From 16th to 21st June, a Polish-German youth meeting with Agricolagymnasium from Hohenmölsen and Emanuel Bułhak Private School Complex from Warsaw took place in Krzyżowa. This is the ninth partnership meeting of both schools. How did it differ from the first meeting? Certainly, the emotions connected with coming to Krzyżowa are always the same, despite the fact that every year new people join the group. A constant element is also the curiosity about the new place, the willingness to meet new people and the fear of facing the topics of World War II together. However, the memories of the time spent together in Krzyżowa will surely be diverse.
This year, 38 participants and 4 teachers took part in the project.
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The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe together with its partners organized a conference which reflected on how Krzyżowa and other places for dialogue and meetings can contribute to the process of conflict prevention not only at national but also at European level.
In June 1989 a conference brought together different people from Poland, both parts of Germany, the Netherlands and the United States of America in Wroclaw. The event was hosted by the Club of Catholic Intelligence in Wroclaw and was entitled "Christ in Society".
The topics of the conference were opposition and resistance, youth and adult education, applied Christianity and democracy. In concrete terms, however, the participants were also concerned with saving the Krzyżowa estate, where the Kreisau circle had met during the Second World War. In Krzyżowa the visible decay was to be stopped and the complex transformed into a meeting place.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of this meeting, which was described by the participants as a drastic and inspiring experience and which is the birth moment of today's Krzyżowa Foundation, we organized a conference which refered to the one from 1989.
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Within the framework of the ‘Monuments of Memory 1918-2018’ project, coordinated by the Krzyżowa Foundation, in schools in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, are conducted workshops on selected elements of historical policy and ways in which societies commemorate the history of their nation.
During the workshops the pupils got to know the assumptions of the ‘Monuments of Remembrance 1918-2018’ project and methods of preparing descriptions of monuments. After that pupils, under the supervision of a history teacher, study not only the circumstances of the creation of the objects of their choosing - but above all how they exist in the consciousness of the local community.
The project ‘Monuments of Remembrance 1918-2018’ is implemented within the framework of the Europe for Citizens programme (component: European Remembrance).
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