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New English language edition of Auschwitz Memorial monthly magazine "Oś"
In the first of 2011 issues of this monthly, we summarize attendance at the Auschwitz Memorial. In the past year, the grounds of the former Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz were visited by 1.38 million people. In the 60-year history of the Museum, this is a record number.
We would like to draw particular attention to the following two essays, the fruit born out of the Jewish Center’s project entitled, Why do we need tolerance? These texts were written by two students from the Marcin Wadowita High School in Wadowice. “The twenty-first century is a bit too diplomatic, you’d say—too correct for public oppression. But to oppress, it does not only have to be physical and it does not only have to be public. A quiet and effective way to destroy a person, or persons, belonging to a certain group is through intolerance,” Karina Polak writes.
On the pages of the International Youth Meeting Center, there is a report about the two Cracow Poetry Salons that were held in December, where the guests were August Kowalczyk and Andrzej Seweryn. You will also find an article about the first meeting of secondary school students from Weil der Stadt and German studies students from the State Higher Vocational School in Oświęcim who are taking part in the project Human Rights Yesterday—Human Rights Today.
For seven years, the Center for Dialogue and Prayer has held Days of Recollection around the New Year Holiday. In this issue of Oś you will find reflections of participants who attended the recent meeting At the Threshold of Auschwitz.
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