In October Forum for Dialogue’s representatives met with two groups of study trips to Poland participants. On October 14 towns of Otwock and Karczew were visited by American, Canadian and Australian students and professors from The American University of Paris, institution providing an American-style university education for degree-seeking students from around the world. The group focuses its research and learning on the memory about the Holocaust and was very interested in the question how this issue manifests on the local level in contemporary Poland. After the brief presentation of the Forum’s educational activities and the School of Dialogue program, visit participants met at local history museum with Monika Czub, Leader of Dialogue active in Otwock and Karczew.

She guided them on a tour of the towns’ Jewish history and explained her initiatives aimed at commemorating the local Jewish community annihilated during the World War II.

The group of visitors affiliated with the Beth El Synagogue met with Forum for Dialogue’s representatives on October 24 as a part of their Eastern Europe tour, during which they visited Prague, Budapest, Krakow and Warsaw with a program offering ample opportunities for meeting and conversations with members of local Jewish communities and spokepersons representing organizations working towards promoting tolerance, intercultural dialogue and remembrance of once-thriving Central European Jewish life.

photo: J.Szkarłat