Bolesławiec City Hall:
In recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of the city of Bolesławiec, the title “Honoured for Their Service to the City of Bolesławiec” was awarded to: Wanda Draj, Helena Strzelczak-Kunicka, Halina Waniak, Zygmunt Brusiło.
Below, we present profiles of those honoured for their service to the City of Bolesławiec, prepared by the Bolesławiec municipal authorities.
Zygmunt Brusiło
A graduate of the University of Wrocław, where he studied history, and of postgraduate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław. In 1964, he began his professional career at the General Secondary School in Bolesławiec, where he taught history and knowledge about Poland; from 1972 to 1975, he served as its headmaster. From 1975 until his retirement, he was headmaster of the Building Schools Complex.
From the moment he moved to Bolesławiec and began working there, he was actively involved in social activities for the benefit of the city and region. For many years, he was a tour guide in Lower Silesia, working closely with the Bolesławiec branch of PTTK. He promoted knowledge about the region, including as the author and co-author of numerous publications. As a teacher, he passed on knowledge of “small homelands” to successive generations.
Since the 1980s, as a member of the Society of Bolesławiec Enthusiasts (TMB) and the Lower Silesian Social and Cultural Society (DTSK, since 2015 the Lower Silesian Regional Society – DTR) in Wrocław, he began to pursue his passion for regional studies more extensively. Since 1992, he has served as president of TMB, and for several terms he has also been a member of the authorities of DTSK (DTR).
In the journal “Lower Silesia”, published by DTSK (DTR), he contributed articles on teaching regional knowledge and the history of Bolesławiec, including an article on the settlement of re-emigrants from Yugoslavia in the Bolesławiec Land. Actively involved in TMB, he was also a member of the editorial team of the monthly “Voice of Bolesławiec”, published from 1992 to 1997, where he published articles about the history and contemporary life of the city. In 1996, Z. Brusiło, as one of the editors of “Voice of Bolesławiec”, took part in Warsaw in a meeting between representatives of the regional press and President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
In 2008, Z. Brusiło co-organised the ceremonial 30th-anniversary celebrations of TMB and the accompanying jubilee exhibition. He represented TMB several times at national congresses of regionalists and participated in dozens of conferences organised by other regional associations across the country. In 1997, DTSK entrusted him with organising the 20th Lower Silesian Regional Meetings, whose main theme was regionalists and culture; in 2003, he organised the 26th Lower Silesian Meetings of Regionalists, devoted to regional identity and European integration.
He was one of the authors of the 2001 publication “Bolesławiec – An Outline of the City’s Monograph”, the first extensive post-war study devoted to the history of Bolesławiec. When the “Bolesławiec Yearbook” was established in 2008, he became a regular contributor of articles on the history of Bolesławiec and the region.
Z. Brusiło was also very active in the Bolesławiec Senior Citizens’ Council.
TMB’s establishment of the first contacts with former residents of the city, associated in the Homeland Group (Bundesheimatgruppe Bunzlau zu Siegburg), led in 1992 to the beginning of official cooperation between the associations and subsequently between the cities of Siegburg and Bolesławiec. These contacts made it possible to acquire many valuable historical materials and significantly expand knowledge of the city’s past.
In 2012, TMB, with the support of the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, organised an exhibition at the Municipal Public Library summarising 20 years of cooperation with Siegburg. The Bolesławiec exhibition on the cooperation was also presented in Siegburg. Many materials provided by German partners were used, mainly concerning Rev. Paul Sauer — the last German Catholic parish priest in Bolesławiec, until 1946. In 2004, Z. Brusiło was a speaker at a Polish-German academic conference devoted to this figure and co-author of the post-conference publication. From then on, he supported the efforts of the Homeland Group from Siegburg to honour Rev. Sauer with a commemorative plaque in Bolesławiec.
