TIMELINE BATTLE OF KATYN 1940 MEMORIAL JERSEY CITY 2018

 

APRIL 6, 2018

 

Krzysztof Nowak, Chairman of the 1940 Katyn Massacre Memorial Committee in Jersey City has been informed by J. Solomon, Councilor of the City Hall of the plans to relocate the monument from the Exchange Place.

 

April 8, 2018

 

During the celebration related to the upcoming anniversary of the 1940 Katyn massacre,

Krzysztof Nowak informed the audience of potential plans to remove the monument from Exchange Place.  Chairman Nowak also announced that a collection of signatures is prepared for a petition against the relocation of the monument.  In addition, Mr. Nowak sent a letter to the Planning Board, Zoning Board and JC City Council. 

 

Mrs. Boguslawa Huang, the director of the Polish School and a member of the Pulaski Parade committee in Jersey City, sent a letter of protest to the Jersey City Council.  At the same time, the Chairman issued a letter to the Jersey City Planning Board, Zoning Board and the Jersey City Council.

 

Krzysztof Nowak met with M. DeMarco, the president of a development company who announced that together with the city authorities he was planning to convert the square, where the monument stands, into a city park.  DeMarco emphasized that the appearance of the sculpture is disgustingly bleak and does not fit the area.  "I cannot imagine how mothers walking next to the monument, explain to their children what this memorial represents," stated DeMarco.

 

April 27

Jersey City Councilman, Richard Boggiano, posts on social media that during the April 26th meeting, he was informed of the plans to move the Katyń 1940 Memorial and to build a park on Exchange Place that he categorically opposed.  Councilman Boggiano announced that he would support the Polish community's opposition, including a protest at the monument.

 

April 30, 2018

 

Jersey City Mayor, Steven Fulop is announcing a planned project to remove the monument from Exchange Place.  The Polish community is uniting around activities aimed at disrupting these plans.  Krzysztof Nowak has repeatedly tried to schedule a meeting with Mayor Fulop.  Eventually, the meeting has been scheduled for May 2, 2018.

 

Chairman Nowak has invited the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in NYC, Maciej Gołubiewski, Tony Domino, and Boguslawa Huang.  Before the meeting Boguslawa Huang acquainted the councilors Salomon and Boggiano with the history of the 1940 genocide in the forest near Katyn.  Both councilors expressed their understanding of our relentless attitude to the monument and the place where the monument has stood since 1991.  Apparently, the scheduled meeting did not take place.  Mayor Fulop’s secretary informed the mayor had important matters to deal with.  Those gathered there decided to hold the meeting regardless of Fulop's absence.  The meeting was fruitful. We received verbal support from councilors Boggiano and Yun.   The media is beginning to inform about the plans to remove the monument and about the determined attitude of Polonia and the K. Nowak Committee. 

 

May 3

Dissatisfaction with Mayor Steven Fulop's plans to move the Katyń 1940 Monument was expressed by the Polish Ambassador to the United States, Piotr Wilczek, Polish Consul General in NYC, Maciej Gołubiewski and President of the Katyń 1940 Monument Committee, Krzysztof Nowak.

Opposing the removal of the monument were Rev. Nathaniel Legay, a prominent figure in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Joseph Swinson, the head of the Korean War Veterans of America. Polish Senat Speaker Stanisław Karczewski calls Jersey City Mayor Fulop's decision outrageous.

Mayor Steven Fulop, posts a comment on the social media "Twitter," where he insults the Speaker of the Senate, Stanislaw Karczewski, calling him an unjustified anti-Semite.  He also announces that the Katyń 1940 Memorial will be moved regardless of resistance from Polonia and official Polish factors.

 

May 7, 2018

 

Mayor Fulop in his Tweet insults the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, Karczewski, calling him unjustifiably anti-semitic. Meanwhile, the Polish community is planning demonstrations in defense of the monument on May 11, 12 and 13. Jersey City Councilman Richard Boggiano announced on his Facebook that the City Council

Resolution that stated the Katyn 1940 Monument would stand at a different site was amended by Ordinance 10/z/82.

 

May 8, 2018

 

Attorney Slawomir Platta, files a lawsuit in the federal court against Mayor Fulop. The lawsuit was also signed by: the author of the sculpture, Andrzej Pityński, Bart Bagniewski, a graduate of the Polish school at JC and Rutgers University, and Boguslawa Huang, director of the Polish school in JC. The lawsuit questioned the lack of transparency of the legal procedures related to the plans to remove the monument from Exchange Place and to build a park there.

