On Thursday in Warsaw, the German ambassador, Viktor Elbling, and the manager of the POLIN Museum of the past of Polish Jews, Zygmunt Stępiński, signed a grant of EUR 1 million. This grant will enable the implementation of a task called “Memoir, Education, Accessibility”.
Thanks to the transfer of EUR 1 million by the national Ministry of abroad Affairs of Germany, the educational task "Memoir, Education, Availability" will be possible. The signing ceremony was held on Thursday at the POLIN Museum of the past of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The aim of the task is to advance the heritage of Polish Jews through educational programs, training, ensuring access to culture, building local partnerships and expanding historical resources.
– I am highly obliged to the national Government of Germany for the contribution of a million euro to the "Memoir, Education, Accessibility" programme, which combines educational activities, integration and dissemination of cognition about the thousand-year presence of Jews in our part of Europe. The ambition of the grantor and the POLIN Museum squad is to supply our audience with experience that will change her way of thinking; so that the past of Polish Jews becomes as crucial and alive as their own – said Stępiński during the Thursday celebration.
The task mainly aims to scope school youth, teachers and local communities throughout Poland. Its task is to increase cognition about the past and culture of Polish Jews and to prevent anti-Semitism. According to the organizers, the task will cover about 70 000 participants.
Zygmunt Stępiński recalled the crucial visit of Chancellor of the national Republic of Germany, Willy Brandt, to Warsaw in December 1970. During this visit, the politician visited the Ghetto Heroes' Monument, and earlier, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, paid tribute to the fallen Poles during planet War II.
– After folding the wreath, Willy Brandt kneeled on the steps of the monument. This gesture, despite the iron curtain, ran around planet media. The Watchers interpreted them as admitting German guilt for the demolition of the judaic people. It all happened half a 100 steps from where we are now. said manager POLIN.
Lega artis App– There is no evidence to consider this behaviour as planned by image professionals or German politicians – he argued, stressing that the German Chancellor had decided to make a motion on the way from Wilanów, where he lived during the visit. "He realized that the standard head tilt in this case would be insufficient". “With this 1 symbolic motion he made more for German-Jewish and Polish-German relations than all before him and many after him... The kneeling before Nathan Rapoport's monument opened the way to dialogue, agreement and yet reconciliation."
Viktor Elbling, German ambassador, besides referred to the Chancellor's visit. – Willy Brandt was not straight responsible, but belonged to that generation. He left Germany as a social Democrat. But this motion took work for what happened. present we should ask ourselves a akin question, although, of course, we are not personally guilty. However, we have a work as Germans. And it's not the kind of work that ends someday. – he noted.
The task will host educational workshops for students and teachers, which will take place in schools, museums and online. Activities aimed at the Ukrainian community in Poland and programmes addressed to the wider public were besides envisaged. 1 of these programs will be the “Museum on Wheels” which will visit 10 localities in Poland, mainly with a population of up to 50,000 inhabitants. Each visit will be accompanied by a cultural programme prepared in cooperation with local task partners. In addition, “summer meetings with culture” are planned, which will take place in the open air around the museum.
Programs were besides prepared for families, which will mainly take place at the "At King Macius" household Education Site, referring to the educational thought of Janusz Korczak. For young people, teachers and national minorities there is an Open summertime School, held online, and an global conference on teaching past and methodology. Classes for alleged "multiplicators", i.e. those active in popularising and protecting judaic cultural heritage, aim to strengthen the competences associated with "anti-discrimination education".
We would like to remind you that peculiar events have late taken placetraining from designation and anti-Semitism will besides be conducted for uniformed services.
– POLIN Museum runs 1 of the most extended educational projects not only in Poland, but besides among European, possibly even planet museums. It is possible that institutions, states share our mission: to reconstruct and defend the memory of the past of Polish Jews, combining this with any contemporary elements specified as anti-discrimination and condemnation of all forms of exclusion. The German government has been our partner for years; it was 1 of the first donors of the museum, allocated a crucial grant to prepare and execute the permanent exhibition – recalled POLIN Museum Director.
– Grant, which was handed over to us by the national Republic of Germany, is highly important, due to the fact that it allows us to proceed our educational activity without disruption – he added.
The task besides involves conducting activities inside the Museum, specified as upgrading selected multimedia sites and creating fresh recordings for audio-conductors after the permanent exhibition. The improvement of the portals “Virtual Sztetl” and “Polish Righteous” is besides planned, and the digitisation of museum collections.
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