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Representatives of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe with a visit to Krzyżowa - 11.05.2022

On Wednesday, 11 May, representatives of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe visited Krzyżowa as part of their tour of Lower Silesia.

Our guests visited the Foundation centre and during the guided tour they got to know the history of Krzyżowa - a place of dialogue, understanding and reconciliation. The meeting was an opportunity to present current activities of the Foundation, which according to its heritage carries out a mission of building bridges in Europe. Dr. Robert Żurek, Managing Director of the Foundation, talked more about the values of Krzyżowa during his lecture 'Democracy in Krzyżowa'.

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Anke Meyer and Mr Jana Orlowski from the German Foreign Ministry visiting Krzyżowa - 10.05.2022

On 10 May, we hosted Ms Anke Meyer, Chairperson of the Polish-German Intergovernmental Commission for Regional and Cross-border Cooperation from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ms Jana Orlowski, Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wrocław.

Both ladies, accompanied by the managing director of the Foundation - Dr. Robert Żurek, as well as Dr. Anna Poznańska - director for communication and international cooperation and Dominik Kretschmann - manager of the Memorial Site, visited the Foundation complex.

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UPROOTED. PODCAST ||"Lebensborn and the post-war fate of children stolen by the Nazis"

We invite you to listen to a conversation with Anna Malinowska, journalist and author of the book "Brown Lullaby. Stories of kidnapped children", about the Nazi search for "good blood", the post-war fate of robbed children who were deprived of their identity and family, and the demanding work of a reporter who collects the testimonies of the victims.

The conversation, prepared as a podcast, is part of the educational project “Uprooted – (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II”.

We would like to remind you that podcasts of the Krzyżowa Foundation can also be listened to on the most popular podcasting platforms: anchor.fm, Spotify, as well as on: Google Podcast and Breaker.

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"Dialogue and reconciliation laboratory | | Third edition of the project launched

We are pleased to announce that the first meeting of the third edition of the project "Laboratory of dialogue and reconciliation" has just taken place. A project that the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe is implementing in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland from 2019.

"Since the first edition of the project, our focus has been to create a space for the presentation and exchange of experiences and ideas among people actively working to promote constructive dialogue based on mutual respect," says Dr Tomasz Skonieczny, project coordinator. "Today, in light of Russia's unprecedented aggression against Ukraine, the crimes committed by Russian soldiers against the civilian population, in view of the devastating changes that two years of pandemonium have caused in our social and economic life, issues such as dialogue and reconciliation must be looked at anew, from a completely different perspective. There is no doubt, however, that dialogue is what we invariably need. Even in the face of legitimate questions about its limits'.

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