 

May 10

The Mayor of the City of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, makes the news on his profile on "Tweeter" and describes plans to implement a park on Exchange Place, and assures that the Katyń 1940 Memorial will be properly displayed at another prominent location in Jersey City.

Protests have been planned for May 11, 12 and 13 as opposition to Mayor Fulop's decision.

 

May 11, 2018

 

Attorney Slawomir Platta announced on his Facebook profile that the Federal Court case regarding the blocking of the works on Exchange Place has been accepted and will be heard. Polonia protests at the monument. People from the Polish community expressed their opposition to the removal of the monument and the will to fight to keep it in its present place. Polish supporters full of energy came from Boston, New Britain, Stamford, New York and New Jersey.

Mayor Steven Fulop posted a message on social media that reads:

"Here is Steven Fulop, Eryk Lubaczewski - Executive Director of the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Maciej Gołubiewski, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York and Krzysztof Nowak, Chairman of the Katyń 1940 Monument Committee, met and reached an agreement to move the Katyń 1940 Monument to York Street, build a new park at the York Street Monument and lease the site from the city for 99 years, to be approved by the City Council, May 23, 2018.

Councilman Richard Boggiano confirmed on social media that this deal happened and would like to let all Poles, and others interested to know that they have been betrayed. At 6 o'clock in the evening there was a big gathering of young students from Polish schools, together with their teachers and parents.  The initiator of the gathering was the President of the Polish Supplementary School Headquarters, Dr. Dorota Andraka.

Permission from the City Council for such a large gathering was obtained by the Director of the Polish School in Jersey City, Boguslawa Huang.  The youth in patriotic performances paid tribute to the victims of the Katyn massacre and expressed their opposition to moving the monument to York Street.

 

May 12, 2018

 

The planned demonstration in front of the city hall of JC did not take place. The chairman of the Katyn 1940 Monument Committee, K. Nowak, canceled the Demonstration as he participated in a closed-door meeting with Mayor Fulop and the Consul of the Republic of Poland, Gołubiewski.

 

The results of this meeting were not made public, but from that moment the split in the Polish community caused by the arrangements at this meeting clearly showed up.  Unexpectedly, proposals for the new location of the monument are presented. Eryk Lubaszewski, President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Washington, played an unexplained and mysterious role in the negotiations for the cessation of the protests and the consent to remove the monument.

 

May 13, 2018

 

Attorney Slawek Platta and about 500 people from the Polish community who were against any plans to relocate the monument met at the monument. Then they marched in protest to the building of the City Hall of JC.

 

K. Nowak and his Katyn 1940 Monument Committee, and the Clubs of Gazeta Polska from New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York, unfortunately, did not participate in this protest.  This group of a dozen or so people started an intensive propaganda campaign supporting the concept of relocation of the monument. Contrary to about a thousand Polish supporters, who undertook an uncompromising battle to preserve the monument in Exchange Place, in a place so exclusive and worthy of the memory of the murdered. The proposed two other locations are unworthy and unrealistic from the point of view of construction engineering.   It is worth mentioning that only the club of Gazeta Polska from Stamford, CT led by Wladyslaw Mazur, Wojciech Mazur and Barbara  Wesołowska separated from other clubs of Gazeta Polska and supported the adamant majority of the Polish community; bravely opposing the relocation of the monument from the Exchange Place. This situation led to the breakdown of their club and a change in the group, which was approved by people such as Tadeusz Antoniak and Maciej Rusinski, who consider themselves to be in charge and make their own decisions.  Polonia asked for help from their experts to prepare a thorough analysis of the area for the new location of the monument.

 

May 16, 2018

 

On May 16, at the Katyn Memorial, a ceremony of laying flowers took place by the President of the Republic of Poland, A. Duda, who visited the USA.

 

The area around the monument was fenced and inaccessible to the Polish diaspora. The president met with Mayor Fulop. He ignored his citizens by not allowing them to meet.  Chairman Nowak was not included in the meeting with the Mayor.

 

May 18, 2018

 

First press conference at City Hall in Jersey City.

The conference was attended by: Mayor Steven Fulop, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in NYC, Maciej Gołubiewski, Eryk Lubaczewski, President of the Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, Krzysztof Nowak, President of the Katyn Committee and Celina Urbankowska, treasurer of the Katyn Committee. In their flaming speeches, the above-mentioned people tried to convince the crowds of the Polish diaspora that moving the monument to York Street was a good decision. There are even charts showing how beautifully arranged the place at the monument in this street will be.

