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Young American Journalists in Germany and Poland International Summer Academy the Faces of Justice Auschwitz Album Revisited O Ś WIĘ CIM ISSN 1899-4407 PEOPLE CULTURE HISTORY YOUNG AMERICAN JOURNALISTS IN GERMANY AND POLAND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY THE FACES OF JUSTICE AUSCHWITZ ALBUM REVISITED no. 31 July 2011 Oś—Oświęcim, People, History, Culture magazine, no. 31, July 2011 EDITORIAL BOARD: Oś—Oświęcim, People, History, Culture magazine EDITORIAL Last month, the Jewish Center host- Their authors were Rodryg Romer, Site? Gerhard Hausmann, a lecturer ed FASPE project participants, on his daughter Elżbieta, and her fi ancé at this German institution, answers which we reported in the previous Maksymilian Lohman, who were im- this question in an interview in this issue of the monthly. Among them prisoned in Auschwitz in 1943. Fam- Oś. were young journalists as well as ily members of the former prisoners students from the Columbia Univer- donated these priceless heirlooms. We also invite you to visit the ex- Editor: sity in New York. In this issue of Oś, Within this Oś, we also summarize hibition at the International Youth Paweł Sawicki we are publishing their texts, which the fi rst International Summer Acad- Meeting Center. For the fi rst time Editorial secretary: were the effect of the ten-day pro- emy, which was prepared for teach- in Poland, the works of Pat Mercer Agnieszka Juskowiak-Sawicka gram. To start with, we have chosen ers from abroad by the International Hutchens are on display. In total this Editorial board: general refl ections and descriptions Center for Education about Ausch- includes twenty-fi ve reproductions Bartosz Bartyzel Wiktor Boberek of the entire visit, as well as a text witz and the Holocaust; as well as of oil paintings, which are an artis- Jarek Mensfelt written by Eugene Kwibuka from report on a visit to the Memorial tic and literary interpretation from Olga Onyszkiewicz Rwanda, who, in a particularly emo- Site by members of the International the infamous Auschwitz Album. We Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech tional manner, wrote about Ausch- Council of Christians and Jews. also encourage you to take a close Artur Szyndler witz in the context of the genocide look at the second part of the guide- Columnist: experienced within his own country. For the third time, a group of stu- book created by the Jewish Center Mirosław Ganobis dents attending the School of Man- dealing with the Jewish history of Design and layout: On the Museum pages, you will agement of Public Organizations of Oświęcim. Agnieszka Matuła, Grafi kon fi nd an article about, among others, North Rhine-Westphalia, have come Translations: eighteen original letters written in to Oświęcim on a study visit. Why Paweł Sawicki David R. Kennedy the concentration camp that were is it so important for future Ger- Editor-in-chief Proofreading: donated to the Museum Archive. man offi cials to visit the Memorial [email protected] Beata Kłos Cover: Rebecca Lim Photographer: Paweł Sawicki A GALLERY PUBLISHER: OF THE 20TH CENTURY Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum www.auschwitz.org.pl Here is one, short artistic and biographically based subject! Re- cently, I watched, notably, not the fi rst time a fi lm on a public televi- PARTNERS: sion channel... broadcast on by a paid provider, a Soviet-Japanese Jewish Center fi lm, which was made in 1975, entitled Dersu Uzala that was di- www.ajcf.pl rected by the Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa, who was award- ed an Oscar! Today I am also once again reading the book by Center for Dialogue Vladimir Arsenyev, Along the Us- and Prayer Foundation sury Land, that forms the basis of the screenplay for the riveting fi lm. www.centrum-dialogu.oswiecim.pl Here in Poland, it was published in the darkest period of the Sta- linist era: in 1951! However, since it tells the story about the start of International Youth the twentieth century, set during Meeting Center the years 1902-1907, it is distant, www.mdsm.pl as a ballad about travel and adven- tures, from the terrible reality of that time. IN COOPERATION Siberia, the Ussury Country, as WITH: well as borderlands of Russia and China. Hunters and trappers, rob- Kasztelania bers and villains, Siberian taiga, na- ture, people and animals. A great www.kasztelania.pl and true friendship! Attempts at meeting, culminating in tragedy, State Higher modernity mixed with age-old Vocational Schoolol customs, and the trapper culture. in Oświęcim A superb fi lm that is luckily recog- nized and honored as such! And its www.pwsz-oswiecim.pli i l ending, I view in a psychological and stylistic context together with Editorial address: the last scenes ofthe fi lm Amadeus „Oś – Oświęcim, Ludzie, by Miloš Forman! Historia, Kultura” Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20 