About Us Mission & History Who was Kosciuszko? Kosciuszko Foundation House Art Gallery Virtual Tour Board of Trustees KF Staff National Advisory Council The Pro Arte League Annual Reports & Newsletters KF Partners Our Credit Union: The Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union SPACE RENTAL Privacy Policy Volunteers Contact Us Art Gallery Virtual Tour Connect With US

Kosciuszko Foundation in Washington DC Chicago New England Ohio Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rocky Mountain Texas Western New York Kosciuszko Foundation Poland

News & Events

Assemblyman Ramos Visits Kosciuszko Foundation/Folkowisko Operation on Ukrainian Border Help Ukraine Now KF Online Programs Upcoming Events - Live at the KF NY KF NEWS Kosciuszko TV Past events Photo Gallery book Happy Birthday to the founding father of the Kosciuszko Foundation KOSCIUSZKO JAZZ: The KF x Blues Alley Jazz Club Project Scholarships End of Year Report

Programs

Competitions Scholarships Summer Study Abroad Teaching English in Poland Polish Studies at Hunter College Grant Program For Academics From Ukraine KF Collegium of Eminent Scientists Konkurs Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej na najlepszą publikację akademicką z zakresu problematyki amerykanistycznej wydaną w 2019 roku (in Polish) Lecturers of Polish as a Foreign Language (NAWA) Polish Studies in the USA

Scholarships

About Scholarships Eligibility Tuition Scholarships Exchange Programs to Poland Exchange Program to the United States Summer Study Abroad

Our Impact

Sign the Declaration Petition on Kosciuszko House The KF Economic Conference Petition on German Concentration Camps Interviews of Polish Victims of Nazi Persecutions Poland, Visas & What You Can Do The 70th Anniversary Observance of The Katyn Massacre Books by KF Scholars & Honorees Scholars of the KF The KF Visitors MEET OUR SCHOLARS

Donate

Donation Form Membership Why YOU should join the KF Ways To Give KF Building and Art Restoration Fund IRA Contributions Contact

Past events

Kosciuszko: A Man Before His Time by Alex Storozynski - Movie Screening

Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 7:00pm

View Event Photos

Kosciuszko: A Man Before His Time

Written & Directed By Alex Storozynski

Produced by Eve Krzyzanowski

Narrated By Blair Underwood

Tickets: $0 for KF members, $5 for non-members

Seating is limited, first come, first served.

A discussion with the director Alex Storozynski will follow.

Where: The Kosciuszko Foundation NY

15 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065

With a moving narration by film, television and stage actor, Blair Underwood and reenactments filmed at West Point, Saratoga, Philadelphia and Poland, the documentary tells the story of Kosciuszko's fight for liberty for all. Hollywood actor Olek Krupa brings the Polish revolutionary to life with dramatic performance, along with interviews of former U.S. National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Storozynski, Prof. Gary Nash, and Prof. James Pula.

Kościuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time

There are more statutes of Kosciuszko in America than any historical figure except for George Washington and millions of New York TV and radio listeners daily hear of traffic jams on the Kosciuszko Bridge. Yet few know the real story of this Revolutionary War hero and champion of human rights.

Kosciuszko gave his salary from the American Revolution to Thomas Jefferson with instructions to buy slaves – and free them. Jefferson called, Kosciuszko "as pure a son of liberty, as I have ever known". This Polish hero fought for the rights of serfs, slaves, Jews, Native-Americans, and women.

A military strategist, Kosciuszko's plan won the Battle of Saratoga – the turning point of the war. He also built Fortress West Point, which Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British in the most infamous act of treason in American history.

Kościuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time

In 1791, when Poland passed the first democratic Constitution in Europe, Russia, Austria, and Prussia sent armies to crush this democracy. Kosciuszko led an army against the invaders to fight for rights for peasants, burghers, and Jews. His ally Berek Joselewicz formed the first wholly Jewish military unit since biblical times and called Kosciuszko "a messenger from God."

Based on the book, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, the film portrays Kosciuszko's quest for liberty with his allies George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolutionaries against the tyranny of Britain's King George, Russia's Catherine the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.