We encourage you to listen to the podcast from the programme "Weekend morning - Maciej Zakrocki" on Radio TOK FM.
On November 9th, the guest of Maciej Zakrocki was Maryna Czaplińska - a member of the Council of the Krzyżowa Foundation, participant of the Reconciliation Mass in 1989. The discussion focused on historical issues, but the listeners could also learn what the Krzyżowa Foundation, which has been operating for 30 years, does today.
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The publication is an attempt to reflect on the historical experience of Polish-German rapprochement and the science that flows from it for us, our contemporaries. It was created within the framework of the project "Heritage of Polish-German reconciliation and building a Europe of values", which the "Krzyżowa" Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe implemented in cooperation with and thanks to the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland and the "Memory and Future" Center. Several experts from Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and France were invited to participate in the project, representing various scientific disciplines, experiences and philosophical options, who for years have not only been professionally involved in the issue of reconciliation in international relations, but have also been actively involved in Polish-German dialogue.
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Prof. Waldemar Czachur and Dr. Gregor Feindt are the authors of a new Polish-German publication about Krzyżowa, which has just been published by the publishing Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb).
The village of Krzyżowa in Lower Silesia has German history, Polish present, and European horizon. With the move of the border after the end of World War II, the German village Kreisau became the Polish one. Later the place was rediscovered as a place of German resistance to National Socialism. Germans and Poles have together started the research on the ideas of the Kreisau Circle. Therefore Krzyżowa was the right place to organize the Reconciliation Mass in 1989. Waldemar Czachur and Gregor Feindt follow the growing importance of Krzyżowa for Polish-German relations and show the history of the establishment of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe.
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"Let us pray for the Polish nation and the German nation: Give us, Lord, the strength to come out of the shadow of the past and let us find mutual understanding. Let new horizons of hope emerge through the Polish-German youth exchange". Those are one of many important words spoken on 12th of November 1989 in the courtyard of the former estate of the von Moltke family in Krzyżowa. During the service, one of the items on the agenda of the visit of the German head of government in Poland, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Helmut Kohl, conveying the sign of peace, embraced each other as a sign of reconciliation. This gesture, made in exceptional circumstances, took on a very clear meaning and was remembered as a milestone in building friendly relations between once divided countries.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Reconciliation Mass, Dr. Agnieszka Łada recalls the history of Krzyżowa in the programme "Germany in close-up/ Polen verstehen", but also shows Krzyżowa now - a vital place where respect, dialogue and understanding take place.
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