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New titles in the library of the Krzyzowa Foundation

A whole series of books have enriched the library of the Krzyzowa Foundation in recent weeks. Among them are biographies on Dorothy von Moltke (by Urte von Berg) and Konrad von Moltke (by Claire Weill) and current volumes from the series of publications of the Forschungsgemeinschaft 20. Juli 1944 e.V.
The entire stock of the library can be viewed online via the Foundation's homepage. https://biblioteka.krzyzowa.org.pl/

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The Berlin-based publishing house Metropol Verlag has supported the Krzyzowa Foundation with a
whole box of books hot off the press. The titles, which deal with aspects of the history of the 20th
century or the way we deal with it today, are a real enrichment of the Foundation's library. Many
thanks to Metropol Verlag!

Onboarding Memories
Third workshop – 18-25 August 2022
The third workshop of the Onboarding Memories project is already underway. After Germany and France, this one takes the participants to Treviso, a city near Venice. Originally, this part of the project was supposed to take place in Lithuania, but the partners from Fort IX were no longer able to organise such an encounter in the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine in February of this year.
Now it Treviso in Italy, and through the Krzyzowa Foundation as project partner, pupils from Dzierżoniów are once again taking part.

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78th anniversary of 20 July 1944

On 20 July 2022, Dominik Kretschmann took part in the commemorations on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of 20 July 1944 as head of the memorial of the Krzyzowa Foundation for European Understanding.

The official commemoration already began on 19 July. On the evening of that day, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ziemann gave a lecture entitled "20 July 1932: A Missed Chance to Save the Weimar Republic?", which provided a broader context of the failed Weimar Republic in relation to the attempted coup d'état of 20 July 1944.

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