Dear Guests from Ukraine!
We would like to invite you to a special free guided tour through the premises of the "Krzyżowa" Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. During a 1,5 hour walk you will get to know the history of this unusual place, which holds a very important place in Polish-German relations and is now a vibrant international educational centre for young people and a space open to art and culture. It was here that the German opposition group "Kreisau Circle" was active during the Second World War, and in 1989 the famous Reconciliation Mass took place in the courtyard of the ruined manor. Today, Krzyżowa is home to Europe's largest International Youth Meeting Centre.
We invite you to listen to the story of the exceptional people who created the Foundation and to take a tour of our historic centre.
The guided tour will take place on 14 May, at 11.30 am!
Read more: ||INVITATION|| Free guided tour in Ukrainian - Krzyżowa, 14.05.2022, 11:30 AM
The current issue of "Kulturkorrespondenz" of the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe e.V. is devoted to Ukraine. It includes articles on history, voices of Ukrainians on the current war, as well as an article on the aid activities of cultural institutions, which mentions the involvement of the Krzyzowa Foundation for European Understanding.
"War changes everything. Both inside and outside Ukraine. It changes people's behaviour, as well as initiatives or institutions. This also applies to organisations that previously did not deal with humanitarian issues, but with culture in the broadest sense, and even to those for which Ukraine was only a marginal part of their work. Cultural organisations are becoming aid organisations'.
Journalist Jan Opielka spoke to Anna Kudarewska, director of the International Youth Meeting Centre of the Krzyżowa Foundation. We recommend reading this article as well as the entire issue.
Read more: ||MEDIA|| "Culture helps" - article about Krzyzowa's help for Ukraine in Kulturkorrespondenz
We are happy to announce that this week we have started Polish language classes for our guests from Ukraine. All interested persons 4 times a week take part in two-hour lessons. We have also purchased textbooks and workbooks that can be used by the refugees. Learning Polish is definitely an important step towards independence for the families living with us and we are happy that so many people take advantage of this intensive course.
We invariably support our guests in all official and living matters. Thanks to donations and financial support, we provide the families with food, hygiene and chemical products as well as medication
Afternoon activities for children and young people take place continuously in our centre. Our young guests love all kinds of sports activities. That is why, when the weather permits, they not only play football but also ride bicycles and scooters.
Read more: Krzyżowa for Ukraine. We have initiated an intensive course of learning Polish for our guests from...
Since March, we have been working with secondary schools to run educational workshops to introduce schoolchildren to the history of children who were " stolen" by the Nazis during World War II and taken to Germany for Germanisation. So far, over 300 students have taken part in the workshops.
We planned that in the first stage of the project we would focus on presenting the story that took place almost 80 years ago. Only during subsequent meetings will we talk to young people about how they see these events and how they interpret, among other things, the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, Article II, letter e of which states that "forcibly transferring children of a group to another group" is genocide.
Read more: Educational workshop about 'stolen' children || Uprooted - (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during...