During the press conference, Attorney Slawek Platta, who played a leading role in the defense of the Katyn Monument 1940, very much wanted to make a speech, unfortunately he was not allowed to speak.

 

May 23-24, 2018

 

Jersey City council first deliberates on the opinion of relocating the monument. The Polish diaspora appeared in the crowds, filling the entire room. In their speeches, 90% of those present did not agree to the removal of the monument except for a few people, such as Krzysztof Nowak, Celina Urbankowska, New Jersey Polish Newspaper Clubs, Maciej Rusinski, Chairman of the GP Club in New York, Marek Chroscieleweski, manager of the Polish National House in New York.

 

Attorney Slawomir Platta in his speech announced that we will fight to keep the monument in the current location. He also said that we will take a referendum action on this matter, if needed.  Blocking the city council's decisions through lawsuits was supposed to give us time to organize and prepare a petition to initiate the referendum. The referendum is financed by the city and in the event of a budget deficit, Platta warned councilors that it might be too costly for the city. His speech was a plan of action and a strategy for success, applauded by the Polish patriots present in the room.

 

Among others, the following spoke in defense of the monument:  Janusz Sporek, Slawomir Platta, Wojciech Mazur, Barbara Wesołowska, Krystyna Zamorska, Wieslaw Burdzy, Witold Rossowski, Jeanne Daly, Krystyna Piorkowska, Szymon Tolak.

 

The campaign of collecting signatures on a petition to hold a referendum was launched. A minimum of 6,700 valid signatures must be collected by the end of August 2018. About 5,000 Americans of Polish descent lived in Jersey City at the time. Therefore, it was necessary to address the petition to other national minorities and Americans in order to obtain the appropriate number of signatures. One of the groups was the NAACP, with whom Alicja Wozniak made contact. Attorney Slawomir Platta runs in the elections to the Senate in the State of New York. He engages his team to collect signatures on a referendum petition to defend the monument on Exchange Place. 

During the above-mentioned meeting, Szymon Tolak, Wojciech Mazur and Barbara  Wesołowska propose to Janusz Sporek to jointly organize and legalize a group of Polish diaspora under this leadership, who will support Patron Platta in all possible activities to protect the monument. Janusz Sporek agrees and promises to select people responsible for the formalities related to the registration of the group.

 

May 24, 2018

 

Krzysztof Nowak removes Boguslawa Huang from the Committee of the Katyn 1940 Monument, that he presides for Boguslawa joining Slawomir Platta’s group and being one of the signatories of Platta’s lawsuit against Fulop.

 

May 26, 2018

 

After a series of meetings, an initiative group was selected that was called the Committee for the Protection of the Katyn Monument and Historical Objects.  The initiative group includes its Chairman Janusz Sporek and Wojciech Mazur, Barbara Wesołowska, Szymon Tolak, Jacek Kopczynski, Teresa Pesky and Malgorzata McGrath.  Teresa Pesky, Malgorzata McGrath and Jacek Kopczyński are responsible for the registration of the committee in Trenton.  Composition of the Committee for the Protection of the Katyn Monument and Historical Objects:  Chairman- Janusz Sporek; Vice-Chairwoman # 1 Teresa Pesky; Vice-Chairman #2 Wojciech Mazur; Treasurer Jacek Kopczynski (Jeanne Daly).  Initiative group:  Barbara Wesołowska, Szymon Tolak, Margaret McGrath, Alicja Wozniak, Boguslawa Huang, Regina Klimczuk, Iwona Rachelski, Piotr Nawrot, Jolanta Kozinska, Mariusz Bielski and Jerzy Szpak.

 

 

June 13-14, 2018

 

Another meeting of the JC City Council regarding the monument was held and another vote on the relocation of the monument was voted against by councilors Boggiano and Yun.  The decision to move the monument was supported by the Clubs of Gazeta Polska from New Jersey, Philadelphia chairman Tadeusz Antoniak, New York chairman Maciej Rusinski, Marek Chroscielewski and the Monument Committee headed by Nowak.  The division between the defenders of the monument centered around Platta and Sporek, and the opponents related to Mayor Fulop, is already clear, and in Poland, Tomasz Sakiewicz and Gazeta Polska offer the option of resigning from the current location of the monument in favor of a compromise with Mayor Fulop.  The ones in charge of Gazeta Polska’s Clubs such as T. Sakiewicz as the leader of the Polish community, Platta and Sporek group are reduced. Politicians in Poland, along with those who represent them in the US, decided that the struggle to keep the monument as the current spot was pointless and one should agree to a different location. Among the speakers at the meeting were: Janusz Sporek, Slawomir Platta, Boguslawa Huang, Jacek Kopczynski, Mariusz Bielski, Victoria Cambranes, Maria Scariatti.

