Krotochwile Association—Paweł Bajerlein and Patryk Antoniak with associates and volunteers — have been actively engaged in the preservation of the local Jewish heritage in Wielkopolska. The Association popularises the knowledge on Jewish history and culture by running educational projects addressed to both the youth and adults. In 2020, they launched and completed stage one of works on the inventory of the Jewish cemetery in Koźmin Wielkopolski. The goal of our activities is to make the local community aware of what Koźmin was like in the past. Because Koźmin was a Polish-German-Jewish town. We want the local community to know of this rich heritage, to realize that that all these cultures had a great positive influence on how the town developed. Following a screening of the film titled Polin. Shreds of Memory by Jolanta Dylewska a large group of people debated together: "See, at my family home, at my grandma’s, the tradition was exactly the same, people behaved in exact same way". This is how culture helps us demonstrate all these various aspects. People discover that, and at that very moment they realize that their personal view not only on Jews but on multicultural Poland in general is altogether different. I think our greatest success is that the local communities of Jarocin, Koźmin Wielkopolski, Krotoszyn and other towns where we carry out our projects, join in, want to be a part of this. I am talking about schools, but I am also talking about seniors. The truth is that without a cooperation with local communities we wouldn’t be able to achieve much. What I find most important is when the memory, the eagerness to act, to look after a specific site, for example the Jewish cemetery in Koźmin, is the initiative of local residents, and they are actively involved in it. People approach us and our actions with a certain dose of open mind. There are times when we feel that something is not possible to realise that we will surely fail to convince the local authorities to cooperate, that we will face many obstacles on our way. It turns out, however, that many things are in fact possible thanks to people’s openness, to open heads full of new ideas, for these are not only our ideas, but also of the people with whom we cooperate in Wielkopolska. I think we need to preserve the memory, for as we strive to build our future, when we think about the future, we need to remember about the past; We need to remember about the positive things that happened in the past, but also about the negative ones. Also about the things that we are not really happy to talk about, we try to erase them from our memory. However, without an open talk about the past, without remembering about the diversity, the complexity of our history, we are not able really to look ahead, to look into the future. My greatest dream is to build a place in Wielkopolska, here preferably, somewhere in the immediate vicinity, a centre for cultural education. This centre would embrace the entire multicultural past of this region of Poland by organizing classes for young people, workshops, meetings, all sorts of events and exchanges. I do hope that my dream will come true, and we will manage to create such a place one day.