[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5470]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           POLISH PLANE CRASH

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to express my 
sincere condolences to the people of Poland as they mourn the death of 
President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, and to the families and 
friends of the other 94 men and women who lost their lives in 
Saturday's airplane crash near Russia's Katyn Forest.
  Chicago is the second largest Polish city in the world, second only 
to Warsaw, and among those killed was Wojciech Seweryn, a Chicago 
sculptor who emigrated from Poland over three decades ago. Seweryn's 
father was one of over 20,000 Poles killed in the Soviet Union in the 
Katyn Forest in 1940. He was traveling with the Polish President to 
mark the 70th anniversary of the massacre.
  I join with Chicago's vibrant Polish American community and with 
Poland's friends around the world in mourning the loss of the 96 men 
and women who lost their lives on Saturday.

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