 

June 14, 2018

 

The Committee for the Protection of the Katyn Monument and Historical Objects has been registered in Trenton by Teresa Peski.   Janusz Sporek is registered as President.  Jeanne Daly signed as Treasurer.

 

Boguslawa Huang together with Regina Klimczuk and Krystyna Gadowska formed a team of volunteers to collect signatures for the petition in defense of the monument.  Father Canon, Józef Urban, made the rooms available for the activities of the staff of volunteers - as a gathering point.

 

The forms of the collected petitions were notarized by Charles Balcer.  Permanent volunteers were:  Michal Krzemien, Boguslawa Huang, Regina Klimczak, Krystyna Gadowska, Stefania McCall, Rita Mcdermot, Slawek Okon, Piotrek Ulazka, Bartek Bagniewski, Irena Gordon, Teresa Burnat. 

Every weekend, the parishioners of the church of St. Anthony and parishioners from the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, signed jointly.  The parishioners were effectively mobilized by the parish priests:  Fr. Canon Józef Urban and Fr. Jerzy Zasula.

 

Polish residents of Jersey City who collected signatures for the petition were: Piotr Polkowski, Janina Lazarz, Teresa Miesak, Ewa Slusarczyk, Maria Tyryllo, Julianna Wisniewski, Krystyna Zadroga, Viktor Murga, Halina Partyka, Halina and Stanislaw Kowalski, Krystyna Bladek.

 

Jersey City: Daniel Merchel, Ela Slugocka, Leon Merchel Czubek

Mary McGavin, Pat Mignore, Mauren Onel, Joyce Adams, Marie Scariatti joined the fight for the monument and collected signatures for the petition.

 

Volunteers from outside Jersey City:  Alice Wozniak, Suzanne Mazurczyk, Malgorzata and John McGrath, Teresa Peski and Viktoria Aleniewski who was the oldest volunteer. Moreover, volunteers from the following states joined the collection of signatures:  New York presented by Bartek Szymanski, Malgorzata Ciuraszkiewicz, Barbara and Waldemar Kapkowski, Connecticut represented by Wojciech Mazur and Tomasz Mazur.

 

The action of Collecting signatures continues. It is attended by Polish women and Poles from New York, New Jersey and Wojciech Mazur with his son Tomasz from Connecticut.  The largest number of signatures is collected by Attorney Slawek Platta election stuff and volunteers.  About 2,000 signatures are followed by our honorary member, Michal Krzemien, who despite being in a wheelchair, collects about 1,000 signatures.

Jersey City volunteers: Z&Z Boguszewski, Anna and Krzysztof Kozuch, Wiktor Murga, Agnieszka Skiba, Julia Skiba,

 

Janusz Sporek, Slawek Platta and Jacek Kopczynski worked closely with the group of volunteers.  Attorney Slawomir Platta, while he was running for the parliamentary elections in one of the districts of New York, delegated a group of employees of his electoral office to collect signatures.

 

September 9, 2018

 

Krzysztof Nowak wrote a letter to the Bishop of the Diocese of Newark, in which he accused the parish priest of St. Anthony, Fr. Jozef Urban of his involvement in political matters, allowing use of the parish room for meetings. In the parish hall there was a base of volunteers collecting signatures for a petition to defend the monument. 

 

September 12 -13, 2018

 

Another Jersey City Council meeting.  The Polish community abroad is losing the Monument.  Ultimately City Councilors, except  Richard Boggiano and Michael Yun, with the cooperation of Mayor Fulop, the Clubs of Gazeta Polska represented by Maciej Rusinski and Tadeusz Antoniak, the Polish American Congress represented by Andrzej Burghardt and John Czop, the Committee of Krzysztof Nowak and Celina Urbankowska supported by the Consul of the Republic of Poland in New York Maciej Gołubiewski decision to move the Monument Katyn 1940 near the stinky sewage drain on York Street, where a storm well discharging storm water to the Hudson Bay. 

