| 2018 |
Grudziądz
King Jan III Sobieski High School No. 2
King Jan III Sobieski High School No. 2
| 2018 |
Grudziądz is a town with a rich pre-war Jewish history, including a beautiful building serving now as a Registry Office, which was a Jewish orphanage run by the K. Lachmann Foundation. Visiting this site was a part of a walking tour of Jewish sites organized on June 9, 2018 by the students of the King Jan III Sobieski High School no. 2 in Grudziądz as part of their School of Dialogue project. Other points of interest during the walk included the “Herzfeld Victorius” foundry and enamel plant, the site where a synagogue used to be, a former colonial shop, the market square, the site of the former “Sommerfeld” furniture and piano factory, and Jewish tenement houses along the town streets.
During the walk, the students read Bolesław Leśmian’s poems and handed out recipes for Jewish dishes to participants. Moreover, prior to the event, the students conducted a street survey among local residents to check their knowledge about the Jewish community of Grudziądz. They also painted antisemitic inscriptions and symbols on houses in the city center. Furthermore, on June 17, 2018, with the help of private sponsors and local authorities, the project participants successfully commemorated the town’s Jewish community with an information plaque mounted on the wall of the Registry Office.
School: King Jan III Sobieski High School No. 2
Honorable mention: Honorable mention at the 2018 School of Dialogue Gala in the “Impact on local community” category
Students: 1st and 2nd year
Teacher: Anna Goszka
Educators: Karolina Ufa, Karolina Jastrzębska-Mitzner
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.
