The first workshops of the new semester of the School of Dialogue program begun in mid-September. Forum educators visited students in participant schools to conduct the first of four workshops. We are incredibly happy to once more see our students in class! Aware of the unstable health situation, the educators and the students are prepared to move online if there is need for that.
Twenty schools joined the program this semester, and those listed below already had their first workshops:
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska School Complex in Rusiec
• Piotr Skarga High School in Szamotuły
• Józef Bliziński Elementary School in Bóbrka
• Polish Noble Laureates Elementary School in Otwock
• Janusz Kusociński High School no 7 and Emil Waryński High School no 8 in Bydgoszcz
• Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz Elementary School no 2 in Płońsk
• May 3rd Elementary School in Kalisz
• Wacław Nałkowski High School no 1 in Wołomin
• Zygmunt Puławski Vocational Education Center in Świdnik.
The workshops will continue till the end of November, and the commemoration project created by the students should be ready by December 10, 2021. Each group of students will have to decide if they want to prepare an online walking tour of the Jewish sites of their town or organize one offline with an audience of their choosing.
The School of Dialogue workshops in the fall semester are organized within two grant projects:
• 12 schools from towns below 30 thousand residents are financed thanks to the Active Citizens Fund – National financed by the Norwegian and EEA funds;
• 8 remaining schools are financed thanks to the generosity of Friends of the Forum, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and individual and institutional donors from Poland and abroad
