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New English language edition of Oś Monthly Magazine
In this edition of Oś Magazine you will find three interviews. We spoke i.a. to a French photographer Emmanuel Berry, whose works were presented at the exhibition at block 12 on the site of the former Auschwitz I camp.
42 black and white picture depict the closest neighborhood of the Auschwitz complex: rivers, forests, villages, single houses, fields of suburban areas. "The place asks for seriousness, respect, and humility. Mainly and above all, I wanted my pictures to come as close as possible to a pause from exhaling in an almost musical way"—says the artist.
You can also read the second part of the interview with a theologian Norbert Reck as well an interview with Ewa Szprynger, the head of the Jewish Motifs Association. We asked her about the contemporary situation in Jewish film and the topics discussed by the filmmakers.
Accept that we publish two articles about meetings with former prisoners of Auschwitz: a report from a meeting of Auschwitz Memorial guides with Mieczysław Kita, as well as an article by a former prisoner Tadeusz Sobolewicz who wrote about his thoughts concerning meetings with German youth. "This is your task—build a world without hatred. Look everywhere for tolerance and compromise so that you shield people from total catastrophe. The world can be better"—wrote Mr. Sobolewicz.
We also present another workshop at the International Youth Meeting Center "Human Rights And National Socialist Propaganda—Crimes Against Humanity, Then And Now".
Publication of the English edition of Oś is possible thanks to the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
This issue of the magazine was published in a time difficult for all Poles—during the National Mourning, when it was yet hard to believe in what had happened near Katyń on April 10 and it was even harder to understand and explain it. We should remember to be together in this difficult period, maybe it will help us to get back to normal life and to deal with those terrible and unexpected facts. We can only hope that this situation will make us better and we will be able to use the wave of sadness and emotions that stroke us so heavily to strengthen ourselves and raise our awareness of life that we can direct only seemingly.
