In a school complex in Pustelnik near Stanisławów, Zbigniew Niziński took part in the celebration of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The students had prepared and presented the project on the extermination of Jews in Poland and the attitudes of people during the war. Afterwards, Zbigniew Niziński acquainted the participants with the history of the places of the murders of Jews located and commemorated by the Lasting Memory Foundation. The students were also told about the experiences of the Jews who had survived the Holocaust as well as the Poles who had been the witnesses to the extermination.

At the burial place of about 180 Jews – the prisoners of a former German labor camp in Wolska Dąbrowa – the Lasting Memory Foundation set up a memorial stone. The unveiling ceremony was attended by the youth from local schools and from Israel, local authorities, clergy and residents of Wolska Dąbrowa and the area.

In Kaplonosy Kolonia, the Lasting Memory Foundation located and commemorated a burial place of approximately 70 Jews – men, women and children – murdered in 1943. Next to the grave we set up a memorial stone where the students from local schools, local authorities, clergy and residents gathered. The participants paid tribute to the dead with songs, poems and prayers.

A meeting with the youth from the town of Giwatajim in Israel took place in Warsaw. Zbigniew Niziński delivered a presentation regarding the Foundation’s actions for commemorating the people and places from the times of the Holocaust. The participants got acquainted with the stories of Poles and Jews at the time of the war as well as the actions of searching for the graves of the war victims and marking them with memorial stones.