EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CENTRE MEDAL OF GRATITUDE

Written By Johanna Goldfeld

Congratulations to Board Member Shana Penn and Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies, on receiving the European Solidarity Centre Medal of Gratitude. This award recognizes her outstanding work on the role of women in leading the Solidarity movement, which brought about a peaceful revolution, the fall of Communism in Poland.

Her landmark book Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland, won the 2005 Heldt Book Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies given by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Award.

About the book: Solidarity's Secret

Johanna Goldfeld
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