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The Excluded. From Nazism to Present-Day Discrimination
Marzena Wolschlager There were 4 teachers involved in the project, one class of students (30 people) co-ordinated the event and the whole school community (about 450 people) underwent the project actions. Initially the 30 students discussed about minorities in their town, especially Jewish and German, about human rights and about discrimination, isolation and exclusion. Then […continue]
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Danuta Kopińska The students were acquainted with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which prompted them to reflect on human rights violations in the past and in the present. As a result, they prepared informative posters about examples of human rights violations in the world today and exhibited them in the school hall. The […continue]
Read MoreRemember to Know and Live Well
Mariusz Madej The project’s main activity was a study visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kazimierz, Krakow’s historic Jewish quarter. The teacher and the students visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, they got to know the history of its creation and functioning. Then they learned about the Jewish heritage and culture in Krakow’s Kazimierz. They learned about the […continue]
Read MorePolish-Jewish History without Barriers
Katarzyna Kotula-Domagała The project made an interesting connection between Holocaust education, human rights education and inclusion of people who are experiencing discrimination. The project involved a group of people with hearing loss, who often face barriers in cultural institutions which are not adapted to offer them a suitable cultural experience. In this project, the participants […continue]
Read MoreDays of Jewish Culture
Anna Ryłek Various workshops were organized on the Days of Jewish Culture, for four high school classes and two primary school classes from Lodz. Altogether there were 170 students, 5 trainers and 6 teachers. The workshops were focused on the following themes: Jewish cookery workshop – preparing Jewish dishes and a lecture on Jewish […continue]
Read MoreEducation – The Knowledge of the Past and the Lesson for the Future
Anna Ciach The project brought together, on an e-twinning platform, students from Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, who interacted in three languages – English, French and German. The students analyzed teenagers’ dairies from WWII and started a dialogue about the problems contemporary world faces in relation to the past. They recorded fragments from the book in […continue]
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