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New English language edition of "Oś" Monthly Magazine
For four days during a conference entitled “Auschwitz and the Holocaust against the backdrop of genocide in the twentieth century”, teachers from across Poland attended lectures, as well as discussed the nature and the consequences of genocide in the modern world. Discussion also focused on contemporary challenges facing education about tragic events of the past. During the conference, which took place at the International Youth Meeting Center, panel discussions were held dedicated to the topic of “responsibility” in which several spoke, including: Prof. Zdzisław Mach, Prof. Andrzej Zoll and Zbigniew Gluza. In Oś you will find excerpts of the debate, as well as an article on the conference.
In this issue, among others, we write about a visit by Polish educators to Nuremberg, the Documentation Center, which is located in the historic Congress Hall on the former site of the party congresses of the Third Reich (photograph of this is on the cover), as well as a valuable gift the daughters of former Auschwitz prisoner Stefania Budniak transferred to the Museum—A prisoners striped dress, a piece of fabric with a camp number, prisoner triangle, as well as handwritten notes.
On the pages of the Jewish Center, you will read about the Israeli music group Hatikva 6, who were one of the guests of the first Life Festival, and the visit of fourteen American cadets to Poland and Oświęcim for the program “American Services Academies Program.” Also on the pages of the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer, there are articles about the visit to Oświęcim of a group of survivors from Hiroshima as well as the “Bearing Witness” retreat.
