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The educational project for high school students has been expanded to include opportunities of personal contact between Polish and Israeli youth.  

Each year thousands of Israeli high school students come to Poland to learn about the land from where many of their forefathers had come. It is part of the 'Children of Israel' educational project. The trip is preceded by a one year course on the history of the Holocaust.

Until recently, their stay in Poland consisted mostly of visits to museums and places of remembrance connected with the Jewish wartime tragedy, such as the sites of Nazi German death camps in Auschwitz or Majdanek.

Lately, this program has been expanded to include opportunities of meeting Polish youth. Thanks to this they are experiencing Poland from a different angle, at ordinary school level. History is an important element of every nation's indentity, but equally important is making the best of our present to create foundations for a better future, argue the organizers.

Click on the audio icon to listen to the report by Sławek Szefs.