The Lower Silesian Teacher Training Center in Wrocław is organizing an online seminar "Regional education (not) present in Lower Silesian schools". It is a meeting in the series "Thursdays in DODN – Dyskusyjny Klub Belfra". The organizers invite you to join the meeting on 5 November from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. We also recommend you this event because one of the speakers will be Dr. Tomasz Skonieczny - deputy head of the European Academy of the Krzyżowa Foundation, who will present the educational projects of our foundation.
Participation in the seminar is free, however, prior registration is required. Details are available on the organizer's website
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„A united Europe was not achieved and we had war"
Episode 4: Overcoming Nationalism (European Plans of the Kreisau Circle)
(...) We are in Krzyżowa, in front of the House on the Hill. During World War II “Kreisau Circle” met here. It was a very original and mature secret anti-Nazi organization in the Third Reich. They were connected by the belief that one cannot be indifferent towards evil, that it should be fought, even if the highest price has to be paid for that. And many of them have actually paid the highest price. When the Gestapo discovered the Kreisau Circle, many of them were condemned to death. One of them was Helmuth James von Moltke, a co-founder of the Circle and the owner of the Krzyżowa estate. (...)
Read more: „A united Europe was not achieved and we had war". Episode 4: Overcoming Nationalism
For several days, a wave of protests has been sweeping through Poland over the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal on the incompatibility of the current provisions on abortion with the Constitution. The scale and nature of these protests, as well as the reactions of people and circles reluctant to them, indicate that we are dealing with a continuation and escalation of the process of polarization of our society, which has been going on for many years and which is increasingly threatening the good future of all of us. The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, working for the peaceful coexistence of nations, social groups and individuals, observes this process with growing pain and anxiety.
Abortion is a very controversial topic that evokes extremely strong emotions. Modern democracies have not yet found model solutions that would satisfactorily protect both life from conception and women's right to subjectivity and self-determination. It is precisely due to the conflicting, polarizing potential of disputes over abortion, as well as the fundamental difficulty in developing appropriate legal solutions, that this topic should be approached with great responsibility.
Read more: Statement of the Management Board of the Krzyżowa Foundation in connection with the wave of...
94 years ago, on 20 October 1926, in the Królewska Huta (since 1934 Chorzów), Ewa Elżbieta Unger was born - long-time president of the Wrocław Club of Catholic Intelligentsia, co-founder of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and long-time president of the Foundation's Board.
Dr Ewa Unger died a few months ago, on 15 March 2020. Due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic at that time, the funeral ceremonies were very intimate and not everyone who wanted to farewell to Ewa Unger could do so. That is why we are already announcing a ceremony which will allow us to commemorate Dr Ewa Unger - a person so important for the Krzyżowa Foundation and for everyone involved in Polish-German reconciliation - in a larger group.
Read more: ||SAVE THE DATE|| Ceremonies commemorating Dr Ewa Unger - Wrocław, Krzyżowa, 13 March 2021
