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Introductory Seminar
On 18th November 2013 a preparatory seminar for students was organized. The seminar gathered a lot of interest which was indicated by the number of (115) participants. These were students of High School no. 7 in Krakow (1st, 2nd and 3rd grade), students of the Państowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa in Oświęcim (State Higher Vocational School) and students of the Jagiellonian University.
The introductory seminar took place in the European Studies Institute at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. It began at 9:30 when dr Kinga Gajda (a member of the managing team) presented the guidelines of the project and introduced the Polish-German Youth Cooperation. It was followed by seminars led by the PhD candidates from the Center of the Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University.
The first seminar was concerned with a totalitarian system explained by the case of the 3rd Reich. M.A. Katarzyna du Vall introduced a process in which a totalitarian state is created and rules that it was based upon. Next seminar was held by M.A. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz. In the beginning, she identified the term of memory and then conducted a workshop which dealt with the questions of theories dedicated to collective memory and architectural objects connected with the memory of the II World War. The last seminar was held by M.A. Elisabeth Büttner. This seminar explored the subject of the concentration camps and their meaning in the totalitarian states using the case study of Auschwitz and the fate of the children who were in the camp. The seminar served also as an introduction before the meeting with a guest – Ms. Lidia Skibicka-Maksymowicz from Krakow, who as a little girl survived a year in the German Nazi concentration camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The scenarios of classes were published electronically thanks to the funds received from the Polish-German Youth Cooperation.
Photo: Kinga Anna Gajda
Additional documents:
Press interview with Ms. Lidia Skibicka-Maksymowicz:
'A former prisoner of the Auschwitz camp Lidia Skibicka-Maksymowicz: wounds will never heal'