The East-West European Memorial Meeting in Krzyżowa/Kreisau is aimed at employees of memorial sites, museums, memorials, educational centers, human rights organizations or contemporary witness projects. The aim of the memorial meeting is to get to know each other and to exchange knowledge and experience. From 29 March to 1 April 2023, it took place for the 20th time in Kreisau.
You can download a detailed conference report as a pdf on this page.
20 Memorial Seminar Krzyzowa 2023.pdf
This year's meeting focused on insurrection, protest and resistance - debates in Eastern and Western Europe in the post-war and post-communist period and the remembrance of these in museums and memorial sites. Among the lecturers were Dr. habil. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Prof. Dr. Claudia Weber (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)), Prof. em. Dr. Peter Steinbach (German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin), Dr. Raphael Utz (German Historical Museum, Berlin), Dr. Martyna Gradzka-Rejak (Biuro Badań Historycznych IPN and Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego, Warsaw), Irmgard Zündorf (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Research, Potsdam), Nataliia Ivchyk (NGO Mnemonic, Ukraine), Vytautas Jurkus i Vytautas Petrikenas (9th Fort Kaunas, Lithuania) and Dr. Andrea Genest (Ravensbrück Memorial).
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Dominik Kretschmann, head of the memorial department of Krzyzowa Foundation, takes part in the “Governance Academy”.
What attitude and what skills are needed to react to a rapidly changing environment and what skills and strategies can help to implement changes in rigid structures? Which competencies are sustainable? These and other questions will be discussed during our 3-day seminar and the topic of change will be explored in all its facets.
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1 September 2022 marks the 83rd anniversary of Germany's attack on Poland. How is this day celebrated in Poland?
How do organisations that carry out projects in Poland funded by the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) Foundation look at this day.
We invite you to read a text that appeared on the EVZ website based on several interviews - one of them was conducted with Dominik Kretschmann - Manager of the Memorial Site in Krzyżowa (text in German).
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Invitation to an exhibition
From 8 September, the exhibition "Distance from the Troops" will be on display for one month on the first floor of Kreisau Palace. The exhibition was designed by the Peace Library in Berlin, the central design element being many black and white photos. In addition, the biographies of some men who refused to serve in the armed forces on the German side during the Second World War, such as Heinrich Böll or Franz Jägerstätter, are presented.
Read more: Invitation to an exhibition "Distance from the Troops"!
