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We are with you! ми з вами!

Today (24.02.2022) Russia attacked Ukraine, our Neighbours, Friends, Co-workers and Associates, Families of people who are dear to us. We are shocked and moved by this situation.

We are also thinking of our Friends, Partners in Russia, who are working for peace, but live in a country that is conducting a war. We remember our Friends in Belarus, who look on with dismay as their country collaborates in this aggression. We think of the citizens of those societies who want peaceful coexistence, freedom and independence, but find themselves faced with war.

We feel powerless when confronted with such unjustified aggression. And we want to help. How?

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||Online meeting|| "Reconciliation in the political context" dr hab. Urszula Pękala

Evangelical School of Theology (EST) in Wroclaw invites you to the online meeting "Christian patent for conflict resolution? Reconciliation in the political context” led by dr hab. Urszula Pęka-la, deputy manager of the Memorial Site of the Krzyżowa Foundation. The event will take place on 1st March at 19:00 via the ZOOM platform and will be streaming on Facebooku.

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#StolenMemory - searching for the families of former concentration camps prisoners

The Krzyżowa Foundation takes part in the "Ways of Remembrance" project, under which young people from Poland, Germany and Russia are looking for the families of former concentration camps prisoners. It is a project carried out in cooperation with the Arolsen Archives, which possess the belongings of former prisoners (mostly from the concentration camps Neuengamme and Dachau), which the Allies secured on the areas of the former camps after 1945 and reached the Archives in the early 1960s.

Willing to help the Arolsen Archives, which set themselves the goal of handing over the personal items to the families of the victims, the young people through the Krzyżowa Foundation ask for help in finding relatives of former concentration camp prisoners.

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„Ways of remembrance” - Polish-German online youth exchange – 14-18.02.2022

From 14th to 18th February the Polish-German online youth exchange „Ways of remembrance” took place at IYMC Krzyżowa. It was a part of the project in which participate 8 schools from Poland, Germany and Russia. Involved in the Kreisau-groups I and II was 70 pupils (age 16–17) and 6 teachers from the German Berufliche Schule des Kreises Stormarn in Bad Oldesloe and the Polish I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Mickiewicza in Węgrów.

The pupils worked on a very special historical topic: based on the Arolsen Archives projects documentED and #StolenMemory they had the opportunity to learn about the historical and political background of National Socialism and come into contact with the individual stories of persecuted people and their families. With the help of original documents, they did research on personal destinies and items (so called „Effekten“) of former prisoners of concentration camps. The goal of their work was to search for relatives and, after finding them, hand them over the personal item(s) of their family members. During the whole week, pupils worked in small binational groups and prepared documentation about their work.

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