embassy Events 2007 

Embassy Participates in Holocaust Remembrance Day Activities in Tykocin

19 April 2007 

American Jewish students dance in Tykocin's 500 year-old synagogue (more photos)

On April 17, U.S. Embassy Warsaw Political Assistant Katarzyna Dragan and Political Officer Daniel Gedacht journeyed to Tykocin, Poland to speak to American and Polish students commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Over 100 American high school students from the southeastern United States traveled to Poland to take part in the March of the Living at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, then visited Tykocin to meet with their peers from the local middle and high school.  After a welcoming ceremony by the mayor of Tykocin and singing and dancing by the school's art department, the Polish and American teenagers walked together from the school to Tykocin's Jewish cemetery, where Poland Jewish Cemetery Reconstruction Project Manager Andrzej Omasta outlined plans for reconstruction of the cemetery.  The over 200 students then spent an hour cleaning and maintaining the cemetery grounds.