During their study visit to Poland the group participated in meetings with representatives of the academic world, publicists and leaders of the Polish-Jewish community, and also visited places and institutions associated with Polish-Jewish history, such as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Galicia Jewish Museum or the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Highlights of the trip included a meeting with Helise Lieberman, Director of the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland, lunch with journalist Adam Leszczynski about political transformation in Poland, dinner with Edyta Gawron, Head of the Center for the Study on the History and Culture of Krakow Jews and discussion about the phenomenon of Krakow Jewish Culture Festival with its representative, Robert Gądek. Our guests from FHAO were most pleased to interact with local middle school students, participants of Forum’s School of Dialogue educational program in Pruszkow – a small town nearby Warsaw. The intense weekly program concluded with a workshop dedicated to lesson planning and using the experience in Poland in everyday school work.

We would like to thank Polish Embassy in Washington and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland for their support for the project.