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WHEREVER YOU LANDED

Find your community.

Polish parishes, clubs and diaspora groups exist almost everywhere Poles settled. Here's how to find yours.

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Communities built to last

Polish parishes & centres

Polish-language Masses, community halls and cultural centres, from the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) in London to the Polish parishes of Chicago and Toronto.

Saturday schools

Szkoły sobotnie teach Polish language, history and tradition to children born abroad. A directory is planned.

Folk dance & music groups

Zespoły: ensembles dancing the krakowiak, oberek and polonaise in regional costume.

Scouts & youth

Polish scouting (harcerstwo) has a long tradition abroad and is often the first Polish community young people meet.

Heritage & veterans

Associations remembering Polish airmen, soldiers and refugees of the Second World War, and the Poles who built communities after 1945.

Professionals & newcomers

Networks for those who moved after 2004, from nurses and builders to IT specialists and entrepreneurs.

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Building the directory

A searchable directory of Polish community groups, by country and city, is being built out now. If you run or know of a group that should be listed, email us and we will add it.
Diaspora stories

Voices from Poland abroad

A blog written by the diaspora, for the diaspora. Real stories of leaving, arriving and staying connected.

Family history

Where we came from

The village, the journey, the first job abroad. Tell us how your family's story began.

Life abroad

Polish, far from Poland

Wigilia in Chicago, a pączki queue in Glasgow, a Saturday school in Dublin. How do you keep it alive?

Going back

The return trip

Finding the family village, meeting cousins, tracing records. Share what you found.

Have a story to tell? Send us a few paragraphs and a photo, and we'll publish it here with your name.

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