Diplomat: The Polish-American Relations post-1918. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. ISBN 9788365390806 – via Google Books.
2. "Consul General in New York - Poland in US - Gov.pl website". Poland in US.
3. "Register of the Poland. Konsulat Generalny (New York, N.Y.) records," Hoover Institution Library and Archives, 2003.
4. Robert Kupiecki (2019 ). Through the Eyes of a Strategist and Diplomat; The Polish-American Relations post-1918, Scholar Publishing House, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland.
5. Frank Milewski (November 14, 2007). "Polish hero who tried to stop the Holocaust remembered on the sidewalks of New York," Dziennik Polonijny.
6. Sewell Chan (April 16, 2009). "Street Corner Honors Witness to Holocaust," The New York Times.
7. "Monument to Jan Karski in New York City, NY, USA, 2007," The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art.
8. "Konsulat Generalny RP w Nowym Jorku". Naukowy.pl.

External links

• Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York (in English)