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Young people from the Lower Silesia Special School and Education Centre No. 12 for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired in Wrocław visited the Memorial under an internship project implemented jointly with the Voluntary Service Office of the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
Not only did they receive the opportunity to work with conservators of the Museum, but also visited the sites of the former camp, and, as volunteers, helped with the 78th anniversary commemoration of the first deportation of Poles to the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
"We look at this project and our presence from a historical perspective because, in Nazi Germany, the deaf and people with other disorders were sterilised and sentenced to death. Our youth, in spite of the difficult start in life, are precious and we want to show the world that we can, too. Here, we can help save the artefacts and commemorate those who died here. In our centre, we have a group of carpenters and restorers. Young people can work on high-quality equipment in the Museum’s woodwork shop," said Piotr Kondratowicz, the group’s educator.
Mr Kondratowicz underlined that the visit to the Museum was a compelling emotional experience for the young people.