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New English Language Edition of "Oś" Monthly Magazine
In June, the Jewish Center hosted FASPE project participants, on which we reported in the previous issue of the monthly. Among them were young journalists as well as students from the Columbia University in New York. In this issue of Oś, we are publishing their texts, which were the effect of the ten-day program.
To start with, we have chosen general reflections and descriptions of the entire visit, as well as a text written by Eugene Kwibuka from Rwanda, who, in a particularly emotional manner, wrote about Auschwitz in the context of the genocide experienced within his own country.
On the Museum pages, you will find an article about, among others, eighteen original letters written in the concentration camp that were donated to the Museum Archive. Their authors were Rodryg Romer, his daughter Elżbieta, and her fiancé Maksymilian Lohman, who were imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1943. Family members of the former prisoners donated these priceless heirlooms.
Within this Oś, we also summarize the first International Summer Academy, which was prepared for teachers from abroad by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust; as well as report on a visit to the Memorial Site by members of the International Council of Christians and Jews.
For the third time, a group of students attending the School of Management of Public Organizations of North Rhine-Westphalia, have come to Oświęcim on a study visit. Why is it so important for future German officials to visit the Memorial Site? Gerhard Hausmann, a lecturer at this German institution, answers this question in an interview in this Oś.
We also invite you to visit the exhibition at the International Youth Meeting Center. For the first time in Poland, the works of Pat Mercer Hutchens are on display. In total this includes twenty-five reproductions of oil paintings, which are an artistic and literary interpretation from the infamous Auschwitz Album. We also encourage you to take a close look at the second part of the guidebook created by the Jewish Center dealing with the Jewish history of Oświęcim.
