On October 28-31, at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer, a Polish-Russian seminar took place: Different memories of World War II—a shared responsibility for the future. The participants were the State Higher Vocational School from Oswiecim and the State Pedagogical University in Voronezh.

Its goal was to present the various dimensions of the memory of Auschwitz. A series of lectures was initiated by Fr. Dr. Manfred Deselaers of the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim, who presented the history of Auschwitz from the Jewish and German perspective. During the following days a lecture entitled Polish memory of WWII was presented by Zbigniew Klima, while the Russian perspective was presented by Natalia Timofeyev. On the last day the perspective of the churches (Church during World War II and theological treatment of the problem) was presented: the Orthodox, by the deputy director of the Orthodox school in Voronezh, Sergei Ulanov, and the Catholic, by Łukasz Kamykowski, director of the Institute for Ecumenism and Dialogue in Cracow.