Under Z. Brusiło’s leadership, TMB pursued and achieved the following important goals and tasks:
- its own calendars, brochures, graphics depicting historic monuments, postcards, the monthly “Voice of Bolesławiec” from 1992 to 1997, and the publication “Twenty Years of TMB” in 1998 were issued;
- under TMB’s patronage, funds were raised to purchase equipment for the hospital, including a laparoscope and cardiac ultrasound equipment;
- on Z. Brusiło’s initiative, the “Flower-filled Balconies” competition was launched in 1995. It is now held in an expanded format under the name “Bolesławiec in Flowers” and is organised jointly with the City Hall;
- in 1995, TMB became the patron of an initiative by its member Adam Kowalski to erect the Borderland Residents Monument on the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Bolesławiec of the first transport from the Eastern Borderlands, from Drohobych;
- it became the patron of the 1996 unveiling of a plaque commemorating the 50th anniversary of the return to their homeland of re-emigrants from Yugoslavia, placed on the Borderland Residents Monument;
- as part of regional education, competitions entitled “My Little Homeland” were organised in schools in the city and region; during the fifth edition, a publication containing the winners’ works in the categories of poetry, short stories and interviews was issued.
For his social activities, Z. Brusiło received numerous distinctions from various institutions, including the commemorative medal “For Merits to DTSK” (1996, 2003), the Medal of the Commission of National Education (2002), the “Meritorious for Polish Culture” badge (2010), and the Gold Honorary Badge “Meritorious for the Lower Silesian Voivodeship” (2015).
Wanda Draj
She was born on 10 February 1949 in Lwówek Śląski. She completed secondary school in her hometown. After graduating, she continued her education in Wrocław at the State Medical School, studying as a hygiene instructors’ medical student. In 1969, she began working at the State Sanitary Inspectorate in Bolesławiec as a hygiene instructor in the School Hygiene, Community Hygiene, and Nutrition and Food departments. In the 1970s, she participated in efforts to improve hygiene in towns and villages, aimed at raising hygiene standards and improving sanitary conditions.
She also worked to improve the sanitary and technical conditions of facilities, maintain sanitary and hygienic conditions in food production and storage, and ensure proper sanitary and hygienic standards in service establishments.
In the 1980s, after the reactivation of the “Solidarity” trade union, while working at the District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, she served as deputy chair for two years and then as chair of NSZZ “Solidarity” for the next 12 years. During that time, she distributed the underground press and leaflets and actively supported the activities and protests of striking workers, not only in Silesia but also in Pomerania.
In 2004, already retired, she reactivated the NSZZ “Solidarity” Pensioners’ and Retirees’ Circle in Bolesławiec, within which she organised trips for trade union members and their families, among other activities. In 2010, she joined the board of the Local Organisation of NSZZ “Solidarity” in Bolesławiec County, where she continues to serve as treasurer and secretary. At the same time, she runs the Office of the Local Branch of the Jelenia Góra Region of NSZZ “Solidarity”. She serves as liaison between the Company Organisations of NSZZ “Solidarity” in the Bolesławiec Land and the Regional Board.
For many years, she actively helped prepare historical meetings between 1980s “Solidarity” activists and students from across the region. She supported various projects concerning the history and present-day activities of “Solidarity” with her knowledge and advice, including the organisation of numerous exhibitions and the preparation of publications. She actively participated in many trade union actions, including in Wrocław, Warsaw and Jelenia Góra. Sensitive, helpful, honest and trusted, she has been and remains involved in helping many people with employment-related matters. She participated in the IDE Social Foundation’s “Legal Aid for Pensioners and Retirees” project, working as a volunteer with a lawyer. She organises New Year meetings for union members and their families, “Solidarity” supporters, and city and county authorities. She is a member of the Honorary Colour Guard of the “Solidarity Bolesławiec” banner. Since 2018, she has been the Bolesławiec Land Delegate to the General Delegates’ Assemblies of the Jelenia Góra Region of NSZZ “Solidarity” in Jelenia Góra. In 2020, she was part of the initiative group for the construction of the “SOLIDARITY” Monument in Bolesławiec.
Helena Strzelczak-Kunicka
She represents the French Polonia community that came to Bolesławiec after the Second World War. She has lived in Bolesławiec for 72 years. She holds master’s degrees in economics and pedagogy. She graduated from the Oskar Lange Academy of Economics in Wrocław, the Pedagogical College in Jelenia Góra, and the Postgraduate Studies for Teachers at the University of Wrocław’s Faculty of Philology, Institute of Library and Information Science. In 2001, she obtained the title of certified teacher.
