“We are with you, heart and soul.” – “My z Wami sercem i duszą”

This was the declaration made by the delegates of the X PAC General Assembly in 1941 to the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; they sent a letter and 50 pounds to the Polish soldiers in England for Christmas and informed them that Alliance branches would continue Red Cross fundraising to help the Polish nation.

In May 1939, PAC Branch 13 in Sudbury was the first among Polish organizations to donate $157.00 to the National Defense Fund in Warsaw; a month later, the PAC Head Executive Board sent $507.03 (approximately $10,000 today). In 1940, the Alliance decided to purchase an ambulance for the Polish Army in France. It was sent to England in 1941. The Alliance’s members considerably helped the recruitment office in Windsor and the training camp in Owen Sound, which prepared volunteers for the Polish Army.

Packages for Polish prisoners in Russia and in Germany, packages for Polish soldiers at all war fronts, a truck, and donations for soldiers’ hospitals and cantinas were regularly sent during the entire period of war conflagration.

In 1944, the United Polish Relief Fund was created and organized an enormous fundraising campaign for Mobile Hospitals in Poland. Almost $152,000 (approximately $2.7million today) were raised.

During World War II, cooperation between the Polish Army and the Alliance was very good. PAC delegates often visited army camps, while the army was interested by organizational life. In Canada, the Alliance hosted many guests, including Polish People’s Party President and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in London S. Mikolajczyk, General Władyslaw Sikorski, General J. Haller, Colonel F.A. Arciszewski, and General K. Sosnkowski.

When wartime work ended, PAC members quickly offered help to invalids and soldiers who settled in Canada. The Alliancer provided its columns to the exiled soldiers.  “Combatants’ Corners,” (Kąciki Kombatanckie) which appeared in almost all issues, significantly helped ex-soldiers to adapt to life in the new and unknown country.