The appeal of the educationalists for the international protection of Polish families

As the expectation of the complete publication by media and journalists of the unprecedented appeal of Polish educators for the international protection of Polish families has not been satisfied, the Free Society Foundation presents the content of the appeal on the basis of the information obtained during the legal dispute with the employees of the office of the president Andrzej Duda for the public access to the appeal.

The Free Society Association points out that the media operating in Poland in the conditions of German financial influence and domination in the media industry consistently omit in their publications of the appeal its content covering German crimes against Polish children.

Open letter - Appeal

Dear Mister President,

In reference to the actions of officials from your Chancellery and of the government of the Republic of Poland to date, which should lead to children removed by the Jugendamt being placed in “culturally non-alien” families, we believe that this is less than a half-way solution.

We, the undersigned, as the academic community, appeal to the President to launch an international diplomatic campaign and to implement legal solutions aimed at returning to Poland children taken away to date by the German Jugendamt and similar organisations in other southern and northern European countries as well as at returning to Poland such children in whom these organisations develop an interest in the future and decide to take them away from their Polish parents.

It needs to be taken into consideration that children of Polish citizens temporarily staying abroad, i.e. without citizenship in the other state, still remain Polish citizens. Therefore, it is astounding that in essence such children are being appropriated by the countries of their temporary residence. Hence we appeal to the President to initiate a diplomatic campaign and relevant legal procedures as soon as possible to ensure that the need for the Jugendamt (or other similar organisations) to intervene, leading to the removal of children from their parents’ custody, ends in a direct transfer of such children to Polish embassies in the given country, which will then pass them to the Polish social welfare system.

We all remember the fate of around 200 - 250 thousand Polish children taken away from their parents by Germany during WW2 for the purpose of their Germanisation. After the war, the government of the Polish People’s Republic refrained from recovering such children, taken away in inhumane conditions. History cannot be reversed, but let the suffering and multiple fatalities among those children be a voice demanding that the fate of Polish children is not repeated in new political circumstances.

We believe that the Polish state, which provides wide-ranging material support to foreign citizens, is able to take all Polish children under its care. It should be the task of Polish judicature, here in Poland, to make decisions on what is to happen next with such children - naturally after verification of their family situation and after contacting their biological parents. The second part of our appeal is a postulate to immediately prohibit international adoptions, as in practice there is no certainty that the outcome will be positive for such children. A ban on international adoptions should be accompanied with an in-depth verification of the legality of the practices currently used in that area (bodies/foundations conducting them) and of the situation of children already put up for international adoption (nota bene, this is a requirement of the currently applicable Polish procedures, but it is usually not fulfilled).

Poles do not have an obligation to offer their children even in case of the most noble international offers; but they do have sufficient capabilities to look after and bring up every child who loses their family.

As teachers, we will gladly engage in the necessary correction of the Polish welfare system so that it is able to provide care for such children.

Prof. dr hab. Janina Kostkiewicz – Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Prof. dr hab. Franciszek Wojciechowski - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr hab. Anna Gaweł - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr hab. Beata Gola - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Palka - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr hab. Małgorzata Michel - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr hab. Dorota Pauluk - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr hab. Mariusz Sztuka - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr Barbara Łuczyńska - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr Małgorzata Piasecka - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr Bożena Czerska - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr Krzysztof Polak - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Dr Jolanta Nazaruk - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Prof. dr hab. Bogusław Śliwerski – Przewodniczący KNP PAN, Uniwersytet Łódzki, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Dr hab., prof. APS Jan Łaszczyk – Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Dr hab, prof. US Małgorzata Makiewicz – Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Prof. dr hab. inż Janusz Morbitzer - Akademia WSB w Dąbrowie Górniczej
Dr hab., prof. UMK Dorota Siemieniecka – Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Toruń
Prof. dr hab. Bronisław Siemieniecki – Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Toruń
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Juszczyk – Uniwersytet Śląski Katowice
Dr hab., prof. APS Józef Bednarek – Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Dr Ewa Lewandowska-Tarasiuk – Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Dr Zbigniew Łęski – Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. Im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr Justyna Bluszcz – Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Ks. dr hab., prof. UR Janusz Miąso – Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Dr Janusz Kłoniecki – Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M.G. Warszawa
Dr hab., prof. ChAT Marek Piotrowski – ChAT Warszawa
Dr hab., prof. UP Barbara Kędzierska – Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Gogołek – Uniwersytet Warszawski
Prof. dr hab. Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak – Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Dr hab. Jarosław Horowski – Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Toruń
Dr hab. Alina Rynio – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr hab., prof. KUL Ryszard Skrzyniarz – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II 3.
Dr hab. Wiesław Partyka – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Prof. dr hab. Marian Surdacki – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr Elżbieta Stoch – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr hab., prof. KUL Danuta Opozda – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Mgr Izabel Głodzik – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr Agnieszka Linca-Ćwikła – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr Aleksandra Borowicz – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Ks. Prof. dr hab. Marian Nowak – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Mgr Urszula Krzyżanowska - Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr Małgorzata Łobacz - Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Dr Sławomir Nazaruk – UM Lublin
Dr hab., prof. UP Andrzej Ryk – Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Katarzyna Potyrała - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Jolanta Zielińska - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Krzysztof Gurba - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr Agnieszka Lasota - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Joanna Łukasik - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr Olga Wyżga - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Adam Mikrut - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof.. UP Piotr Majewicz - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Danuta Wolska - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UP Jolanta Baran - Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr Agnieszka Suplicka - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Dr Joanna Dąbrowska - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Dr Łukasz Kalisz - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Prof. zw. dr hab. Elwira Kryńska - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Dr Anna Młynarczuk-Sokołowska - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Dr Artur Konopacki - Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Dr hab., prof. UP Paweł Sajdek – Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN Kraków
Dr hab., prof. UJD Wiesława Sajdek – Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr hab. Wiesław Wójcik - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr hab. prof. UJD Adam Olech - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr hab., prof. UJD Maciej Woźniczka – Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr Grzegorz Sitek - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr Ryszard Miszczyński - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr Mariusz Oziębłowski - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Mgr Michał Płóciennik - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa
Dr Henryk Popowski - Uniwersytet Hum-Przyr. im. Jana Długosza Częstochowa

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