On the 7th of February, about fifteen volunteers came for a lecture in the Jewish Community Center organised between the centre and Internationaler Bund Polska. They got the chance to meet rabbi Avi Baumol who told them about the history of the Jewish community and also about his own story.

Firstly, he talked about himself and his own belonging to Jewish community. Born from polish parents in the USA, he came to Poland to teach Judaism to people. In fact, many people, Jewish or not, want to know about this culture, this belief, according to him. Nowadays, and after everything that happened in the Jewish community in the past, there are still many Jewish people in the world. Even though they are not so visible, and some of them, according to the rabbi, don’t tell their children they are Jewish, we assist to a « reborn » of the belief and the proudness to be Jewish.

Then, came the time where volunteers could ask questions and exchange thoughts with the rabbi. Here, a good exchange between them happened. Between his own past and the Jewish community’s one, volunteers learned more about the Jewish community. Their past in history, also during the war, their believes, how they practice being a jew.

And it was more interesting in the fact that coming from different countries, different religions, the curiosity and interest is still the same. This afternoon was about sharing knowledge and stories about the Jewish community to those people, the volunteers, who now will be able to share it in return.

Text by Sarah, a volunteer from France and participant of the project “Dive into heritage”

The project “Dive into heritage” is organised within the framework of the European Solidarity Corps and financed by European Commission.