Educational project The Righteous Among The Nations

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Educational projectThe Righteous Among The
Nations The Righteous Among UsEducational
project- part of the project within the active
citizenship
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Marta PszczolaSzkola Gimnazjum nr 29ul.
Aleksandry 1730-837 Kraków MalopolskaPoland
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Interdisciplinary project aimed to the active
citizenship realized by the young people
attending Cracows lover secondary school.
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Project AIMS

• Its purpose is to
• approach to the young the fates of the people
  who rescued Jews sentenced to death during the
  World war II
• help them to discover places and documents
  testimonies of those traumatic events
• make the acquaintance of the fates of those who
  risked their relatives lives to rescue people of
  different culture and religion.

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Project DESCRIPTION

• The project is realised particularly by the young
  people who testify and write down the stories of
  the Righteous, and remind other members of the
  local community about those events.
• Project realized on the premises of a school and
  outside.

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Pedagogical dimension - students understand
better their and others attitudes and values.

• In the classroom
• preparation of the young people to the meeting
  with the Righteous- list of the questions
• reconstruction of historical background of the
  events connected to the recollections of the
  Righteous using the historical, literary and
  biographical source of war witnesses
• realization of the lesson on Holocaust
• arouse students interest in history and culture
  of their region
• construction of bonds between the generations

• Outside the classroom
• conversation, interview with the person honoured
  with the title of Righteous Among the Nations
• meeting with the person rescued by the
  Righteous
• taking care of the places recollected by
  Righteous
• writing down Righteous story into the annals
  in the form of an interview
• organization of the recollection evening with the
  participation of parents, teachers and students
• publications in the local newspaper
• supply documentary evidence of the collected
  information in the annual dedicated to the
  Righteous

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Social dimension - esteem in reciprocal relations
student-student, student-war witness .

• In the classroom
• arousing students interest in the history and
  culture of their own region
• learning of the cooperation, responsibility and
  communication with others
• learning of the esteem for other cultures,
  religions, traditions and customs
• construction of bonds between the generations

• Outside the classroom
• united efforts in looking for documents and
  materials
• taking care of the places recollected by the
  Righteous
• helping the Righteous in daily living/ shopping
  tidying, reading books

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Political dimension - working out the values
which guide the young people .

• In the classroom
• construction of bonds between the generations
• emphasizing the values and family policy - the
  correct relations between the generations of
  young, their parents and their grandparents

• Outside the clasroom
• collecting of documents photos, notes connected
  to the war
• Interviews
• cooperation and exchange of information with the
  young of the same age living in different
  countries

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Ethical dimension - construction of the conduct
standards in peoples relations .

• In the classroom
• learning of being cooperative, responsible and
  communicative to the others
• building the ethical attitude by showing noble
  and brave behaviour
• bringing up the young in the spirit of tolerance
  and human right esteem

• Outside the classroom
• on construction of the real, open and democratic
  society
• building of bonds and communication between the
  young in different countries
• dialogue and conversations of students from many
  countries concerning the history and the past
• construction of the commune Europe based on
  esteem and respect of the history, culture and
  religion

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Result of the project

• collection and recollection of the historical
  background of the events connected to the
  memories of the Righteous
• collection of possible documents, photos, notes
  referring to the Righteous and sharing them
  with others
• history of the values, written down by students,
  witch guided people helping the Jews
• articles in local press
• photos
• annual
• recordings/ interview
• exposition

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Conclusions

• Our students have the stories of people who
  helped the Jews and saved them during the World
  War II.They have also collected lost of photos
  and documents.
• They shared this achieved knowledage with ther
  schoolmates and the local society taking the
  World War II and the present moral view of
  society into account.
• The activ way of teaching as well as the proces
  of creating the historical awareness of our
  society and creating the new, open and tolerant
  Europe is for teacher a wery important aim at
  their work with yaung people.
• The involving both young people and their
  teachers in the project Fair People succeeded.
  Our students had a chance to meet Ms Miriam
  Akavia at our school.

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Reflection

• Creating the active attitudes of students means
• Learing about the tolerance and democracy
• Shaning their knowledge cnnected with the history
  of the World War II that makes themthink about
  this difficult of cruelty and suffening
• Showing the only way of peaceful coexistance of
  all nations that is toleranc which is essential
  to creat democracy
• Learing how to be a tolerant person bearing in
  mind the past and theistory what is sometimes
  very difficult
• Showing the right attitudes of Polish students
  towards Jews ather foreigners and the ethnic
  minorities.