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Remembrance and reconciliation - Freiwilliger Friedensdienst in Auschwitz
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project "Memory and Reconciliation" is a part of educational work of Krakowska Fundacja Centrum Dialogu i Modlitwy w Oświęcimiu (CDiM ). The project is aimed at young people from Germany, Poland and the other European countries. CDiM is located near the former Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The aim of CDiM is to create a place where people of various denominations and creed can come for meetings, conversation, learning, reflections and prayer. CDiM helps to commemorate the victims and to build a world of mutual respect, reconciliation and peace. The Education Department of CDiM carries out this kind of work in which the volunteers are involved. The volunteers help with watching over the study groups visiting CDiM for 3-6 days. They arrange group programmes together with the other workers of the Education Department and with the group leaders. They also participate in fulfilling those programmes. During the meetings organised in schools of Oświęcim the volunteers build bridges between the Polish pupils and the international youth who come to CDiM. Furthermore the volunteers assist in the library, gathering archives, publishing and making exhibitions and lectures. The project "Peace Service" wants to establish mutual understanding through overcoming of stereotypes. Moreover, the volunteers have the opportunities for personal as well as professional development and will acquire new skills.
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