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The Parafiada Association and the Mieroszewski Centre invited us to participate in Keys of Remembrance - a conference entitled Education in the Service of Remembering the Victims of the Katyn Massacre. The meeting took place at the Faculty of History of Warsaw University on 22 April in Warsaw. The Museum was represented by Dr. Renata Kobylarz-Buła.

Renata Kobylarz-Buła, PhD, alongside Ewa Kowalska, PhD, Małgorzata Jędruch-Włodarczyk, MA , Sławomir Frątczak, MA , Piotr Popławski, PhD, and Maciej Wyrwa, PhD, participated in the expert panel PRO MEMORIA - challenges of modern education. The panellists - representatives of institutions dealing with Katyń issues, confronted their experiences related to the dissemination of the history of the Katyń Massacre.

The programme of the conference also included students - the winners of historical competitions organised by the Parafiada Association, who in the panel The Mills of Time - Stories of Katyn Heroes through the Eyes of the Young presented various Katyń contexts and portraits of people murdered by the NKVD. The last panel entitled Memory, Far and Near - education is within us, meanwhile, was dominated by the accounts of post-witnesses who had to face the family trauma of Katyn for years. The event Keys of Remembrance was further enriched by the screening of the film Who does not know his father's face directed by Jacek Kubiak (with an introduction by Wojciech Bogajewski) and a showcase history class from the Katyń - Pro Memoria series given by Małgorzata Paderewska - a teacher awarded in the nationwide competition for the best class plans devoted to the Katyn Massacre.