European Solidarność Center

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Gdańsk - Europejskie Centrum Solidarności (May 2014)

Europejskie Centrum Solidarności , the European Solidarność Center or European Solidarity Center (ECS), is the unit from a museum about the union, its central archive, a multimedia unit, established in autumn 2007 by the trade union federation of the same name, NSZZ Solidarność and the Polish Ministry of Culture in Gdansk Library and an education center. The facility consists of several newly designed and historical elements. Places steeped in history such as plac Solidarności with the monument to the fallen shipyard workers and the famous shipyard gate as well as the building of the industrial safety hall of the Gdańsk shipyard , which served the union activists as a conference hall during the legal phase of their work, are included. The construction of the ECS was funded by the European Union with 51 million euros. It opened on August 31, 2014.

director

The center has been headed by Basil Kerski since March 2011 . The former leader was the Dominican Maciej Zięba. The physicist, theologian and philosopher headed the Tertio Millennio Institute in Cracow and spread the ideas of the Polish Pope John Paul II. Zięba had been associated with the democratic opposition since 1973. In the 1980s he was an advisor to the trade union federation NSZZ “Solidarność” and a journalist for the weekly newspaper Tygodnik Solidarność .

Gratitude medal

In 2010, the center awarded the Medal Wdzięczności for the first time . This is an award to commemorate the events of August 1980 , to honor the people from all over the world who supported Poland in the struggle to regain freedom in the 1980s and who organized support committees for Solidarność. Bronisław Komorowski said the recipients of the medal had a share in the victory in the struggle for freedom and in the material from which the Polish-German friendship is woven.

The following people are on the medal: Lech Wałęsa - Chairman, Bogdan Borusewicz (Senate Marshal), Jerzy Borowczak for the European Solidarność Center, Zbigniew Bujak for Mazovia, Mirosław Chojecki as the coordinator of aid in the field of equipment from abroad, Władysław Frasyniuk for Lower Silesia, Tadeusz Jedynak for Upper Silesia, Stefan Jurczak for Lesser Poland, Bogdan Lis for Danzig, Andrzej Milczanowski for West Pomerania, Janusz Pałubicki for Greater Poland, Jan Rulewski for Bydgoszcz, Grażyna Staniszewska for Podbeskidzie and Danösto Winiarska-Kurdistan Region.

It was first awarded to Bernard Kouchner . On September 3, 2010, the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski presented medals of gratitude to ten Germans together with the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert . They included Wolfgang Stock , Wolfgang Templin , Ludwig Mehlhorn , Roland Jahn , Joachim Trenkner, Reinhold Vetter, Christian Semler , Helga Hirsch , Ruth Henning, Hans Henning Hahn and Elisabeth Weber. The winners had supported the Solidarność protest (e.g. through statements and deliveries) or published articles about Poland.

In 2017, the director of the Darmstadt German Poland Institute Dieter Bingen was awarded the medal.

Trivia

Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa has been using an office in the Solidarność Center since January 2015.

conflict

At the end of January 2019, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage , Piotr Gliński , requested that the ECS management add elements to the exhibition that correspond to the historical policy of the PiS, as well as introduce a deputy director designated by the ministry. In the event of cancellation, the annual subsidy should be reduced from 7 to 4 million zlotys. The management refused to comply with the minister's demands, and the missing amount of 3 million zlotys was collected in the public collection.

Award

Web links

Commons : European Solidarity Center  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Medals for German Solidarność supporters. Bundestag, August 30, 2010, accessed on March 1, 2011 .
  2. From Shakespeare to Solidarność ( memento of January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the magazine Wohin? There !. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  3. Edelrost needs fine additions in FAZ of September 8, 2013, page 30
  4. Program otwarcia. Europejskie Centrum Solidarności, accessed on September 11, 2014 (Polish).
  5. a b Medal of gratitude from the ECS (European Solidarity Center) for France's Foreign Minister. ECS June 7, 2010; archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; accessed on September 3, 2010 (German, Polish).
  6. a b Medal of Gratitude. ECS April 1, 2010, archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; accessed on September 3, 2010 (German, Polish): “On March 31, we completed the acceptance of the applications for the award of the medal of gratitude. This award is given to people from all over the world who organized support committees for Solidarność in the 1980s. Through their efforts we received charitable aid from all over the world, we got money, medical, polygraphic and radio equipment. The medal of gratitude established by the European Solidarność Center will be awarded in August, on the 30th anniversary of Solidarność's creation. "
  7. mk: Germans receive Solidarity medals. In: TheNews.pl. September 4, 2010, archived from the original on September 4, 2010 ; accessed on September 4, 2010 (English): "You have a share in our victory, in our struggle for freedom and in building the fabric of Polish-German friendship"
  8. ^ Medal of gratitude / Wdzięczności Medal. ECS, archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; accessed on September 3, 2010 (German, Polish).
  9. Gerald Praschl: Poland says thanks to eleven Germans. (No longer available online.) In: SUPERillu . Burda, September 3, 2010, archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; Retrieved September 3, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.superillu.de
  10. Solidarność Prize in FAZ from September 4, 2017, page 11
  11. Gazeta Wyborcza, February 4, 2019
  12. Gazeta Wyborcza, February 5, 2019

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