250 young people from 42 countries have set on an extraordinary journey on board the Solidarity Express across Poland and Polish history.

Danuta Isler reports

The Solidarity Express is a long term educational project which was launched by the European Solidarity Centre in December 2008 at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of awarding Lech Walesa the Nobel Peace Prize. Marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, this year it is taking its participants to the historic salt mine of Wieliczka, the former Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, Warsaw and Gdansk, where the first shots of the war were fired and Solidarity was born.

The participants include students of Cambridge, Oxford and Georgetown Universities in Britain and the United States,  NGO activists from Amnesty International and the Montenegro Committee of the Helsinki Foundation, and people from Armenia, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova. Poland has a 30-strong group as well.

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