“Victory over Japan Day” (V-J Day), was designated on August 15 and marked the end of the Pacific phase of World War II. The first Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. In July, the United Nations Charter was ratified by the United States Senate with an 82 to 2 vote. This was the first crossing of the Rhine River by an invading army since Napoleon! May eighth was “V-E Day”…”Victory in Europe Day”, the day in which the German high command signed unconditional surrender documents in Berlin. In March, the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine River was finally crossed but only at a high cost to Allied men which included Polish troops. 1945 was a monumental year in world history since it was a year of extremely important and dramatic events which shaped the world! In February, a secret meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, the “Big Three”, was held at Yalta, and Poland was betrayed. They’re much more likely to talk about the gains that have been achieved rather than the pain they suffered.”Īuthor: Arthur Parks, former First Vice President of the Polish Arts Club and member of the club for fifteen years, Grove City college, B.A., University of Notre Dame, M.A.ġ945 was sixty years ago, the year in which the Polish Arts Club was founded. “The women and members of ethnic groups who were the objects of acute discrimination even as they served their country remember the hurt, but they have not allowed it to cripple them, nor have they invoked it as a claim for special treatment now.
60 Years of the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo, 1945 - 2005:
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