 

The place is disgusting, the site and smell of street dirt and algae, it is hardly visible and not quite frequented.  The erection of the monument with its dimensions and weight is questioned by the construction specialists and involved on the side of KOPK & OH – Janusz Sporek.  The site must require large and costly reinforcement works the City Council did not consider. This location is primarily a disgrace to the dignity and beauty of this monument, and a disgrace to the memory of all brutally murdered heroes.

 

Among the speakers at the meeting were:  Janusz Sporek, Sławomir Platta, Alicja Wozniak, Krystyna Bladek, Teresa Pesky, Jacek Kopczynski, Barbara Wesołowska, Szymon Tolak, Jerzy Szpak, Wojciech Mazur.

 

The signatures after the second round of collection are added and it turns out that we have 10,000 valid signatures.  The required 6,700 signatures were exceeded so much that it was already a guarantee for a referendum. 

 

The Polish community, led by Patron Platta and Janusz Sporek, organized in the Committee for the Protection of the Katyn Monument and Historical Objects, has achieved what no social organization in Jersey City has ever achieved in over 10 years.  Not only have we obtained 6,700 signatures, but we have achieved an unprecedented level of 10,000 valid signatures. The councilors favorable to us, even those who voted against our postulates, were full of admiration and respect. 

 

September 13, 2018

 

Consul Gołubiewski, for reasons and arguments unknown to us, called for the referendum to be canceled.  The president of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Eryk Lubaczewski, tries to convince Janusz Sporek that he can become a hero of the Polish diaspora if he announces his resignation from the referendum.  Janusz Sporek ridicules this proposal and demands that Lubaczewski stop phone calls, text messages and e-mails. 

 

September 16, 2018

 

The Polish community gathers at the monument to commemorate and condemn the aggression of Soviet Russia against Poland, September 17, 1939.  Speeches are delivered by Janusz Sporek, Councilor Boggiano and Jeanne Daly, in harsh words condemning the decision to remove the monument and calling all Poles and Americans living in Jersey City to a referendum.  Gazeta Polska and the Polish American Congress are boycotting the ceremony.  A propaganda campaign from Poland is underway, slandering KOPK & OH for alleged ties to the Russian agency.  At the head of those who spat on us were the Clubs of Gazeta Polska and their Polish boss, Tomasz Sakiewicz. 

 

October 7, 2018

 

Boguslawa Huang, delegated by the Sporek Committee, registered earlier with our committee for the march in the Pulaski Parade, which on that day was led by Slawomir Platta and Janusz Sporek in crowds on that day along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. 

 

Officials of the Polish Government:

Consul Gołubiewski and the Minister of the Chancellery of the President, Adam Kwiatkowski, leave the rostrum while the crowd of defenders of the monument is marching and turning their backs. They sit on chairs under the stand and play with their phones, and pretend not to see the Committee.

 

November 8, 2018

 

Breakthrough;

Mayor Fulop decides to negotiate with the Sporek Committee and Patron Platta on the cancellation of the referendum on the monument in exchange for the consent of the City Council to keep the Monument on Exchange pace for eternity (99 years).  The reason is the city’s ruined budget that not only does not have the money to move the monument, but also needs referendum support to finance Jersey City schools.  Our referendum would have priority and, regardless of success or failure, it would block the possibility of a referendum settlement of the city’s finances, which would ultimately block finances completely and lead to the closure of schools.

 

Janusz Sporek on behalf of KOPK & OH and Slawek Platta agreed to such a solution.  They make a proposal to draft a new act together with Jersey City Councilors.

 

November 16, 2018

 

Local activist, Maria Scariatti, files a lawsuit in Jersey City against Mayor Fulop, a lawsuit that could thwart the agreement reached.  The lawsuit is politically inconvenient for Fulop and has a negative impact on the monument case and further negotiations.  Thus, the agreement could be canceled, which would destroy all efforts of the Polish diaspora.  Her attitude is supported by Jeanne Daly and Victoria Cambranes.  Platta and Sporek are trying to persuade Maria Scariatti to withdraw the lawsuit. At the same time, they assure the Mayor that the Polish community abroad and KOPK & OH is not involved in the lawsuit.  Mayor understands our position and continues the discussion. 

At the same time (end of November 2018), Andrzej Burghardt, John Czop and Stanislaw Sliwowski are meeting, councilors Boggiano, and Yun trying to postpone the approval of the law on the inviolability of the monument on Exchange Place from December 2018 to spring 2019.  Everyone involved in the discussions about law rejected the suggestions describing it as dangerous manipulation. The dialog Mayor - Committee continues. 

