| 2019 |
Świdnik
High School Complex No. 1
High School Complex No. 1
| 2019 |
Świdnik is a town with a short history and without any Jewish past. However, exactly the opposite is true about the nearby town of Piaski, which became the main focus of the School of Dialogue project carried out by a group of high schoolers from Świdnik. The first Jews settled in Piaski in the 16th century and surviving traces of the town’s Jewish presence include a partially preserved new cemetery (established at the beginning of the 20th century).
The project participants designed a tour of Piaski in the form of a city game. Specific tasks awaited the game participants at five stops of the tour, each of them aimed at testing their knowledge of Jewish history and culture. The tour and city game were attended by 45 people, mostly students and teachers from schools in Piaski and Świdnik, as well as their headmasters and one special guest from Paris: Ewa Tartakowsky, PhD.
Apart from the city game, the students carried out several other activities as part of the project: they organized two lectures by Dr. Tartakowsky, on Judaism and antisemitism in France (for the students of the technical high school in Piaski and of a high school in Świdnica); recorded an interview with Marianna Krasnodębska and Maksymilian Jarosz, the Righteous among the Nations from Piaski; wrote two articles for the local press; visited the memorial site in Majdanek; and took part in workshops at the NN Theatre. They also filed a petition with the mayor of Piaski to commemorate the Piaski ghetto.
School: High School Complex No. 1
Students: 1st year
Teacher: Katarzyna Mądrachowska
Educators: Agnieszka Gwiazdowicz, Magdalena Ogieniewska-Małecka
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.
