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Temporary exhibition | "Growing up. Western and Northern Lands. Beginnings"

More than 300 photographs and films showing adaptation to new living conditions in post-war Poland will be shown in a new temporary exhibition which will be available until March on the premises of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe.

The exhibition "Growing up. Western and Northern Lands. The beginning" shows selected aspects of the first few years after the war in the lands which were incorporated into Poland. The resulting consequences, such as population exchange, the need to rebuild wartime damage and severed social ties, and above all to build a new identity, as well as the specific actions of the communist authorities in relation to these territories, represent a common and unique historical experience of the Western and Northern Lands and their inhabitants.

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New educational project || “Uprooted – (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II”

The Krzyżowa Foundation is launching a new educational project 'Uprooted - (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II', dedicated to the story of children who were taken away from their families by the occupying German authorities during World War II and sent to Germany to be Germanised and brought up as citizens of the Third Reich.

After 1945, despite efforts made by the authorities of the occupied countries during the war, the Allied authorities and the Red Cross, most of these children never returned to their families. Their birth certificates were falsified and documents proving their true origins destroyed. Only a few, as adults, many years after the war, learned the truth about their origins.

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PUBLICATION || Conversations about dialogue. With notes - edited by Tomasz Skonieczny

Conversations about dialogue. With notes - edited by Tomasz Skonieczny, published by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, 2021

FROM THE INTRODUCTION

"The publication which is now displayed on your screens is the result of a series of meetings and conversations to which in 2021 we invited people who are professionally involved - from a practical or theoretical point of view - in issues related to what our public life looks like and, consequently, our attitude towards each other. Or, looking at things from a broader perspective, what elements determine what our culture of dialogue looks like.

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Third Age Volunteers - closing of 2021

At the beginning of 2021, in the face of the ongoing pandemic, the activities of the Third Age Voluntary Service in Krzyzowa were questionable. As it turned out that the applicable safety restrictions and considerations did not interfere with the implementation of a number of activities. Our Seniors regularly took part in intergenerational garden workshops, during which, together with young people from the Primary School in Grodziszcze, they learned about the issues of ecological food production and shared their experience. Each month, Third Age Volunteers also participated in working meetings to evaluate and plan current tasks. They also helped in the construction of a garden in Krzyzowa.

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