Since four years we are building a tradition of such commemorations. This year some forty people gathered in the Helsinki Foundation’s conference room in order to reflect on the actuality of Genocide. A young lawyer from Gdańsk, dr Karolina Wierczyńska presented her insights on this subject, related to her recent doctorate. We also recalled an earlier talk given by Konstanty Gebert on his journey and findings in Rwanda.
At the occasion of the commemoration evening those present offered mourning pebbles to be put in Jedwabne on the grave of the Jewish victims.
A group of Viridarium participants and friends was already on the way to Bosnia in order to march over 100 km from Nezuk to Srebrenica as an act of mourning, homage and penitence for the genocide committed there in spite of European guarantees of safety. The group from Poland marched together with over 4 000 people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Srebrenica survivors. The group was present at
joint funeral for 534 Bosniaks, identified victims killed in the genocide on July 11th 1995.
Jolanta Steciuk, Halina Bortnowska
