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Welcome new volunteers in Krzyżowa

In the autumn, we traditionally welcome new volunteers to Krzyżowa. Two new fantastic friends - Charlotte Marquardt and Mykyta Nazarow - have been with us for several weeks.

Where they came from, why they came to Krzyżowa and what are their first impressions - you can read about this in short self-presentations.

We are very happy that Charlotte and Mykyta are already with us and we wish them that the time they will spend in Krzyżowa will be creative, interesting and full of good emotions!

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||REPORT|| School exchange Leszno-Kaiserslautern – 2-7.10.2021

From 2nd to 7th of October 2021, a Polish-German youth exchange took place in Krzyżowa. It was attended by students of the III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Lesznie and the Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern. Young people participated together in workshops devoted mainly to history, as well as language and integration activities. The program also included a one-day trip to the nearby Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica.

It was not the first meeting of young people from Leszno and Kaiserslautern in Krzyżowa. The previous one took place in 2019, and at that time also students from Odessa, who this year, due to the restrictions related to the pandemic, could not participate in the exchange, took part in it.

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Film screening and discussion || Educational project "Festival of UnSettled Ideas" - Wrocław, 12.10.2021

On 12 October, the Lower Silesian Film Centre in Wrocław hosted a special screening of the film 'Invaders Despite Their Will. Poland's involvement in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia". The event was attended by 50 people - students and teachers from the XIII High School in Wroclaw. The young people also took part in a debate in which Katarzyna Kaczorowska and Aureliusz Marek Pędziwol talked about whether the past is an obstacle in forming neighbourly relations.

The event was organised by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and the Paweł Włodkowic Institute as part of the project "Festival of unSettled Ideas" which is being carried out in Poland, Germany and Romania within the “Europe for Citizens. Strand 1 European Remembrance” programme and is co-financed by the European Commission.

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Educational project || Closer to contemporary history of the region

The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe together with the centre 'Memory and Future' are carrying out a project for historical education 'Closer to modern history of the region' for secondary schools in the districts of Świdnica and Wrocław.

During the project, students will participate in workshops on the history of Lower Silesia after 1945, during which the main focus will be on presenting the first post-war years, the history of the first Polish settlers and the action of "polonisation" of space and stories about the past of the Western Territories. After the workshops, the students will visit the Centre of History "Zajezdnia", where they will be able to see the permanent exhibition "Wrocław 1945-2016", telling the story of the post-war life of the city and its inhabitants.

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