| 2018 |
Morąg
9th Dresden Artillery Brigade Vocational and High School Complex
9th Dresden Artillery Brigade Vocational and High School Complex
| 2018 |
Morąg’s Jewish population had never been particularly numerous, topping at 120, and comprising of assimilated Jews. Most of the community left town after the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms. Those who remained would later be murdered in ghettos and extermination camps. Although the synagogue was demolished, the local Jewish cemetery remains intact. Thus, the latter was one of the stops of the Jewish walking tour organized for their peers on November 13, 2018 by students from a class with police-military focus at the local Vocational and High School Complex. The tour began with an official assembly, during which School of Dialogue participants offered an overview of the history of Polish Jews and their contribution to Poland’s culture and development.
Next, tour participants hit the streets to participate in a location-based game that ended with a quiz recapitulating newly gained information through the Kahoot app. Additionally, project participants organized clean-up works at the local Jewish cemetery and documented their project through a film from the walking tour and a photo album.
School: 9th Dresden Artillery Brigade Vocational and High School Complex
Students: High School 2nd year
Teacher: Agnieszka Wymentowska-Derezińska
Educators: Basia Krywoszejew, Karolina Ufa
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.
