The first part of the project took place in Poland in Murowana Goślina, Zielonka and Poznań. The second part – in Lithuania, Vilkija, Kaunas and Vilnius. With this project we made young Poles and Lithuanians realize that before the war our homelands were homes with many rooms inhabited by different ethnic groups: Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Germans and others. Together, we were learning tolerance and openness to the other. The project also included a workshop “Axis of Memory” focusing on comparison of historical narratives on memory in Lithuania and Poland. The youth also built a large “Memory House” in Murowana Goslina and participated in workshops on frottage at the Jewish cemetery in Vilkija, Lithuania. The highlight of the project happening in Poland consisted of marking with sidewalk chalk the footsteps of people the students met on the streets of Murowana Goślina. The footsteps led from the house of the Jewish family Cohn on Rogozińska Street to Mściszewska Street, where the Jewish cemetery was located. In a symbolic way, the youth showed the existential journey of man from life to death. When the project moved to Lithuania, we visited the synagogue in Kaunas and Kiejdany, a small Lithuanian were before the war there were 9 synagogues. There are only two synagogues left to this day.
The project was financed by the Polish-Lithuanian Youth Exchange Fund.
Projekt finansowany był przez Polsko-Litewski Fundusz Wymiany Młodzież
