Following Pope Francis’ visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau on July 29, 2016
in the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim for participants in the Christian-Jewish Dialogue a meal was organized and an exchange on the topic


“The role and importance of Auschwitz
and the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim
for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue”

Guests:
Bishops:
Cardinal Kurt Koch, Vatican
Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Old Primate, Gniezno
Bishop Mieczysław Cisło, Chairman of the Polish Episcopal Committee for the Dialogue with Judaism, Lublin
Rabbis:
Rabbi Michel Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, Warszawa
Rabbi David Rosen, Jerusalem
Rabbi Abraham Skórka, Buenos Aires
Rabbi Edgar Gluck, Chief Rabbi of Galicia, New York
Rabbi Avi Baumol, Krakow
Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish Bishops’ Conference:
Ks. prof. dr hab. Łukasz Kamykowski, director of the Inter-Faculty Institute of Ecumenism and Dialogue of the John Paul II University in Krakow
Prof. dr hab. Sławomir Jacek Żurek, member of the Commission for School and Academic Education of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Ryszard Montusiewicz, former correspondent for Radio Vatican and Radio Poland in Israel
Fr. Prof. Alfred Wierzbicki 
Fr. Marek Szymański
Fr. Ks. Grzegorz Michalczyk
Fr. dr Wiesław Dawidowski OSA
Red. Barbara Sułek-Kowalska
Polish Ecumenical Council:
Mitrat Sergiusz Dziewiatowski, pastor of the orthodox parish “Saints Wiera, Nadziea, Luba and Imre mother Zofia” in Sosnowiec.
Dr. Mikołaj Dziewiatowski, vicar in the same parish
Polish Council of Christians and Jews:
Bogdan Białek, Kielce
Club of Christians and Jews “Covenant” (“Przymierze”), Krakow
Piotr Nawrocki, chairman
Jewish Community Centre, Krakow
Jonathan Ornstein, director 
Taube Center, Warsaw
Helise E. Liberman, director