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From 28.07 to 02. August a magical German-Polish school meeting took place in the International Youth Meeting Centre in Krzyżowa. It was our next summer project dedicated to the groups of children from Germany and Poland (8-12 years old). We learned together how to communicate despite the language barrier.

In addition to the magical program and magical games, the children were playfully dealing with the question of how they imagine their future, what trust and what courage means. There was a trip to the climbing park, dance and circus workshop, and at the end a magic show. A magician visited the group and learned kids little tricks.

Guitar Masters Camp (formerly Summer Guitar Festival) is a prestigious musical event taking place in Krzyżowa for nineteen years. In addition to the well-known masters of classical guitar, Krzyżowa is visited by prominent representatives of other specialties. The event includes master classes and workshops of classical, acoustic, electric, jazz, bass and flamenco guitar and dance. The festival participants have the opportunity to see DVD presentations, lectures and exhibitions of guitars and musical accessories.

In the evenings, lecturers and workshop participants meet during the "Jam Sessions" in the Palace in Krzyżowa. It is a paradise for common playing music, perfecting the art of improvisation and... other creative activities.

Last Monday (1.07.2019) we had the pleasure to host in Krzyżowa three nature scientists: Hanna Sztwiertnia, Małgorzata Pietkiewicz and Małgorzata Ruda, who opened the world of nature to the Foundation's educators.

The participants of the training looked closely at both old oaks and the smallest petals of the dandelion, listened to to fire-bellied toads and chaffins, tried to taste the sweetnes of the flowers of clovers and smelled the parsley-smelling stems of ground elder. In a word, they absorbed nature with all their senses and learned the methods of field work during the training in natural science education.

The theme of the exhibition "Forgotten Victims of Nazi Euthanasia - Murder of Patients of Silesian Medical Institutions from 1940-1945" organized by the Foundation of Saxon Memorial Sites | The Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial Site is a dark and so far unknown chapter of Silesian history: murder of mentally ill and mentally handicapped people from Silesia during the Nazi dictatorship. Stigmatized as being "worthless" and subjected to forced sterilization, these people were systematically killed from 1940 onwards. Most of the murders were carried out in Saxony.

In 1941, 1,575 patients from Silesia alone were murdered in the gas chamber of the Pirna-Sonnenstein plant. By the end of the war, several hundred people had died of starvation or overdose of medicines in the Saxon medical and nursing homes. But even in Silesia the sick were murdered. In special wards of children's medical centres in Wrocław and Lubliniec, doctors killed young people and children who were considered irreversibly disabled.

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