The Israeli textbooks of history are to be analysed as well since honest information about Poland is also necessary to normalise the Polish-Jewish relations. Poland has been encouraged to participate in the international Task Force for Holocaust Education. An organiser of this project, British parliamentarian, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, paid a visit to Poland and invited representatives of the Premier's Chancellery and of the Ministry of Education to take a part in a London conference in this connection. Although the subject of Holocaust is by no means new to Poland's educational institutions, there has indeed been a shortage of reliable programme materials for students. Its courses have aroused major interest, with the number of applications for attendance higher than the actual number of places.
Similar conferences are to be held in the future.
However, Poland is one of the few European countries which does not have a university centre dealing with the problems of Holocaust, and its absence makes life difficult indeed for e.g. the Jewish Historical Institute, which needs experts to conduct research into its own collection. Apart from the educational projects which are gradually included in the school curricula, the exchange of youth which has been growing year by year especially between Poland and Israel plays an important role in the Polish-Jewish dialogue. Also, many Polish high school students have taken part in an international programme for education against racism and anti-Semitism. Special workshops organised within the framework of this programme took place recently in Sweden and Poland. Poland has recently seen a major increase in the interest in Jewish culture.