On a conversation with history witness Helmuth Caspar von Moltke in Frankfurt am Main on 02.09.2022
While the bells of Frankfurt Cathedral were ringing outside, one could feel the end of an era in the lecture theatre of Haus am Dom. The peace order that had been worked on in Europe for so long seemed to have come to an end because of Russia's war with Ukraine, even if it still takes time for us to realise this. This was the gloomy analysis of Dr Robert Zurek who opened his talk with an eyewitness, Helmuth Caspar von Moltke - son of Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke, co-founders of the Kreisau Circle. Helmuth Caspar's father, was murdered by the Nazis in 1945 along with 7 other members for civil resistance.
80 years after the first two major meetings of the Krzyzowa Circle, questions were asked in Frankfurt am Main about the validity of the legacy. PhD Anna Quirin, director of the Freya von Moltke Foundation, spoke to Helmuth Caspar von Moltke about his childhood and his memories of life in Krzyżowa and the meetings of the Krzyżowa Circle in the House on the Hill.
Read more: Responsibility, Community, Europe. The legacy of the Kreisau Circle today
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From 11th to 16th of September, 46 young people (between 16 and 19 years old) from the XXVIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Jana Kochanowskiego in Warszawa and the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule in Ober-Ramstadt, together with their teachers, met in Krzyżowa to get to know each other and also to deal in several workhops with "Polish-German History and remembrance culture". Besides integration and language animation activities and a tour through the history of Krzyżowa, they actively exchanged in small working groups on their family histories, important historical events of their countries, discussed about the different perspectives and aspects influencing history and memory and on questions, inspired by the exhibition "Courage and Reconciliation": How to contribute to the future? How to build Europe together? How to remember the past?
Read more: School exchange Warszawa-Ober-Ramstadt, 11-16.09.2022 Krzyżowa
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Polish-German youth exchange Ulanów- Kempen, 12-16.09.2022 Krzyżowa.
A Polish-German youth exchange between the schools Gymansium Thomaeum from Kempen and the Kazimierz Rupa Public Elementary School in Wólka Tanewska from Ulanów took place in Krzyżowa on 12-16.09.2022.
The exchange involved 32 male and female pupils, from Germany and Poland, aged between 12 and 15.
The theme of the exchange was: Your life and our life in Europe. During the exchange, pupils and students took part in an excursion to Wrocław, a history walk, group integration and numerous workshops on diversity and human rights.
Read more: Polish-German youth exchange Ulanów- Kempen, 12-16.09.2022 Krzyżowa.
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Polish-German-Bulgarian youth exchange Siedlce-Mühlenbeck-Warba, 05-09.09.2022 Krzyżowa
From 05.09.2022 to 09.09.2022 a Polish-German-Bulgarian youth exchange between schools took place at the IYMC Krzyżowa:
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Gesamtschule from Mühlenbeck,
- Hetman Stanisław IV High School from Siedlce and
- Sredno uchiliste "Pejo Kr. Yavorov" from Varna.
This was the first exchange in the history of the International Youth Meeting Centre in Krzyżowa in which a school from Bulgaria participated. Almost 50 pupils and students took part in the exchange.
Read more: Polish-German-Bulgarian youth exchange Siedlce-Mühlenbeck-Warba, 05-09.09.2022 Krzyżowa
