Herbert Hoover, Ignacy Paderewski and Helena Paderewska in her Polish White Cross uniform, Warsaw, August 13, 1919 (Hoover Institution Archives)
On the afternoon of August 14, 1919, Herbert Hoover and his party were taken to the Warsaw Horse Racing Track at the Mokotów Field. As many as fifty-thousand children gathered from all over Poland in a grand parade of gratitude, lasting from the early afternoon into the evening. The scene unfolded before Hugh Gibson’s eyes…
Read the entire story of Hoover’s historic visit to Poland in 1919 in “Miracle Man on the Vistula” on the Freedom Institute website.
