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is a project for high-school students from Poland, Croatia and Germany on the role of women in the past and present.

During the project young people throw light on the topic of the secondariness of women’s role in post-war historiography. The example of women in resistance movements against National-Socialism during the Second World War lends a good starting point for such investigations. The participants get familiar with the biographies, letters and memories of the female members of resistance groups and this way will learn more about the inhuman Nazi regime. Interviews with women who were part of resistance during the Second World War or female relatives as well as with women who are active in resistance nowadays help deepen the knowledge about the lives of these women. Furthermore, the students critically examine the role of women in their national historiographies, as well as how and in which situations women experience discrimination nowadays. The young participants will get familiar with filming and interviewing during a film and interview training. They produce their own short movies that will help them to deepen the newly gained knowledge and present it to a broad audience.

Project structure

Part 1: 07.-13.05.2019 in Krzyzowa

Part 2: 07.-13.09.2019 in Trebnitz

Further information on the project from 2015 can be found on the project blog: http://her-story.strikingly.com/

We have just finished another meeting of young people from the Marshal Józef Piłsudski Public Primary School in Jedlnia Letnisko with the students of Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium from Mölln. Days spent in Krzyżowa were a great opportunity to learn about the history of this unique place, get to know peers from another country better and discuss issues related to the ethics of digital media and courage on the Internet.

On 25 April 2019 a conference opening this year's edition of the project "Tradition unites generations" took place in Krzyżowa. It was informative, funny, and sometimes also moving.

This first meeting with the participants was to a large extent informative and organizational, but also created an opportunity to get to know the Organizers and Seniors participating in the project.

The conference also included a lecture by Dr. Tomasz Skonieczny (European Academy of the "Krzyżowa" Foundation), thanks to which the participants deepened their knowledge about the history of Krzyżowa. There was also a meeting with a representative of the Police and a lawyer - it provided the Seniors with important information on how to effectively take care of their safety.

For the needs of the project, a subpage has been launched, on which up-to-date information and announcements concerning the implemented and planned activities will be posted on a regular basis.

The first workshop of the project "Laboratory of Dialogue and Reconciliation" took place in Krzyżowa on 12-14 April 2019.

This is a Polish-German project in the field of civic education, that aims to develop practical guidelines and recommendations to support constructive dialogue based on mutual respect - as an attempt to face the growing polarization in the society.

Participants of the project are experienced trainers, educators and teachers from Poland, Germany, Holland and Ukraine.

The outcome of the project will be a publication containing methodological guidelines for didactic work conducted within the framework of formal education (as lesson scenarios), non-formal education (as scenarios for classes and workshops) and a list of good practices and guidelines for initiating actions at the local community level which aim to support the culture of dialogue, reconciliation and civic involvement.

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