| 2019 |
Słupca
Marshall Józef Piłsudski High School
Marshall Józef Piłsudski High School
| 2019 |
The class of Słupca’s high school students with extended curriculum in Math and Physics had been well prepared to participate in the School of Dialogue program. A week before the first workshop, students met with a local Leader of Dialogue from Zagórów and watched the film Who Will Write Our History. While preparing their Jewish walking tour, they visited Słupca’s Regional Museum and – with permission of the institution’s director – were able to see letters young Jewish girl Danka Rozental had written to her Christian friend Grażyna Harmacińska from the ghetto and later from the camp. They also watched the film Przyjaciółki [Friends] about the two girls. During their Jewish Słupca walking tour, prepared for freshmen and sophomores from their school, students included a stop by a bench commemorating the two girls and showed Jewish headstones from the local cemetery; as the latter had been destroyed during World War II, the matzevot are included in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The group visited the site of the cemetery, now an enforested area by a lake.
Tour organizers also showed heritage sites connected to Słupca’s Jews: the synagogue, which has been turned into a residential building and a house on the main square with a fragment of an old shop sign for a Jewish barber. Tour participants were presented with tasks and homemade posters related to Jewish customs, holidays and dishes. Photos taken during the tour’s documentation were presented at a school exhibition.
School: Marshall Józef Piłsudski High School
Students: 1st year
Teacher: Renata Bartczak
Educators: Kasia Czubińska, Antek Wołowski
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.
