On Behalf
of the Polish Peacemaker Community and
The
State Museum of Majdanek
we are honored to invite you to attend Majdanek
Meditations
2006.
During
World War II
there
were people who built places like Auschwitz, or Majdanek, to eliminate
other people - this horrific tragedy is a painful lesson for all of us.
It was our
dream for years to organize such an event in Lublin.
We
are finally able to make it come true. This will be our first retreat,
hopefully the first of many more to come.
Our main
aim is to transform our intellectual knowledge about Holocaust and
Genocide into personal experience, to bear witness to the place, to what
happened here once and to what is happening to us NOW.
We
will do it together with a group of people from different cultures and
religions and we will be assisted in this difficult process by
experienced spiritual and religious leaders, from the Christian, Jewish,
Buddhist and Islamic traditions.
We will
spend most of the time at the Majdanek Concentration Camp, and one day in
Bełżec Death Camp, offering our prayers, reading names from The Book of
Dead,
practicing meditation and
silent
reflection.
Our aim is to
establish
a
spiritual
Temple of Peace.
Please,
join us and help!
Andrzej B Krajewski
Polish Zen Peacemaker Community
andrzej@peacemakers.org
Jacek
Miśnakiewicz - coordination
jacek-misio@o2.pl
Urszula Chlopicka - registration, information
majdanek.retreat@gmail.com
Co-organizers:
Polish Buddhist Union
Jewish Community of Lublin
Association/ of Former Prisoners/ for Preservation of Majdanek
Academic Center in Lublin
SWIFT Konto Euro:
BIG BPL PW XXX
07
1160 2202 0000 0000 4284 2765
/we hope that the total costs of the Meditations will be not exceeding 30
Euro a day, incl. hotel, food and local transportations./
Lublin 02.06.2006