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I would like to inform You that it was the last activity that students were participating in. I hope all the benefits of our meeting will contribute to Your success. Hope that Your students will be achieving the best and that the knowledge about the links with Poland will inspire You in Your lives. U.Palka

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I think that the greatest hero of the World War II was James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, the superhero from the Marvel Universe. He was also known as "Winter Soldier". So, he was former soldier of the "107th Infantry Regiment". Also, he was best friend of Steve Rogers (Captain America). His regiment was captured by the forces of H.Y.D.R.A which was the nazi organisation. Actually, he was brain washed by HYDRA's scientists. They used him to eliminate the enemies and threaters. When he was going to eliminate Nick Fury, he accidentally met his old friend - Steve Rogers. The mission didn't succeed and Bucky revolted, killed the Red Skull. He went to the bright side of the force and joined the ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D led by Nick Fury.

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Probably one of the biggest heroes of II World War is Witold Pilecki. He was best known for his Witold’s Report, which was the first detailed report of the interior of the Auschwitz Camp, which before his report was believed to be a large prison, not a death camp. He was a very brave person - in 1940 he voluntarily went to Auschwitz Concentration Camp to infiltrate and write reports about the terrific conditions, they were there and survived 2,5 years. He escaped from there by the bakery door.
Witold Pilecki is a hero, because he was always helping others in order to make Poland free. He went to place with no return, knowing that he had kids and they may never see him again. He survived the war but was killed by the Soviet regime.  We can now realize how much he had done for us.
B. Głuc

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Very inspiring person who took part in Holocaust is Jan Karski ps. 'Witold'. He was born 24th of June in 1914. Polish and United States citizen, lawyer and diplomat, historian, university lecturer and professor at Georgetown University. Also he was secretary of the director of the Personnel Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jan Karski was a courier and political emissary. He became famous of 3 reports about what was happening in Auschwitz. He got into the Warsaw Ghetto twice and  then, disguised as a Ukrainian guard, he entered the camp, from which the Germans transported Jews to death. His reports Karski was preparing with his brother. This report was written in early February 1940 in Angers, written down by a courier. He was historically the second. First of all it was was considered missing. He was found and identified in the resources of the Sikorski Institute by Waldemar Piasecki. The last, third one was written
in early December 1942 in London and handed over to the Polish government. After his death he got an order. Karski was very brave and determined. I really admire him.
L.Nowak

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[Natalia Wcisło]

Irena Sendlerowa is a woman who in 1942 started to help Jews. In "Żegota" she performed functions related to helping children, smuggling them out of the ghetto and finding them shelter in a safe place. Woman with a group of people faked documents, falsified biographies and masked the Jewish origin of young charges. They were secretly taken out of the ghetto. She could save over 2,500 children in this way.
Till the end of the war she was engaged in underground activities.

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Oskar Schindler is in my opinion one of the most inspiring people positively involved in WW2. He was an owner of the Emalia factory in Kraków, the place where Polish Jews were forced to work. But he wasn't like the other German people at all, he did a really great job helping prisoners to escape from ghetto and also trying his best to save as many people as he could. He died in 1974 and got burried in Jerusalem on a catholic cementary. In 1993 he was rewarded with the highest Israelian order.
He is the best example of a single person who can be in opposition to the whole establishment and still achieve a succes in doing great things.
M.S.

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During World War II there were many heroes who fought in defense of Poland. In my opinion, one of the bravest people during World War II is Witold Pilecki, a soldier of the Polish Army. He did an amazing thing - he got in and escaped from Auschwitz.
Witold was born on 13 May, 1901, in Ołoniec. He was a Polish cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and leader of resistance movement. Also, he was the author of first reports on Auschwitz.
He was one of the few people who managed to escape from the Death Camp. It was a huge act of courage and I think that this is the proof for me and all people that nothing is impossible and that we always have to fight.

M. Drabczyk

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The Second-World War was a very horrible time for people. We know many heroes who were helping other people. But nowadays we rarely hear about them. It is not right. We should speak up about their courage, not only about well-known, but also we should look for unknown. Because they could be a wonderful inspiration for the lives of many young people.
One of these people is Elżbieta Zawacka. Also has known as “Zo”, “Sulica” or “Zelma”. She was born in 1909 (before Poland regained independence). Before the war, she was a teacher, but in September 1939 she joined the Silesian branch of ZWZ (Union of Armed Struggle). During the war, she worked as a courier to keep contact with Polish government in London. She often traveled across Germany – it was really dangerous. When she went on February 1943 to London, she came back half of year later as member of Cichociemni. She was the only woman in history of this group. Also, she became a general as the second woman in Polish army. She survived  the war and died in 2009.
She was a very brave person , who risked her life every day but she had the heart to fight. Her determination could be very valuable for many young nowadays.

