Press Releases 2006
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Polish Manuscripts Come Home
29 August 2006On August 28, American Neal Pease presented a box containing 17 thirteenth century letters to the deputy head of Poland's National Archives, Professor Wladyslaw Stepniak, at Okecie International airport in Warsaw. Mr. Pease is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and worked with Ewa Barczyk, director of libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to get the letters back to Poland. The letters were lost after the evacuation of Wrocław during World War II and were brought to the United States by George G. Gavin, a Milwaukee native serving in the 347th Corps of Engineers in 1945. When Gavin died in 1998 his son, Philip, decided the letters belonged in their country of origin. Ambassador Ashe welcomed Mr. Pease, Ms. Barczyk, and their children to the Embassy on August 30.
From left: Kristina Pease, Ewa Barczyk, Ambassador Ashe, Neal Pease, and Alexander Pease |  (AP photo/Alek Keplicz) | ||