While working at the Electronic Schools Complex in Bolesławiec, she promoted and preserved the memory of local veterans of the Polish Underground State, as documented in the local press and television. As a committed educator, she organised many reading events at which she introduced young people to Bolesławiec’s historical and cultural heritage, systematically cooperating with local cultural institutions in this area.
Since the 1960s, H. Strzelczak-Kunicka has been involved in social and cultural activities for the benefit of the city and its residents on many levels. She initiated efforts to commemorate the first Polish post-war teachers and organisers of education in Bolesławiec. She served as a member of the Committee for Commemorating the First Polish Post-War Teachers, established by the mayor.
In 2021, a plaque commemorating the first Polish post-war teachers of Bolesławiec was ceremonially unveiled at the town hall. H. Strzelczak-Kunicka also helped prepare an information plaque about the locations of the teachers’ graves and worked to commemorate one of them in particular — Stefania Tajcher. She successfully petitioned to halt the process of removing her grave and for the city to take over care of the burial site. She also petitioned for S. Tajcher to be commemorated by naming one of the city streets after her.
She cooperates with and actively supports local cultural institutions in preserving the memory of Lower Silesia’s post-war history. She is particularly involved in commemorating settlers who came to the Bolesławiec Land after the Second World War, especially the group of re-emigrants from France.
She conceived and co-initiated the installation on the Settlers Monument of a plaque commemorating the arrival of this group of settlers between 1945 and 1955. As co-organiser of the plaque-unveiling ceremony, she invited the Francophone Choir from Szczawno-Zdrój, the “Jutrzenka” Song and Dance Ensemble, and the choir from the State Music School in Bolesławiec, and she herself actively took part in the performance. The concert, entitled “Multiculturalism in Europe, Multiculturalism in Bolesławiec”, was held at the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre. On H. Strzelczak-Kunicka’s initiative, the idea of Bolesławiec Land Settlers’ Day was created to integrate settler groups; it was celebrated as part of City Days. The idea won the approval of the Bolesławiec Senior Citizens’ Council, and Settlers’ Day was added to the programme of subsequent City Days celebrations.
H. Strzelczak-Kunicka has been particularly active in integrating the community of French re-emigrants in Bolesławiec. She initiated, organised and participated in numerous activities. She was one of the protagonists of the film “Lower Silesia… Polish Re-emigrants from France”, recorded by the Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław as part of the project “Lower Silesia. Its People, Customs, Way of Life and Songs”. In the film, she told the story of her family. In cooperation with the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, she organised a screening of the film “Lower Silesia… Polish Re-emigrants from France”. Her biography was included in the collective publication about re-emigrants from France, “Everything Was Different Here: Memories of Bolesławiec Re-emigrants from France”, published in 2015 under the editorship of Kamilla Dudek by the Bolesławiec museum as part of the “Save from Oblivion” series.
H. Strzelczak-Kunicka also built a network of contacts that made the publication possible. She actively participated in archival work on the photographic documentation for the publication. She also promoted the history of Bolesławiec’s re-emigrants from France in sociological research conducted by Dr Jacek Kubera of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
She joined the nationwide “My Memento” project run by the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, where she shared her story and provided sources commemorating other Bolesławiec re-emigrants from France. The project resulted in her participation in an exhibition organised by the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
As an “expert – witness to history”, she took part in the “Gateway to Regional History” project initiated and run by Grażyna Wężyk and Sebastian Zielonka at the Public Library in Kruszyn. During a meeting on 19 December 2017, she told young people about the fate of re-emigrants from France who came to Bolesławiec and the surrounding area after the Second World War. She introduced participants to French culture and explained how the “French people of Bolesławiec” helped shape the cultural identity of post-war Bolesławiec and its surroundings. During an Easter meeting at the Municipal Cultural and Sports Centre in Kruszyn, she introduced listeners to French Easter customs. She repeatedly made photographs and exhibits concerning the French Polonia community available for initiatives by municipal cultural institutions. Some of the materials were used in publications and exhibitions organised by the Museum of Ceramics, BOK-MCC and the Bolesławiec County Office.
