30 000 young Jews from Israel, USA, Canada, Australia, France and other countries visit Poland each year. Forum of Dialogue organized meetings between Polish and Jewish young people for eight years, enabling their participants to challenge their own preconceptions. They come to a country which they often regard as the cemetery of the Jewish people and that visiting it must be a difficult experience. The aim of Forum of Dialogue was to show these young people contemporary Poland as well. Every meeting was carefully prepared by a group of Forum’s experts and educators, basing on field-tested scripts.

The educators suggested integrating activities aimed at broadening the participants’ knowledge about Polish-Jewish relations and facilitating mutual understanding. Young people talked about love, music and sport, but also about life in present-day Poland and Israel, about the Jewish diaspora and about the Holocaust. Their actions brought great results. When Forum sociologists conducted a survey among participants, it turned out that already after one such meeting, the Polish young people showed 20% more positive feelings towards Jewish youth – and vice versa. The program was being implemented between 2003 and 2011, and in the years 2008–2010 in cooperation with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.