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anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Warsaw. The entire building project was completed in
October 1998. The center is primarily supported by the Polish municipality of Oświęcim and by the ARSP, which sponsors three such centers. In 2010, the Center hosted more than 17,000 overnight stays by youth groups participating in its programs.
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Auschwitz, and by December 1985 a turning point was reached. Alfred Przybylski, former prisoner #471 at the Auschwitz camp and the representative of the Union of Polish Architects, supported by the plans drawn up by German architect Helmut Morlok, contributed decisively to the realization of the
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led the project for ARSP. In a 1986 interview, Heubner explained the importance of placing the Center near
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Konstruktion und Form, Einfachheit bei der inneren Ausstattung, … Kernstück der Anlage ist ein nach allen Richtungen offener Begegnungshof … wo sich jeder frei und unbeobachtet bewegen und aufhalten kann in der man Gemeinschaft aber auch Geborgenheit sowie Zeit und Platz für sich
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The Center sponsors activities of several types, including workshops to bring together groups of Polish and German students, seminars and development programs for adults and teachers, and exhibitions for general visitors. Groups using the Center typically stay for four or five days. In addition to
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Buchholz has described the architecture as follows: "Modesty in construction and form, simplicity in the interior furnishings, ... the center of the campus is a meeting place that is open in all directions ... where all can move or loiter freely and unobserved, and in which one can find
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Germans, through dialogue and encounter between people of different origins", and is particularly engaged with Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews. In 2010, the Center hosted more than 17,000 overnight stays by youth groups participating in its
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Auschwitz as a place of memorial does not offer answers; it merely shocks people into asking questions — and especially the subversive questions. Perhaps this is its true role. But it can also (should also) be seen as a place of healing, through dialogue ... Over the last nineteen years, three
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After obtaining contributions of 4.6 million
Deutschmarks ($ 2.1 million), sufficient for 2/3 of the construction costs, ground was finally broken in May 1986. The handoff of the initial buildings to the foundation that operates it was celebrated on 7 December 1986, which was the sixteenth
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independent educational centers have in fact been set up in the vicinity of the museum: first (in the 1980s) a German-Polish youth center, then a
Catholic center, and most recently (in 2000) a
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visits to the remains of the concentration camps Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, groups can plan excursions in the area, especially to the city of
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278:. The 1913 synagogue was restored and re-opened in 2000; it serves the small local community as well as visitors. The synagogue is part of the Auschwitz Jewish Center (
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programs. Many young Germans and Austrians have held year-long voluntary positions at the Center that satisfy their
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810:"Internationale Jugendbegegnunstätte in Oświęcim/Auschwitz"
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