10 Oct 24 Younion 25 has a date!
The youth encounter will of course also take place in 2025. It is still too early to reveal details, but the date can already be noted!...
The youth encounter will of course also take place in 2025. It is still too early to reveal details, but the date can already be noted!...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A youth encounter for young people from Germany, Poland, Italy and Ukraine. Under the motto "Diversity in Remembrance" the 2024 edition took place in Görlitz and Zgorzelec between 20 July and 3 August. YOUNION (former WORCATION) is an international youth...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text](Not) Remembrance Warsaw Uprising On the first of August, ceremonies to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising have been held for many years at the AK (Home Army) monument in front of St Boniface Church. This was...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]YOUNION: Creative and international work at a historical site YOUNION is creative and international cooperation and historical-political education at the German-Polish memorial site Stalag VIII A. Every summer, young people come together in the European city of Görlitz-Zgorzelec to experience...
Younion is an international youth exchange for young people from Europe where they live and work together for two weeks. The group takes part in different workshops during the day. The workshops revolve around the Second World War and around prisoners of war imprisoned in...
WORCATION is no more! Now it’s YOUNION! We have changed the name of our summer YOUth Exchange. We’re happy to share the new name with YOU now. YOUNION!...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet on the End of Time" was performed on the 83rd anniversary of its premiere in the Stalag VIII A Görlitz prisoner of war camp, now the Stalag VIII A memorial. The concert was originally intended...
The Messiaen Tage festival planned for January 13-15, 2024 has been canceled due to a funding issue. The performance of the "Quartet on the End of Times" by O. Messiaen on 15.01.2024 at 7 p.m. in the European Center for Remembrance, Education and Culture in Zgorzelec...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 5 December 2023, pupils from the state music schools in Jelenia Góra traditionally performed at the Silesian Christmas Market in Görlitz. The young musicians from the "Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I stopnia im. J. Garści" and the "Państwowa...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]My name is Johannes Bent. I originally come from Detmold in Westphalia and only recently moved to Görlitz to work at Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen e.V.. Before that, I studied cultural studies in another German-Polish twin city, Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice....
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Currently, 465 students attend our school, including temporarily displaced children from the occupied territories of Ukraine, children with mental health problems and with special educational needs. Since February 2022, war has been dominating our everyday life! Most of our...