More Life from Oswiecim Festival

I was very glad to have gone to Oswiecim for the ” title=”International Youth Meeting Center” target=”_blank”>International Youth Meeting Center, next to the stadium.

I stayed at the Center—run by a German foundation, it hosts groups on study tours to Auschwitiz and organizes programs on tolerance and dialogue. (When I went in for breakfast, two tables occupied by burly young men were designated “Hamburg Polizei.) The Center has been around since 1986, and I wrote about it in my 1994 book