Participation in the project allowed young people from Israel and Poland to learn about the life stories of three people important for the common memory of Poles and Jews: Janusz Korczak (Polish Jew), Juliusz Markowicz (inhabitant of Murowana Goślina, Prussian Jew) and Shlomo Wolkowicz (Jew-Ukrainian-Pole). The first two died in Treblinka, while Shlomo miraculously survived the war. It was important for the project participants to experience face-to-face meetings with peers from another country, work together and exchange views on freedom, courage and sacrifice, i.e. values that not only build moral and legal order in Europe, but also shaped the state of Israel. The crucial part of the project was a visit to Yad Vashem, where young people learned how fascism that led to the Holocaust developed. The youth learned about the fate of the Markowicz family told by their living descendants in Haifa, Israel.
Jakub Niewiński
Murowana Goślina
