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.
Read more: The exhibition "Forgotten Victims of Nazi Euthanasia - Murder of Patients of Silesian Medical...
A Western Balkans Summit will be held in Poznań on 3-5 July. It is a meeting of EU ministers with representatives of the governments of the Western Balkan countries aspiring to join the EU.
As part of the summit, on 4 July, meetings of the Civil Society Forum will be held. It is one of the forms of cooperation, consultation, exchange of ideas and experience between non-governmental organisations and representatives of civil society, which is aimed at supporting initiatives of the Western Balkan countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia.
As part of the panel "Overcoming the legacy of the past", the Polish experience of reconciliation with Germany will be presented by Dr. Tomasz Skonieczny - Deputy Head of the European Academy of the Krzyżowa Foundation.
The Western Balkans Summit is part of the Berlin Process, an initiative launched in 2014 to support the integration of these countries with the European Union. In 2019, Poland took the lead in this process.
Read more: Krzyżowa at the Western Balkans Summit - Poznań, 4 July 2019
For the second year in a row, a press conference announcing the Krzyżowa-Music Chamber Music Festival was held in the friendly interiors of OP ENHEIM in Wrocław.
They took part in the meeting with journalists:
- Tamara Chorąży - coordinator of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival on behalf of the Krzyżowa Foundation
- Isabella Guzy - Assistant Artistic Director of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival
- Małgorzata Hućko - project coordinator, Bente Kahan Foundation
- Anna Kudarewska - Program Director of the Krzyżowa Foundation
- Paulina Schmid - Deputy Director General of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival.
The participants of the conference announced the details of the Festival. We could hear about the musicians who will come to Krzyżowa, about the repertoire of the concerts and about the events accompanying the festival. Together with Małgorzata Hućko we could also invite you to a joint concert "Summer in the White Stork Synagogue" and Krzyżowa-Music and present this festival in Wrocław.
Read more: Press conference Krzyżowa-Music - Wrocław, 27.06.2019 (PHOTO)
On 14-20 June, another Polish-German school exchange took place in Krzyżowa. The participants of the meeting came from schools in Otwock and Herford.
Thanks to the planned integration and creative workshops the young people could get to know each other better. The meeting was also an opportunity to learn about the history of Poland and Germany and their mutual relations over the last century. The young people also gained knowledge about human rights and discussed the timeliness of history. The group took part in visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Read more: Polish-German school exchange Otwock - Herford - Krzyżowa, 14-20.06.2019