She was also the initiator and participant in a performance by the “Jutrzenka” Song and Dance Ensemble at the Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław accompanying a ceremonial screening of a commemorative film about re-emigrants from Bosnia.
H. Strzelczak-Kunicka is also active on behalf of the local senior community. She undertook decisive cultural and trade union activities for senior teachers. At the turn of 2001 and 2002, she conceived, initiated and founded Bolesławiec’s first Retired Teachers’ Club, operating at the Bolesławiec branch of ZNP. She also became its first president. In 2005, on the 100th anniversary of ZNP’s activities, she received a letter of thanks from the Lower Silesian District Board of ZNP in Wrocław for this work. She continues to participate actively in the club’s life. The Bolesławiec Social Association Teachers’ Club “Carpe Diem” recommended her to the fourth-term Bolesławiec Senior Citizens’ Council under the Mayor of Bolesławiec. She was appointed to the council on 3 March 2020 and serves as its chair.
She promoted the folklore of the Bolesławiec Land during numerous performances with the “Jutrzenka” Song and Dance Ensemble, including at the South Slavic Culture Festivals, Bukovina Meetings, Balkan Culture Festivals, the Balkan Fest, the Bolesławiec Ceramic Festival, municipal harvest festivals, the Bread Mystery, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, Szpikolada, and, outside Bolesławiec, at many festivals in Lower Silesian towns and municipalities, subsequent editions of the International Folklore Festival “Bukovina Meetings” in Jastrowie, and as part of Poroniańskie Summer. She performed with the ensemble in Piła, Lubań Śląski and Dzierżoniów, as well as abroad in Ukraine, Hungary and Romania.
Together with a delegation of the “Jutrzenka” Song and Dance Ensemble, she represented Bolesławiec Municipality during the ceremony consecrating Bolesławiec’s Millennium Cross on 12 September 2003. She published articles in “Municipal News” and the Information Bulletin of Bolesławiec Municipality about the “Jutrzenka” Song and Dance Ensemble’s concerts in Poland and abroad. For several decades, she has been an active member of amateur parish choirs and performs in concerts organised by parishes to enhance many religious events.
As a resident of Bolesławiec, she willingly contributes to fundraising supporting city initiatives commemorating the history of the city and Poland, such as the Plaque Commemorating the Smolensk Air Disaster from 2010 on Kubika Street and the Monument to the Centenary of Regaining Independence from 2018 on Bankowa Street.
For her professional work and social and cultural activities, she received numerous distinctions, including the honorary “Meritorious for Polish Culture” badge awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (2017), a special award from the Superintendent of Education in recognition of her contribution to education for outstanding results in teaching and educational work (1996), and the Bronze Cross of Merit. She was also recognised locally, receiving certificates of appreciation, letters of congratulations and letters of thanks, including from the mayor of Bolesławiec Municipality; the director of the Municipal Cultural and Sports Centre in Bolesławiec, based in Kruszyn; the director of the Stanisław Wyspiański Youth Cultural Centre, for participating in nationwide campaigns promoting the reading of Polish literature; the board of the Society of Lviv and South-Eastern Borderlands Enthusiasts in Bolesławiec, for her great commitment to helping Polish children in Ukraine; and the director of the District Centre for Education and Staff Training in Bolesławiec, for cooperation in organising the sixth edition of the District Literary Competition “Capture in Time”.
Halina Waniak
Since 25 April 2013, she has served as president of the Association of Re-emigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends in Bolesławiec, established in 2011 and based at the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre in Bolesławiec. Under her leadership, the association has carried out many projects, including ones with external funding, and has held numerous meetings, exhibitions, promotional events, concerts and festivals. It has also carried out extremely important work related to restoring and organising Polish cemeteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The association’s most important statutory activity is caring for the burial sites of Poles and preserving the memory of the past through cultural, tourist, economic and sporting contacts with Poles who remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly in Banja Luka Region and Prnjavor Municipality, in the Srbac area.
