DAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IN LUBLIN
On December 17th, 2010 in the 9th Secondary School in Lublin on the initiative of Iwona Kryczka was held the “Day of the Righteous”. It consisted of a meeting with the Righteous Marianna Krasnodębska and of workshops for young people.
During the “Day of the Righteous”were held two workshops devoted to the Holocaust and to attitudes of Poles towards Jews during the Second World War.
Afterwards, the students had the opportunity to meet Marianna Krasnodębska née Jarosz, honored in 2001 with the title “Righteous Among the Nations” for rescuing Jews during the Second World War.
During the war, together with her whole family, living in Piaski near Lublin, she was member of the Home Army and collaborated with the Jewish Combat Organization. The Jarosz family smuggled food, medicines and arms to the ghetto, organized identity cards and false documents, and transmitted information about Nazi actions. For the whole time they were also helping the Lewin family, resettled from Stargard Szczeciński in 1940.
The Righteous presented her account devoted to the Polish-Jewish relations in Piaski during the Second Polish Republic and to the help offered to Jews during the war.
Students of the 3rd grades of the 9th Secondary School – about 150 people in total – participated in the meeting in Lublin. In the event also participated Dominika Majuk from the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theater” Center and Beata Kowalska from the Jewish Community in Warsaw, Lublin branch – granddauthter of one of the Survivors and of the Rescuer.
Since its founding, the 9th Secondary School in Lublin has been organizing classes devoted to memory education. Since three years teachers have been focusing on the extermination of Jews and the educational program “Alley of Memory” was also created. In September the school was visited by Tomasz Blatt – a Holocaust survivor, inmate of the former Sobibor extermination camp and author of the book “Escape from Sobibor”.
The school has prepared its students and teachers to the meeting with Marianna Krasnodębska by participating in the training of the program “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” carried out as part of the project "Righteous in Polish schools" financially supported by the Governmental Program - Civic Initiatives Fund.
On December 21st, 2010 Iwona Kryczka organized workshops devoted to the Righteous for students of the S. F. Klonowic Community School in Lublin. Unfortunately the invited Righteous could not come due to health problems, but the meeting will be held in the spring.
More about Marianna Krasnodębska on the portal “Polish Righteous”.
The project is financially supported by the Governmental Program – Civil Initiatives Fund.
Community
[Polish, gmina; Yiddish, kahal; Hebrew, kehila]
A form of organization in Jewish communities. The term has two meanings: it refers to a group of Jews having their own internal organization, including self-government and authorities; it also means the body of authorities governing this group.
Jewish law and tradition, along with government legislation, were the two main factors(...)
Community
[Polish, gmina; Yiddish, kahal; Hebrew, kehila]
A form of organization in Jewish communities. The term has two meanings: it refers to a group of Jews having their own internal organization, including self-government and authorities; it also means the body of authorities governing this group.
Jewish law and tradition, along with government legislation, were the two main factors(...)
Extermination
Shoah [Hebrew]
The planned genocide of European Jewry perpetrated by the Nazis and based on the racist doctrine was one of the pillars of German fascism. This ideology proclaimed the need to remove Jews and other "lower" races from the German Lebensraum.
The history of the Holocaust may be broken down into three phases: 1933-39, 1939-41 and 1941-44. After Hitler came(...)
Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
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Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
Gabriela Zalewska
Home Army
Home Army: an armed organization of the Polish Underground State, subject to the Commander in Chief and the Republic of Poland government in exile. The first such organization was the Polish Victory Service; it was established in September 1939, and in November it was transformed into a Union for Armed Struggle. As a result of the so-called uniting action in February 1942, ZWZ, combined with other(...)
Lublin
[Yiddish, Lublin]
In the fourteenth century, Lublin became an important political and economic center. Beginning in 1413, Polish-Lithuanian congresses took place there; in 1474, Lublin became the voivodship capital, and in 1578, the seat of the Crown Tribunal, the court of last instance for the nobility. In addition, the sejms (parliaments) would convene there.
The city played(...)
Lublin
[Yiddish, Lublin]
In the fourteenth century, Lublin became an important political and economic center. Beginning in 1413, Polish-Lithuanian congresses took place there; in 1474, Lublin became the voivodship capital, and in 1578, the seat of the Crown Tribunal, the court of last instance for the nobility. In addition, the sejms (parliaments) would convene there.
The city played(...)
