Save the Memory

Posted by Niamh Hunt

Over the past two months, a group of young participants, supported by trainers from STOP-KLATKA, met with elderly people who survived the Second World War and with their families.

The young people were driven by many questions:

How do we keep hope for a better future? When did you truly feel free? How did the events of the war shape the rest of your life? What stories were passed down to you by your loved ones?

These and many other questions guided the conversations between the youth and the witnesses of the war. In listening to these personal accounts, the young people searched for the “living questions” relevant to their own world today. They reflected on which situations from the past can still be found in contemporary life.

Where do we encounter oppression in our everyday reality? And what responsibility do we carry when we witness such situations?

Today, Tomorrow, The Day After Tomorrow

Posted by Maite

During the last two months, a group of young people with the facilitation of trainers from STOP-KLATKA met elderly people, survivors from the Second World War, and their relatives. In the stories, youngsters searched for their “living questions”. What are the situations in the past that can happen nowadays as well? Where do we see oppression in our life? What is our responsibility in those situations?

Design by Karolina Sienkowska.

Three miracles

Posted by Danielle

In this video, we are introduced to Mr. Eugeniusz, who tells his story as a witness of World War II and an inmate in an extermination camp. He was born in 1928 and this video was made when he was 93 (a year before his death). He held on, although the circumstances were dramatic.

The video can be viewed here.

https://youtu.be/2j4_kHvVS2I?si=B0pGFUb7JVzm7ceC

The unforgettable story

Posted by Danielle

We would like to invite you to the performance of a group acting within the Theatre of Remembrance project – a series of etudes based on conversations between young people involved in the project and senior citizens – witnesses of the Second World War.

The stories of Mrs. Ela, Mrs. Basia, Mr. Bolesław and Mr. Eugeniusz – personal, moving, unusual, sometimes surprising – were an inspiration and starting point for the group to reflect and find analogies between the past and present times. What kind of world do we want to live in and what kind we don’t want to live in? What problems do young people think are important in today’s world? What do we have to face up to so that what the witnesses of history experienced never happens?

This will be a showing of the movie of last years performance that will be accessable online.