Righteous on blogs: Polin Webfusion

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
This year’s edition of the Polin Webfusion blogging project carried out by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is in full swing. As part of this program, students from Wrocław and Hod Ha-Sharon have spent two weeks together.

In August students from high schools in Wrocław – the Bolesław Chrobry High School no. 12 and the Adam Mickiewicz High School no. 3 – hosted Israeli students from the Hadarim High School in Hod Ha-Sharon.

The Israelis spent eight days in Poland. During this time they made a trip to the Stołowe Mountains, a tour of Wrocław and surrounding areas, participated in an urban game, organized a visit to Gross Rosen and jointly took part in a memorial ceremony.

The Polish students who went to Israel participated in celebrations of the Jewish new year, stayed in Bedouin tents in the heart of the desert and visited the sacred places of Christianity.

The trips to Poland and Israel were the last part of the blogging project Polin Webfusion. Its participants jointly created blogs devoted to Holocaust survivors and the Righteous Among the Nations.

The blogs created in 2010 present: Ryszard Witkowski, Wanda Kołomijska, Antoni Skory, Jadwiga Hreniak, Grzegorz Szyjewicz, Ignacy Goldwasser, Lucyla and Wojciech Kowalski, the Jaworski family, Bolesław Gleichgewicht.

In the end of November and beginning of December two other groups of Polish participants of the project Polin Webfusion will go to Israel: students from Warsaw and Toruń.

Polin Webfusion is an international exchange program with participants from high schools in Poland and Israel. The participants create blogs devoted to individuals rescued from the Holocaust and the Righteous Among the Nations.

Students meet the Righteous and Rescued in their respective countries and learn history listening to their accounts – not history written in textbooks but history lived and experienced by eyewitnesses. 

Polin Webfusion  brings together the past and the present, young and old, Israelis and Poles.

Polin Webfusion is a continuation of the 36 Righteous Competition organized by the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in 2008.

The project is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the “Promotion of Knowledge about Poland” cyclical program.

More about the project on the website of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.