Our foundation supports initiatives by High Schools
Financial support
As part of our ongoing high school program titled “In the Minority—Acceptance, Equality, Integration,” which aims to raise awareness about exclusion and anti-Semitism, we have provided schools in Győr and the surrounding area with financial support for their own programs related to this topic.
As part of this initiative, in recent months we supported a class from the Kazinczy Ferenc High School by purchasing admission tickets for their visit to the Auschwitz Memorial. We also contributed to a joint visit by students from the Miklós Bercsényi Technical School of Transportation and Sports, the Géza Pattantyús-Ábrahám Technical School (PÁGISZ), and the Miklós Révai High School to the former Mauthausen concentration camp.
In addition, we purchased admission tickets for numerous school classes to visit the Exhibition of Jewish Excellence at the Győr Synagogue and the local history exhibitions at the Menház (former home of poor and elderly Jews).
Exemplary partnership – a visit to Mauthausen
The exemplary cooperation among the three schools mentioned above is particularly noteworthy in the organization of their joint trip to Mauthausen in September 2026, during which Judit Kozalkné Fejes, a teacher at Bercsényi, handled the coordination tasks in collaboration with teachers Artúr Ladich (Révai) and Melinda Kazóné Kardos (PÁGISZ).
In accordance with the terms of the project call for proposals, the requested and awarded grant amounted to 200,000 HUF per school—for a total of 600,000 HUF—which was used to partially cover the cost of the buses needed to organize the study trip. Nearly 80 students from the three institutions participated in the study trip.
Although it was not part of the foundation’s grant program, the Bercsényi Miklós Technical School also organized a trip to Auschwitz and Kraków for more than 40 students in early October. During the three-day program, they explored Kraków’s historical and Jewish sites. They visited Kazimierz, the Old Synagogue, the Remuh Synagogue, and the cemetery; they walked through the site of the former ghetto; they saw Heroes of the Ghetto Square and the ghetto wall; and they also visited the Schindler factory. The trip concluded with visits to Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II–Birkenau.
“These were deeply moving and, at the same time, very important visits. The two study trips brought us closer to the same goal in different ways: to ensure that students not only learn historical facts but also understand the significance of remembrance through their visits to the original sites and personal stories,” said Judit Kozalkné Fejes, a teacher at Bercsényi.
Our foundation greatly appreciates the students’ and their teachers’ awareness of this issue and their participation, and thanks the teachers involved for their indispensable work.
Edited and translated by Krausz, P.