Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe was among the winners of the GlobART competition organized by ProgettoMondo Mlal Onlus from Verona. The Italian organization realized the contest within the framework of regranting for global education activities financed by the European Commission ("Start the Change!" project).
The winning project of the Foundation includes 11 exchanges for young people and students aged 14-18 and 18-25, which will take place between October 2019 and 15 May 2020. The target group (300 people) are young people of different nationalities (from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Romania) who will participate in youth exchanges at the Krzyżowa Foundation. One of the main topics of these meetings will be global education. The youth will work on one of the selected topics:
Read more: Krzyżowa Foundation awarded in the GlobART competition
On 30 September in Bratislava took place meeting of partners of the project ‘30 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain’, coordinated by the Slovak organization Post Bellum SK.
The Krzyżowa Foundation was represented by Dr. Tomasz Skonieczny and Dominik Całka, from the European Academy.
The aim of the project is to look at the experience of 1989, the year in which the Iron Curtain collapsed, in selected countries of Central Europe.
Within the framework of the project, the Krzyżowa Foundation cooperates with Post Bellum SK (Slovakia) and Post Bellum CZ (Czech Republic).
Read more: ‘30 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain’. Meeting of the project partners - Bratislava,...
On 26th September in Krzyżowa took place VI Intergenerational Cross-Country Reconciliation Runs "Family without Violence". This is another year in a row, when in the courtyard of the Krzyżowa Foundation several hundred runners, aged from preschoolers to senior, met.
This year's edition of the race referred to the Jubilee of the Foundation and the 30th anniversary of the Reconciliation Mass. On this occasion, the Foundation funded one of the prizes for the winners of particular races and age categories - a souvenir bottle with a sports towel.
Read more: VI Intergenerational Cross-Country Reconciliation Runs - 26.09.2019 (PHOTO)
On September 27th, in front of the gate of the Krzyżowa Foundation, Helmuth Caspar von Moltke - son of Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, owners of the Krzyżowa estate and members of the Kreisau Circle, in the presence of the co-founders of the Foundation, Father Adam Żak SJ and Annemarie Cordes, planted the Oak of Remembrance. It was a symbolic event showing two dimensions of the history of Krzyżowa - the one connected with the Kreisau Circle and the one connected with the creation of the Foundation.
The tree planted by Hemuth Caspar von Moltke replaced the old oak, which had to be removed due to its bad condition. It was on this oak that in August 1946, on the order of the Governor of Świdnica, a list of Germans still living in Krzyżowa was established. They were to leave the village within three days and go, like their compatriots living in this area, to Gracowice, from where they were transported to various occupation zones in Germany.
- This tree had a special meaning. It grew long, it was seen by all the inhabitants who came to the nearby church. We plant a new oak in this symbolic way, because we want to show what the Foundation is - a place that unites people, unites Poles and Germans, unites us in a common reflection on history, but also unites our common work for the future - said Dr. Robert Żurek, Managing Director of the Krzyżowa Foundation during the ceremony.
Read more: Helmuth Caspar von Moltke planted an Oak of Remembrance in Krzyżowa - 27.09.2019 (PHOTO)
