On 14-15.06.2022, a meeting of the partners of the EduSkills+ Reflect2 project took place, which is a continuation of the project “Reflections: educating for critical thinking, inclusive societies and dynamic engagement” in which the manager of the IYMC, Anna Kudarewska, took part. This was the first live meeting after the pandemic, this time in Graz, where we were hosted by the Austrian Center for Philosophy for Children and Youth (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie).
Read more: Meeting of the partners of the EduSkills+ Reflect2 project, 14-15.06.2022
In February, our new colleagues Sarah Schumayer and Leonie Żelazko started work at the International Youth Meeting Center. As specialists for educational projects, they very quickly got used to their new duties and started working with youth.
Sarah and Leonie have already been in Krzyżowa for some time and have had the opportunity to get to know both the place and the work of the Foundation well. As part of our instagram series "FACES OF KRZYŻOWA", they chose their favourite places on the grounds of the Foundation and told us why they are important to them.
We invite you to read these short presentations, which will tell you a lot about our new colleagues. We are very happy that they are with us and wish them a very fruitful and full of good experiences time at the Foundation.
Read more: New colleagues at the International Youth Meeting Centre
At the beginning of spring, we started a new project called "Making Ourselves at Home" in Krzyżowa. It was a Polish-German-Greek youth meeting that took place from 24-30 March 2022 and was attended by a group of 36 girls and boys aged 15-17.
Students of Campus Efeuweg from Berlin, Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr XV we Wrocławiu and The 3rd High School of Arta participated in classes and workshops devoted mainly to the issues of migration, integration and empowerment. These were topics that are close to them, as most of the project participants had migration experience. An important event of the exchange was the renewal of the wooden, colorful rainbow located on the foundation's premises, which is a kind of symbol of our youth projects. It was created 12 years ago on the initiative of Klaus and Claudia Gust, who have now decided to cover the cost of purchasing the paint for its renovation and came to Krzyżowa in person to take part in the renovation together with young people.
Read more: ||REPORT|| "Making Ourselves at Home" - Polish-German-Greek youth meeting – 24-30 March 2022
The Krzyżowa Foundation takes part in the "Ways of Remembrance" project, under which young people from Poland, Germany and Russia are looking for the families of former concentration camps prisoners. It is a project carried out in cooperation with the Arolsen Archives, which possess the belongings of former prisoners (mostly from the concentration camps Neuengamme and Dachau), which the Allies secured on the areas of the former camps after 1945 and reached the Archives in the early 1960s.
Willing to help the Arolsen Archives, which set themselves the goal of handing over the personal items to the families of the victims, the young people through the Krzyżowa Foundation ask for help in finding relatives of former concentration camp prisoners.
Read more: #StolenMemory - searching for the families of former concentration camps prisoners
