In late May, students from Jan Kochanowski Middle School in Konin participated in a field trip to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The trip was awarded to the students for their project commemorating the local Jewish community that won first prize in Forum’s competition for 2012 School of Dialogue participants.

The program included a whole-day educational study tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau as well as sightseeing of Krakow most important sites such as the Kazimierz Jewish District, Krakow’s Old Town, Oskar Schindler’s Factory and the Galicia Jewish Museum. The trip broadened the students knowledge but also made them more sensitive towards history and its implications.