Friday, April 16, 2021 at 13.00 was held the fourth international event of the project “Breaching the walls. We do need education!” by the History Meeting House in Warsaw entitled:

WHY DOES THE BERLIN WALL SPEAK TO US STRONGER THAN THE ROUND TABLE AND 4 JUNE ELECTIONS? WHAT DO THE 1989 CHANGES MEAN FOR THE YOUNG EUROPEANS? IS THE CHANGE PROCESS INITIATED IN 1989 STILL ON? ARE THE YOUNG EUROPEANS AWARE OF ITS WEIGHT?

The speakers were:

Gabriela Lesser
Historian and political scientist, graduate of the School of Journalism in Cologne. In the years 1985-86 she studied at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and in the years 1989-1995 she was assistant at the Institute of Eastern European History at the University of Cologne. Since 1995 she has been a correspondent and political commentator for German-language newspapers in Europe, based in Warsaw. Today she is a member of GFPS – Gemeinschaft für studentischen Austausch in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Student Exchange Community in Central and Eastern Europe) in Freiburg im Breisgau and a member of BORUSSIA – Cultural Community Association in Olsztyn.

Jacek Michałowski
Psychologist and psychotherapist by training. Opposition activist during the Polish People’s Republic. Head of the Office of Studies and Analysis at the Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland between 1989 and 1998. In the years 2010-2015 he was head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. In 2015 he became the Chairman of the Board of the Professor Roman Czernecki Foundation.