{"id":938,"date":"2014-10-09T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/?page_id=938"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:18:57","slug":"2010-toespraken-voorzitter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/en\/herdenkingen\/herdenkingen-2005-2014\/2010-toespraken-voorzitter\/","title":{"rendered":"2010-toespraken-voorzitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: large;\">Chairman foundation Driel-Polen: Mr. A.J.M. Baltussen<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fotos-toespraken-2010-ArnoBaltussen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span>Panie i Panowie Ladies &amp; Gentlemen Dames &amp; Heren<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Driel-Polen Foundation I would like to welcome you all to this commemoration, where we give special attention to the contribution of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade to the Battle of Arnhem &#8211; 66 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A special word of welcome to<br \/>\nThe 9 Polish Veterans, who could make the way to Driel from their home in Great Britain, Canada, USA and the Netherlands<br \/>\nalso to the widows of Polish veterans one of whom has come from Poland and two from the Netherlands<br \/>\nThe Ambassador of the Republic of Poland His Excellency Mr. Sta\u0144czyk<br \/>\nMr. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament for Poland and Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament<br \/>\nThe Ambassador of Great Britain and representatives from the United States of America and Canada<br \/>\nThe Queen\u2019s Commissioner of our province Mr. Cornielje<br \/>\nThe Mayoress of this municipality Mrs. Tuijnman<br \/>\nThe Commander of the Brig. Gen. S.F. Sosabowski\u2019s 6 Airborne Brigade &#8211; Brigade General Knap<br \/>\nThe representative of the Sosabowski family Mrs. Slawa Tomczyk \u2013 Sosabowska<br \/>\nGeorge Cholewczynski, author of several books related to general Sosabowski and his Brigade<br \/>\nThe representative of the British veterans Mr. Wilkinson<br \/>\nThe Mayors of the partner municipalities of Overbetuwe in Germany as well as Poland<br \/>\nMr. Wernard from Usingen in Germany and<br \/>\nMrs. Wallraff from Zulpich in Germany<br \/>\nand from Boleszkowice in Poland Mr. Wozniak<br \/>\nAll the British veterans present this afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 16 Polish veterans came to attend the commemoration. Given their age, this is an unprecedented number. This year we have 9 veterans in attendance. Once again, this is a big number, especially if we take into account that only around 90 veterans from the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade are still alive today, and all of them are nearly 90 years of age or even older.<\/p>\n<p>They returned to Driel back in 1945, to visit their fallen comrades and to behold the outcome of the heavy fighting in which they had been entangled. Ever since, several of these veterans have paid a visit to our town in September of each year.<br \/>\nThe increasing interest of their compatriots and young people must do them good.<br \/>\nAfter the wreath-laying ceremony, a number of young people taking part in the Arnhem International Youth Conference will read a poem written by one of the soldiers from the Brigade in the years directly after the war. At the end of the poem, he says: \u201cThe older we get, the more we dream of a series of further commemorative days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These veterans can now witness how we commemorate them, as well as the huge interest there is in this. Given the participation and presence of young people, they can be convinced that the commemoration will not just stop. In the meantime, we hope that they will be able to be in our midst during these days for another few years to come.<br \/>\nIn the context of the theme Education: \u2018A weapon for peace\u2019, around 90 young people have taken part in the Arnhem International Youth Conference in the past few days. Young people from 14 countries, including 23 young people from various parts of Poland. This conference should be given a more important place among the commemorations in this region.<\/p>\n<p>Young people have been given a prominent place during the commemorations in Driel, ever since the first commemoration took place in 1946. Once again this year, we can count on the attendance of a youth choir made up of children from the three primary schools in Driel. They have been accompanied by music from the orchestra that is made up of peers from Krakow &#8211; Promyki Krakowa.<br \/>\nRight now, they will sing a Polish song for us entitled \u201cPienkna nasza Polska ca\u0142a\u201d, which means \u201cOur beautiful Poland.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman foundation Driel-Polen: Mr. A.J.M. Baltussen Panie i Panowie Ladies &amp; Gentlemen Dames &amp; Heren On behalf of the Driel-Polen Foundation I would like to welcome you all to this commemoration, where we give special attention to the contribution of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/en\/herdenkingen\/herdenkingen-2005-2014\/2010-toespraken-voorzitter\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/downloads\/lees-meer3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wvrx-expand-full\" style=\"margin:0\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":5637,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2010-toespraken-voorzitter - Stichting Driel-Polen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/herdenkingen\/herdenkingen-2005-2014\/2010-toespraken-voorzitter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2010-toespraken-voorzitter - Stichting Driel-Polen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chairman foundation Driel-Polen: Mr. A.J.M. 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