After H. Waniak assumed the duties of president, she intensified these activities. At her initiative, association members successively visited and cleaned further Polish cemeteries, marking memorial sites with crosses and plaques. In 2014, after consultations with the authorities of Prnjavor and Srbac, association members erected a cross, a commemorative plaque and bilingual information boards in Rakovec. In 2015, a cross was erected at the cemetery in Kunova at the initiative of village head Józef Potyszka. In the same year, at the request of the residents of Gościszów, a cross was erected at the cemetery in Nowy Martyniec, and Halina Waniak organised both ceremonies connected with these events.
Halina Waniak helped the residents of Wykroty organise a trip to Stara Dubrava to erect a commemorative plaque and a cross funded by the residents of Wykroty village. In 2017, association members helped determine the locations of cemeteries in Stara Dubrava and attended the unveiling of a plaque funded by the “Integration and Future” Association of the Wykroty and Zagajnik Village Districts at the cemetery in Stara Dubrava.
In 2018, as part of the project “Save from Oblivion… Polish Cemeteries of Derventa and Gradiška in Bosnia”, co-financed within the framework of the Senate of the Republic of Poland’s care for the Polish community abroad and Poles abroad, association members visited cemeteries in the municipalities of Derventa and Gradiška. After photographic documentation was prepared, cleaning work was carried out and burial sites were marked with crosses and information plaques. Local residents and the Polish community organised in the “Bolesławiec” Association of Poles from Prnjavor took part in the work. In the same year, at the initiative of Halina Waniak and the village head of Czerna, a Polish cemetery in Gornji Bakinci was found and cleaned, and a symbolic cross with a commemorative plaque was erected.
Association activists, together with Halina Waniak, travelled to Prnjavor at the invitation of the Polish Embassy in Sarajevo. In November 2014, a ceremony was held there unveiling a commemorative plaque dedicated to Poles who lived from 1894 to 1946 in villages belonging to the Prnjavor parish; the plaque was set into the vestibule of the local Catholic church. In 2017, the President, together with association members, attended a ceremony unveiling a commemorative plaque at the cemetery in Devetina, commemorating all Poles who had lived in northern Bosnia in the past. The necropolis is cared for by the Embassy of Poland in Sarajevo and the “Bolesławiec” Association from Prnjavor.
Thanks to Halina Waniak’s involvement, association members maintain contact with the broadly understood culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina — folk art, songs and dances, and culinary traditions — cooperating in this area with the local Polish community.
The first trip took place in August 2013. It was organised jointly with the “Green Hills” Association from Osła. A group of 120 people travelled to Srbac and Prnjavor, where they held a series of meetings with local authorities. On the way back, association members met with the Polish community and Poles associated with the “MAK” Association of Poles and Friends of Gradiška in Celinovac.
Halina Waniak, together with many members of the Association of Re-emigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends, repeatedly organised and personally participated in anniversary celebrations connected with settlement in Bolesławiec and in the places from which the first settlers came. At the invitation of and in cooperation with the Polish Embassy in Zagreb and the “Vistula” Association in Osijek, celebrations of the 125th anniversary of Polish settlement from Galicia in Slavonia and Baranja were organised in 2015 in Valpovo, Croatia. A photographic exhibition about Polish settlers from Galicia to Bosnia and present-day Croatia, a film about Bolesławiec, and a presentation of two volumes of Jan Bujak’s publication “Galicians and Serbs” were prepared as part of the event. A plaque commemorating the anniversary remains a lasting memorial. The Bolesławiec Brass Band and the “Mały Bolesławiec” folk ensemble performed during the ceremony.
In 2016, celebrations were held to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Poles from Bosnia in Bolesławiec County. The ceremonies took place in Bolesławiec and its partner city, Prnjavor. The publication “From Bosnia to Poland” by Dr Jacek Tomasz Lis, containing source documents concerning the post-war re-emigration of Poles, was issued. In 2016, on the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic parish in Prnjavor, association members presented the parish with an image of Our Lady of Częstochowa. In 2015, association members, led by President Halina Waniak, also took part in celebrations of the Orthodox festival Vielka Slava. One day was dedicated to Poles and Polish culture. Polish music was particularly promoted that day, along with the city of Bolesławiec and Bolesławiec County. On that occasion, President Halina Waniak received thanks and a distinction for fruitful cooperation from the head of Srbac.
