| 2019 |
Rusiec
Marie Curie Primary School
Marie Curie Primary School
| 2019 |
The elementary school in Rusiec is attended by children from many surrounding villages. A larger Jewish community used to inhabit Nadarzyn, located some 3 km away from the town, yet no material traces of its presence remain. What had once been a Jewish neighborhood has now been considerably redeveloped, while the synagogue building has been torn down. In Kajetany a little farther away, an old Jewish cemetery still exists, but with just a few matzevot still standing. School of Dialogue participants thus opted to prepare an in-school presentation for the youngest students at their school. They discussed history of Nadarzyn’s Jews in the context of Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II, dividing the talk into segments devoted to kashrut and Jewish cooking, Jewish education, culture, sport, everyday life, characteristics of a synagogue and basic principles of Judaism.
They mentioned the number of Jewish residents once inhabiting Nadarzyn and portrayed the most famous one – Ludwik Maurycy Hirszfeld. The group planned a field trip to Nadarzyn in the spring to show others the sites discussed in their presentation.
In their work, students were supported by their teachers, including one School of Dialogue graduate who had participated in the program ten years earlier as a secondary-school student in Żyrardów.
School: Marie Curie Primary School
Students: 7th year
Teacher: Daniel Siemiński
Educators: Karolina Ufa, Zofia Waślicka-Żmijewska
Project cofinanced thanks to the generosity of Friends of the Forum, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and individual donors and institutions from Poland and abroad supporting Forum for Dialogue.
In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting the School of Dialogue educational program. Through recovering the assets of the victims of the Holocaust, the Claims Conference enables organizations around the world to provide education about the Shoah and to preserve the memory of those who perished.