At the Sunday conference of the Polish Newspaper Clubs in Stamford, CT at the anniversary of the imposition of the Martial Law on December 13, 1981, Wojciech Mazur gave a speech about his activities in the anti-communist underground. Wojtek informed the audience about our victory in the fight for the Katyn Memorial 1940 and invited all conference participants to the last meeting with the City Council in Jersey City.  Sadly, he was not allowed to pass the message aloud, the microphone was taken away from him.  The authors behind of this hideous censorship were: Tadeusz Antoniak and Maciej Rusinski.  The clubs of Gazeta Polska, Consul Gołubiewski and others who revealed the matter of the monument were completely discredited.

 

December 19 -20

 

At the last City Council meeting after a vote nine to one, an act was adopted where the Katyn 1940 Monument was officially confirmed to remain at the Exchange Place for eternity (99 years).  Those in charge of Gazeta Polska Clubs were not present at this meeting.  On the contrary, Krzysztof Nowak and John Czop showed up.  Despite the differences presented since May 13, they calmly accepted the news of our victory.  For reconciliation, Nowak and Czop were invited by the Committee for the Protection of the Katyn Monument and Historical Objects, to have the photo taken with the group. 

 

 

JERSEY CITY LIST OF DEFENDERS OF THE KATYN 1940 MONUMENT FROM 2018

Aleniewska Victoria, Balcer Charles, Bielski Julia, Bielski Mariusz, Bladek Krystyna, Blusewicz Bogdan

Bober Marek, Boggiano Richard, Burdzy David, Burdzy Wieslaw, Cierkosz Andrzej, Ciuraszkiewicz Malgorzata, Fryzel Jan, Godowska Krystyna, Huang Boguslawa, Janosik Zbigniew, Kapkowski Barbara, Kapkowski Waldemar, Klimczak Mirolaw, Klimczuk Regina, Knap Krzysztof, Knapik Dariusz, Kopczynski Jacek, Kowalski Halina Stanisław, Kozinska Jolanta, Łukasik Zbigniew, Maksimiak Teresa, Marzena Czyż, Maślanka Wojciech,

Tomasz Mazur, Mazur Wojciech, Władysław Mazur,  Mazurczyk Suzanne, McGrath John, McGrath Margaret, Mirosław Masiak, Myssura Jerzy, Myssura Krystyna, Nadwani Rekha, Nawrot Piotr, Okon  Slawek, Okulus Janson, Okulus Barbara, Ostrowska Iwona, Ostrowski Wojciech, Peski Teresa, Peski Dan, Piorkowska Krystyna, Pityński Andrzej, Platta Sławomir, Plucinski Anna, Promowicz Stanisław, Rachelska Iwona, Richardson Vernon, Slusarczyk Ewa, Solowiej Jan, Staszewski Zygmunt, Szpak Jerzy, Szplitgejber Alicja, Szplitgejber Andrzej, Szybowski Tomasz, Szymański Bartek, Tolak Szymon, Wesołowska Barbara, Wojtczak Kinga, Wozniak Alice, Wyderka Rafał, Zagroda Kristen, Zamorska Krystyna, Stanislaw Promowicz

 

List of participants at the 2018 Jersey City Council Meeting to speak for the monument:

 

1. Robert Marguies

2. Yvonne Balcer

3. Dan Sicardi

4. Kristen Zadroga Hart

5. Alice Wozniak

6. Jay Crafferty

7. Paul Gancarz

8. Emilia Misiura

9. Witold Rosowski

10. Mariusz Bielski

11. Christopher Nowak

12. Jerzy Szpak

13. Luciano Burdzy

14. Edward Pierwola

15. John Czop

16. Victoria Cambrames

17. Jack Kopczynski

18. Elżbieta Slugocka

19. Krystyna Bladek

20. Wojciech Mazur

21. Janusz Sporek

22. Jeanne Daly

23. Stefania McCall

24. Michael Krzemien

25. Oscar Lakra

26. Rudoph Daniels

27. Barbara Wesołowska

28. Irena Kucab

29. Margaret McGrath

30. Lukasz Mellorowich

31.  Andrzej Burghardt

32. Krystyna Piorkowski

33. Willie Keaton

34. Will Guzman

35. Mashuna Harley

36. Paulette Gordon

37. Phyllis Gordon

38. Bartek Szymanski

39. Suzanne Mazurczyk

40. Szymon Tolak

41. Romuald Magdea

42. Victoria Aleniewska

43. Maria Scariati

44. Kinga Wojtczak

45. Mike Kulowski

46. Slawek Platta

47.