The association also actively participated in the “Little Europe” Festival in 2017. Another trip connected with the Polish Community Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina, combined with the “Little Europe” Festival, took place in 2019. The association’s activities, coordinated by Halina Waniak, also focus on documenting its work. Several documentaries were made: “A Polish Saga in Bosnia”, filmed during the ceremony of erecting a cross at the cemetery in Rakovec, premiered in 2014. The years 2017–2018 brought two more films made in Bosnia: “Our Bosnia” and “A Forest Will Remain After Us”, which was presented, among other places, during the National Minorities Days celebrations in Sarajevo and at the “Little Europe” Festival in Prnjavor.
Together with President Halina Waniak, the association actively participates in preparing and promoting publications about settlers. In 2017, two publications devoted to the post-war history of the city and its residents, issued by the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, were presented: “Bolesławiec Residents – They Did Not Come from Nowhere. On the Settlement Landscape of Lower Silesia” and “Tearing Land from the Primeval Forest… Memories of Bolesławiec Re-emigrants from Yugoslavia”. Their preparation involved students interviewing association members, who actively and willingly participated in the project.
The association’s active work contributed to the publication of many books. In 2019, “The Settlement of Poles from Yugoslavia in the Lands of Bolesławiec County in 1946–1947”, “Detlak – Kalendrovce Miljevac, a Settlement of Polish Emigration in Bosnia” by Franciszek Kwaśniak, and “Polish Parishes in Bosnia in 1891–1946” by Jan Bujak were published. In 2020, Jan Bujak’s book “Polish Settlements in the Bosanska Gradiška and Derventa Region, 1892–1946” was issued, and in 2021 the publication “The Association of Re-emigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends in 2010–2021”, edited by H. Waniak, was published as a record of the association’s decade of activity.
Halina Waniak and association members also actively helped organise exhibitions devoted to settlers by lending exhibits and providing substantive contributions: “Where Did We Come From? Bolesławiec Settlers in the 1940s and 1950s” (2016, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec) and “Selected Places. The Settlement of Poles from Yugoslavia in Bolesławiec County in 1946–1947 in Archival Materials” (2021, State Archives in Wrocław – Bolesławiec Branch).
In addition to popular-science activities, Halina Waniak and the association she leads participate in organising and taking part in various events. The South Slavic Culture Festival holds a special place. Initially, the association provided substantive support to the organisers; since 2014, it has been a co-organiser. As part of the festival, an exhibition of documents and photographs entitled “From Bosnia to Bolesławiec” was organised in 2014, followed in 2015 by the outdoor exhibition “Poles on Bosnian Soil”.
Halina Waniak also initiated the fifth anniversary of the Bolesławiec association in 2016 and its tenth anniversary in 2021. Every year, association members, together with President Halina Waniak, take part in the “Goodwill Christmas” and the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, becoming involved in the social life of Bolesławiec.
In solidarity with the residents of the city and county during the COVID-19 pandemic, the association’s board donated funds to purchase personal protective equipment for medical staff at the Healthcare Complex in Bolesławiec. Throughout its years of activity, the association supported the Polish community living in Bosnia and Herzegovina during difficult times, organising, together with Bolesławiec Municipal Municipality, donations and financial aid for flood victims and packages of school supplies for children.
In recognition of her many years of work for the local community, Halina Waniak received the Silver Honorary Badge – Meritorious for the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, awarded by the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Assembly, and in 2018 the title “Honorary Citizen of Prnjavor Municipality”, awarded by the Municipal Council in Prnjavor. Halina Waniak was also honoured in 2015 and 2018 by the Mayor of Bolesławiec for promoting the city. The Association of Re-emigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends, coordinated by Halina Waniak, received the same distinction in 2014 and 2017. In 2016, it was also recognised in the sixth edition of the “zDolne NGO” competition for the best Lower Silesian non-governmental organisation promoting the ideals of Lower Silesian regionalism.