The Color of Courage
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December 7, 2023 – Author Julian Kulski Featured in New Netflix Series – The inspiring story of Polish WWII hero Julian Kulski, author of The Color of Courage, is set to reach a global audience through the upcoming Netflix series World War II: From the Frontlines. The first episode of the series will highlight Kulski’s extraordinary bravery during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Germans. Click here for the series trailer. Read the entire article online or in pdf….

 

December 1–3, 2023 – Nashville, TN – 2023 NCSS Conference – Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated  copies of The Color of Courage and some of its other titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with two small posters of the Polish Air Force squadron insignia that will soon be for sale in our online store, which were given away to teachers. Cecilia Glembocki, who was one of the volunteers manning the booth, said the books were in such demand that they were all  gone by the end of the first day!

 

November 5, 2023 – The Color of Courage Presented at Polish Museum of America – A copy of The Color of Courage by Julian Kulski was presented to Scoutmaster and President of the Board of the Polish Museum of America, Richard Owczesny, by Bozena Bienias who had filmed an interview with Kulski for a documentary about Poland in World War II. The book is currently on display in the library of the Polish Museum of America.

 

 

December 2–4, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA – Polish Perspectives at 2022 NCSS Conference – Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated several copies of The Color of Courage and some of its other titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with two small posters of the Polish Air Force squadron insignia that will soon be for sale in our online store, which were all given away to teachers. 

 

August 12, 2021 – Passing of Julian Kulski – It is with great sorrow that we report the death of Julian Kulski, author of The Color of Courage—A Boy at War: The World War II Diary of Julian Kulski. Mr. Kulski died at home in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, August 12, 2021 at age 92, after a year-long illness. We are privileged and honored to have known and worked with Mr. Kulski. Funeral services were held in Washington, D.C. at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on September 17, 2021. Additional funeral ceremonies were held in Poland in early October, and were official, with a military honor guard accompanying burial of Mr. Kulski’s ashes in the Kulski family tomb at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

This indomitable, courageous and gracious gentleman was recruited into the Polish Underground Army at age 12, undertook a secret mission into the Warsaw Ghetto with his commander to liaise with Jewish resistance leaders at age 13, was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo at age 14, fought as a commando in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising at age 15, and ended the war in a German POW camp from which he escaped at age 16. He made his way to England, where he had to learn English, then to the U.S. where he worked his way through Yale University, obtaining both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture, followed years later by a doctorate in Urban Planning from the Warsaw Institute of Technology.

Mr. Kulski built a successful career as an architect, in both his own private practice and working around the world on projects as a consultant for the World Bank. He is the author of several books and more than 100 articles in professional journals. Mr. Kulski led the urban and regional planning programs at Notre Dame University and at George Washington University, and later established the first city planning program at Howard University.

He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Polish government, including the highly prestigious Cross of Valor, the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Merit, Silver Cross of Merit with Swords, the Home Army Cross, the Polish Army Medal (four times), and the Cross of the Warsaw Uprising.

Julian Kulski was a lifelong patriot of both his birth and adopted homelands, Poland and the U.S., and a fervent champion of freedom and democracy. In his Epilogue to The Color of Courage, Mr. Kulski concludes: “The fight for freedom does not cease with the winning or losing of individual battles, but is timeless. It does not take long to turn freedom-loving people into slaves under a totalitarian dictatorship….This makes me certain that no amount of effort, no amount of resistance, and no amount of tears is too much in defense of liberty.”

We salute this great hero of WWII. RIP after a life well-lived, Julian Kulski.

 

January 28, 2020, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, 3310 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7342 – Julian Kulski’s book The Color of Courage is the subject of a symposium hosted by the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida, titled “Childhood Agency in Julian Kulski’s WWII Diary.” This symposium is part of the “WWII: Beyond the Battlefields – CES Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII,” and is open to the public. This talk by Corinne Matthews, Ph.D. Candidate, explores how Kulski demonstrates childhood agency as he fully participates in, and even leads, acts of resistance to the German occupation. Ultimately, Kulski’s record demonstrates the efficacy of children working both alone and in conjunction with adults to resist tyranny. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1498202083672141/?active_tab=about

 

November 23–26, 2019 – San Francisco, CA – 2019 ASEEES Convention – Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2019 convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for the tenth year in a row. It was a great opportunity to showcase The Color of Courage and all our other titles, meet old friends, and make new ones! Attending on behalf of Aquila Polonica were president Terry Tegnazian and creative director Ewa Wojciak.

 

November 22–24, 2019 – Austin, TX – Polish Perspectives at 2019 NCSS – The American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC) organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2019 Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies.  Several thousand social studies teachers attended, and browsed more than 200 booths. As in past years, Aquila Polonica was pleased to donate copies of The Color of Courage and some of its other titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with a short brochure of our Aquila Polonica titles and a flyer we’ve created titled “Poland in WWII: Quick Facts”—which is a quick summary of the key aspects of Poland’s role as one of the Allies in WWII. Books, DVDs and flyers were given away to teachers before the Conference’s end. Photos below: Aquila Polonica titles on display in the Polish Perspectives booth; teacher holding “Poland in WWII: Quick Facts” and Aquila Polonica brochure, with ACPC’s Ray Glembocki.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 23, 2019 – World Book Day – Today is World Book Day! Established in 1995, April 23 is dedicated to book lovers around the world, to celebrate and promote reading habits, publishing and copyright.

 “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami