Training for teachers
We would like to invite teachers from high schools and secondary schools to participate in a one-day training devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations. It will take place on October 22nd, 2010 from 10:30 am to 4 pm at the temporary seat of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (13 Mazowiecka Street). The training will be conducted by experienced trainers from the Educational Center of the MHPJ. The training is organized as part of the project “Righteous in Polish Schools”, conducted by the program “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Its main goal is to prepare educators to preserve the memory of the Polish Righteous, who would organize in their schools “The Day of the Righteous”, and to present to the teachers the subject of the Righteous, educational materials and methods of working with students.
The training will enable its participants to learn about the idea of “The Day of the Righteous”, obtain educational materials, see a virtual exhibition devoted to the Righteous and meet board members and activists of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations and of the Association of “Children of the Holocaust” in Poland. There will also be a possibility to participate in the walk “Following the Righteous”. Everyone who would like to take part in this event is asked to contact Ewa Opawska: [email protected]or to call Karolina Dzięciołowska: 22 471 03 73, until October 15th, 2010.
The project “Righteous in Polish Schools” is an effect of our belief that acts of people who risked their lives and the lives of their families to save another person are a perfect model in patriotic education and help preserve the historical bond between generations. We would like to help schools to reach the witnesses of history and to make it possible for them to organize “Days of the Righteous” – meetings of students with unknown heroes, often close neighbors.
