Alex Storozynski

Alex Storozynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, award-winning author, filmmaker, songwriter, and President Emeritus & Chairman of the Board of The Kosciuszko Foundation. His book, Spies In My Blood: Secrets of a Polish Family's Fight Against Nazis & Communists is a compelling true story. It narrates the journey of two brothers, raised in New York by WWII exiles, who ventured to Poland. Each took a different path to infiltrate the Communist secret police on a mission to uncover the truth about their family of soldiers, spies and assasins. Storozynski's book, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, won the Fraunces Tavern Book Award, The Templar Military History Award - "Military Order of Saint Louis" and other awards. He wrote and directed a documentary film based on the book called Kosciuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time, which was broadcast on PBS in the United States and TVP in Poland. As a member of the New York Daily News editorial board, he wrote editorials and op-ed columns on complex public policy issues. He was part of the writing team that won the Pulitzer Prize, Polk Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award, Deadline Club Award, Associated Press, and Silurian Awards. He was the founding editor of amNewYork and former city editor of the New York Sun. His work has appeared in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, Newsday, Reuters, Forbes, and elsewhere. His essay "From Serfdom to Freedom: Polish Catholics Find A Refuge" was included in the book Catholics in New York, Society Culture, and Politics, 1808-1946, to coincide with the exhibit on Catholics at the Museum of the History of New York. As President of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Storozynski authored a petition, signed by 300,000 people, that persuaded The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, and other media to change their style books to ban the use of the erroneous phrase "Polish Concentration Camps" when referring to Auschwitz or other camps built by the Nazis in German-occupied Poland. Storozynski has also served as chairman and vice-chairman of the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, which has more than 2 billion in assets and 108,000 members, making it the largest ethnic credit union in the United States. In 2004, the Polish magazine Przeglad called Storozynski "a new type of leader in the Polish community," even though he was born in Brooklyn, they named him one of the "100 most influential Poles living abroad." Storozynski is a recipient of the Lech Wales Media Award and was decorated with Poland's "Gold Cross of Merit" by former President Lech Kaczynski and the "Officer's Cross of Merit" of the Republic of Poland by President Bronislaw Komorowski.