This website is about the Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine (1845-1848), which is located at the Hyde Park Barracks, on Macquarie Street, Sydney.
Author: KHI
Calling all cartoonists, painters and animators
Kosciuszko Heritage is looking for cartoonists, painters and animators to assist in the production of a video about Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
For the last few months, Kosciuszko Heritage has been working on a DVD-documentary titled Kosciuszko in Tsarist Captivity. This was the most painful and least explored part of the life of Kosciuszko: a hero defeated by brute force, but morally victorious.
Hawaii 2014: in Strzelecki’s footsteps (part one)
Felix Molski, a Kosciuszko Heritage committee member, travelled to Hawaii last year and made a journey following the footsteps of Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki.
Paul Edmund Strzelecki and His Team: Achieving Together
Edited by Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek and Lukasz Swiatek
Publication date: April 2009
Festival to honour Strzelecki
Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki will be remembered and honoured during the 2015 PolskaÉire Festival.
The event, which runs from March 21 – 29 nationwide in Ireland, aims to “champion the diversity that Polish people bring to Ireland”. It has been established to coincide with the UEFA Republic of Ireland vs.…
Symbol of Freedom and Honor: Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Click here to see the trailer on YouTube
This 30-minute documentary film, which features previously unpublished information about the Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki monument in Jindabyne, is divided into three themed sections: political, historical and moral.
Blum Foundation grant
Kosciuszko Heritage has received a grant of $3950 from the Blum Foundation.
The grant will be used to produce a half-hour documentary about Thaddeus Kosciuszko, in English- and Polish-language versions, in 2015.
Kosciuszko Heritage at Christmas festival
Kosciuszko Heritage was present at the annual Polish Christmas Festival in Darling Harbour, in Sydney, on December 7.
It shared a stall with Joanna Hempel, the author of the new book Feet of Wax.
Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek, the President of Kosciuszko Heritage, ran the stall, selling items ranging from music CDs to books: all produced by Kosciuszko Heritage.
A visit to the Strzelecki Middle School
Felix Molski, a member of Kosciuszko Heritage, visited the P. E. Strzelecki Middle School in Poznan, Poland, on November 7, during his travels around the world in the footsteps of Strzelecki and Kosciuszko.
Felix, the author of The Best of Human Nature: Strzelecki’s Humanitarian Work in Ireland, gave a presentation about the activities of the middle school’s patron, Sir P.…
The Strzelecki map-finder’s visit
The man who discovered the legendary Strzelecki map has paid Kosciuszko Heritage a special visit.
David Branagan, an Australian academic and geologist, met with Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek, the President of Kosciuszko Heritage, and Felix Molski and Andrzej Kozek, both committee members.