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"Distinguished for Tolerance" Award, November 16, 2011
Warsaw, Poland
On the 16th November at the Jewish Theater in Warsaw “Distinguished for Tolerance” medal was awarded by the Tolerance Ecumenical Foundation were given. This year these valuable awards were given to: prof. Danuta Hübner, Archbishop Abel, Fr. Adam Boniecki, prof. Jerzy Jedlicki, prof. Ronald Hillfrom Ireland, Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak, the European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor, and journalist Ewa Ewart.
The broad spectrum of awarded personages, coming from different backgrounds showed a multidimensional concept of tolerance in today's world.
Many of the winners emphasized that the ceremony took place at a particular moment for Poland and for Europe, when nationalist and xenophobic sentiments are rising on our continent.
Professor Danuta Hübner said, that "tolerance is not only an act that we could expect from good and cultural Europeans. It is also not a result of one’s generosity but a political act, a simply conscious-made choice for an openness, solidarity and participation of Europe."We need an active tolerance. It means a commitment to more intense efforts, more work and more heightened sensitivity in order to see the positive potential of tolerance and, as soon as possible, to capture everything that might threaten it. We must all be vigilant not to lose that sensbility.
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