Renata Pelka, senior assistant of the Foreign Language Center of the Silesian University of Technology, was awarded by the German ambassador to Poland for her commitment to building Polish-German friendship and understanding.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Willy Brandt’s visit to Poland and his tribute in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, German and Polish citizens were honored for their work to build Polish-German relations. The event became history due to a gesture made by the then German Chancellor, who knelt on the steps of the Monument in Warsaw, paying tribute to the victims of German crimes. This situation became a symbol of recognition of German guilt and a sign of reconciliation between Poles and Germans.
The distinguished persons received a set of commemorative coins issued to commemorate the symbolic gesture of the kneeling German chancellor – “50 Jahre Kniefall von Warschau”.
