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XVII International Flamenco Festival in Krzyżowa, 17-27.07.2022

The International Flamenco Festival has been taking place in Krzyżowa regularly since 2007 and is organised by Agata Teodorczyk. Every year, maestros from Spain - leading Flamenco artists such as Concha Jareno or La Choni - are invited to workshops and performances. 

This year, the workshop will begin on 17 July.

And this is how the workshops of one of the groups looked like during the previous editions of the festival:

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Half-schools "Creative week in Krzyzowa"

Half-schools have started!
Already on 27.06.2022 the activities of the semi-colonies under the title "Creative week in Krzyzowa" began! Nearly 30 children.
In the program:

•  integration activities and developing teamwork skills,
• field games and outdoor education,
• creative, photographic, ecological and culinary workshops,
• art and sports activities,
• hiking in the area and observation of natural phenomena,
• tending a permaculture garden,
• lots of outdoor exercise.
  
  
  

  

  

  

  
  
  
  

||MEDIA|| About the project "Uprooted - Stolen/ uprooted(...)" in the Wałbrzych edition of the wyborcza.pl newspaper

We would like to recommend to you an article by Agnieszka Dobkiewicz, which appeared on 5 July 2022 in the online edition of the newspaper https://walbrzych.wyborcza.pl/, devoted to the fate of children taken from their families by the German occupation authorities during World War II.  

Excerpt from the text:

(...) Henrich Himmler, a very important person in the apparatus of the Third Reich, was a man completely obsessed with the purity of the race, with a certain Germanic individual who would embody all that was best in himself," says journalist Anna Malinowska in a programme on this criminal activity prepared by the Krzyzowa Foundation. - This was the main driving force behind the abduction of children from other countries and their subsequent Germanisation within the Third Reich. Even among members of the Slavic peoples, even among the Poles, he saw opportunities for the recovery of so-called good blood.

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First joint annual report of the organizations connected to Krzyżowa

The Krzyżowa Foundation, together with its partner organizations - the Kreisau Initiative e. V. as well as the Freya von Moltke Foundation, has for the first time prepared a joint annual report for the year 2021. As a pilot project, the publication will be released only in German this year; and both Polish and German versions are planned from 2022. 

Designed as a reading booklet, you will find not only reports on past projects, but also interviews and articles on current topics and also a preview of important events in 2022.

We hope you enjoy reading!

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