32-603 Oświęcim Photo: Andrzej Winogrodzki e-mail: [email protected] The book by Władimir K. Arseniew Along the Ussury Land, that was the basis for the Kurosawa movi Dersu Uzala Andrzej Winogrodzki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Oś—Oświęcim, People, History, Culture magazine, no. 31, July 2011 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum WE ARE HERE TOGETHER embers of the International Council of Christians and Jews visited the Auschwitz Memorial for the fi rst time in the history of the organization. On July 5, the group of more than a hundred people from 27 coun- Mtries walked the Remembrance Trail on the grounds of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was marked by four symbolic stations. The visit to the Memorial was part of the three-day Council meeting, held in Cracow this year under the title Religion and Ideology: Polish Perspectives on the Future. The participants, Jews and about Auschwitz and the it possible to build relations Christians of various de- Holocaust at the Auschwitz- of trust. I see improvement nominations, walked from Birkenau State Museum and in this dialogue because Po- THE STATIONS the main gate and along the the Center for Dialogue and land is no longer associated OF THE REMEMBRANCE TRAIL camp ramp (unloading plat- Prayer, which played host to only with Auschwitz, but is IN BIRKENAU form) to the crematorium members of the Council. also seen as the place where ruins—the road along which The main ICCJ sessions were the Polish Jews lived,” said deported Jews were once led held in Cracow. The out- Krajewski. Station I – The Righteous was dedicated to the memory to death in the gas chambers. standing role of John Paul II Referring to Dialogue of Tasks of those who remained outside the camp: family and At the foot of the memorial in the Polish-Jewish dialogue for a New Century, a docu- friends, and also people indifferent to the fate of the pris- to the victims in Birkenau a was emphasized during the ment issued by the Confer- oners, and perpetrators. Above all, however, there was ence of the Polish Episco- discussion in this place of the people who risked their “We have come here today from different pate, Archbishop Stanisław lives to save others—the Righteous among the Nations of Gądecki of Poznań said that the World. There was a reading from the memoirs of milieus, united in a desire to render our there is still too little shaping Merka Szewach, a former Auschwitz prisoner who wit- respects to the victims and in awareness of the of responsible attitudes in re- nessed how an Oświęcim resident named Janek risked obligation to work for a better future in which lation to Jews in homilies and his life to help her and other people imprisoned in the we can live together as brothers and sisters.” the teaching of the catechism. camp. “We feel uneasy about the Participants of the International Council recurrence, time after time, Station II – The Persecutors, located at the fi rst guard of signs of associating Jews tower, is a reminder of those who caused the killing and of Christians and Jews meeting with all the worst things,” suffering. Father Manfred Deselaers, a German priest who has worked at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer for many years, bore extraordinary witness here: “Who are those people who lost all humanity? And why did this happen? They came from Germany. I am a German. The majority of them were baptized. I am a Catholic priest. I do not bear personal guilt, but what happened here and the fact that my people perpetrated it fi lls me with sadness. I feel the deep wound that we infl icted on others, on you and your families, the relations between us and other peoples, and I am deeply, deeply sorry. I have hope in the depths of my heart and I wish to beg you for the renewal of relations that are human, friendly, and full of trust and love.” Station III – The Prisoners of the Camp, located half- way along the ramp, was intended to serve as a reminder of all the prisoners in the camp: Jews from all over the world, Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet POWs, and many Photo: CDPF others. The memoirs of Primo Levi were quoted here, Members of the Council at the Remembrance Trail and there was a citation that the words spoken by John Paul II during his visit to the site of the camp in 1979, joint appeal was issued: “We when he said: “In this place of terrible suffering, which have come here today from “Poland has become the leader among brought death to four million people from various na- different milieus, united in a countries trying to respond to a troubled tions, Father Maximilian Kolbe won a spiritual victory desire to render our respects history, and this makes it possible to build similar to the victory of Christ Himself, giving himself to the victims and in aware- relations of trust.
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