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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Krzyzowa Foundation, in cooperation with the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, conducted special historical workshops. They were conducted from November to December and were attended by exactly 600 high school students from Wroclaw, Dzierżoniów, Boleslawiec and Lwówek Slaski.

The project was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

More information on the history of the Warsaw ghetto can be found at www.1943.pl

Read more: 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Summary of educational workshops

On 20-21 September, in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, the first partner meeting of the project "Transcaucasian and Visegrad Nations Common Memory - Occupants or Liberators? Democracy or Tyranny?" is being held.

The aim of the project it to bring the experiences of Armenians and Georgians closer together and juxtapose them with events that took place in Central Europe.

Krzyżowa Foundation will be represented by Dr Tomasz Skonieczny, Deputy Head of the European Academy.

This project is being carried out in 2023-24 in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, as part of a grant from the International Visegrad Fund.

Krzyzowa Foundation partners are Post Bellum (Czech Republic), Post Bellum SK (Slovakia), Terra Recognita Alapítvány - A közép-európai párbeszédért (Hungary), Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (Georgia) and ‘Hazarashen’ Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies (Armenia).

Read more: Dr Tomasz Skonieczny takes part in the partner meeting of the project 'Transcaucasian and Visegrad...

On Friday, 2 June, PhD Robert Zurek - Managing Director, Board Member of the Krzyzowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe will give a lecture on 'Germany-Poland, Poland-Ukraine and their path from enmity to partnership'.

The meeting with PhD Zurek is organised as part of the KAAD (Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst) International Academy.

Programme of the entire meeting in german language:

2023 05 30 Programm und Ausschreibung KAAD Auslandsakademie final.pdf

Read more: Lecture by PhD Robert Zurek at the KAAD International Academy, 02.06.2023 Lublin

History of the functioning and collapse of the communist system in Central and Eastern Europe is relatively* well known. But what do we know about the communist period in Caucasus countries? What was everyday life like for the inhabitants of the Soviet republics there? What was the course of the political transformation after the collapse of the USSR in 1991?

Read more: What did the fall of communism and political transition look like in Armenia and Georgia? A new...