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And the last thing that was thought to be done is the Freedom song by Grechuta - There is a translation here but not full and the last , most important verses are only in Polish. Can you have a try to translate them?

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Tekst piosenki:

Gdy widzisz ptaka w locie jak wolny jest
Jak płynie sobie, aż po nieba kres
Wiedz - niebo bywa pełne wichrów i burz
A z lotu ptaka już nie widać róż

Bo wolność - to nie cel lecz szansa by
Spełnić najpiękniejsze sny, marzenia
Wolność - to ta najjaśniejsza z gwiazd
Promyk słońca w gęsty las, nadzieja

Wolność to skrzypce z których dźwięków cud
Potrafi wyczarować mistrza trud
Lecz kiedy zagra na nich słaby gracz
To słychać będzie tylko pisk, zgrzyt, płacz

Bo wolność - to wśród mądrych ludzi żyć
Widzieć dobroć w oczach ich i szczęście
Wolność - to wśród życia gór i chmur
Poprzez każdy bór i mur znać przejście

Wolność lśni wśród gałęzi wielkich drzew
Które pną się w słońce każda w swoją stronę
Wolność brzmi jak radosny ludzi śmiech
Którzy wolność swą zdobyli na obronę -

Zwycięstwa, mądrości, prawdy i miłości
Spokoju, szczęścia, zdrowia i godności
Wolność to diament do oszlifowania
A zabłyśnie blaskiem nie do opisania

Wolność to także i odporność serc
By na złą drogę nie próbować zejść
Bo są i tacy, którzy w wolności cud
Potrafią wmieszać swoich sprawek brud

A wolność, to królestwo dobrych słów
Mądrych myśli, pięknych snów
To wiara w ludzi

Wolność
Ją wymyślił dla nas Bóg
Aby człowiek wreszcie mógł
W Niebie się zbudzić

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Marek Grechuta - Wolność - tekst piosenki na Tekstowo.pl

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Gdy widzisz ptaka w locie jak wolny jest Jak płynie sobie, aż po nieba kres Wiedz - niebo bywa pełne wichrów i burz A z lotu ptaka już nie widać róż Bo wolność - to nie cel lecz szansa by Spełnić najpiękniejsze sny, marzenia Wolność - to ta najjaśniejsza z

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And for your writing exercises (both here and in the e-book)I would like you to use as many adverbs and adverbial collocations as possible. Use these: dispiritedly/ viously/ suspiciously/ unpleasantly/ vaguely/ truthfully and phrases: go reluctantly/ doubt seriously/ truly believe/ entirely agree/ distinctly remember/ completely forget/ freatly appreciate/ fully accept/flatly refuse/ strongly advice.

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For Mateusz and Gabrysia P - this film to be seen. In what ways the life of prisoners and methods used in the camp here were similar or different

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I know its hard  topic but  the art gallery may be started by Kaska and Iza - I know about their talents in this field but if you have a gift - as I said earlier (scroll up) - can't wait to see your creative minds.

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Art made in Auschwitz reveal the horrors inside the death camp | New York Post

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Here is so called 'Polish Anna Frank' - a documentary based on her diaries.  I also want everybody to see your reviews on Life is beautiful , Basia and Ola. I'm sure you managed to see the film I gave you last Fri.

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Pamiętnik Rutki Laskier - Rutka pamiętnik Zagłady

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Here you have got  Krakow commander during WW II - Frank's Wawel Castle in the film about Karol Wojtyla (since ca.34 min. till 1.24) - excellent role of an Italian actor Raoul Bova as a priest who gives an unforgettable speech during the supper at Wawel's hill. Hope there are English subtitles. Here is the whole cast http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1214736.  The memorial at Krakow's famous Cemetery devoted to the remembrance of concentration camps' victims is here  https://www.zck-krakow.pl/tours/1/spacer_po_cmentarzu_rakowickim. Ms Poltawska is the person who surivived Ravensbruck and was The Pope's John Paul II 's friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_P%C3%B3%C5%82tawska I would like you all to listen to the lady here (in Polish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYW8P4EiBm8

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I think Janusz Korczak is one of those quiet heroes some know others don't. But should. He wasn't a soldier. He did't fight with weapons, but with kindness and love. He was a doctor and social activist, especially for children's sake. He was a Jew too, what made him a target for Germans. He founded 2 Children's Homes. One of them The House of Orphans was specially for Jewish children, it existed in years 1912-1942 in Warsaw. He was one of the kindest persons that ever lived, he loved his job and was dedicated to it to the very end, when, even when he had a option to leave, he stayed with children and has been taken to the concentration camp in Treblinka and murdered in gas chambers with around of 200 children he took care of. He was holding hands with them, and guiding them further. In the film "Pianist" we can see a character who is meant to be Mr. Korczak, singing, dancing and playing with children on the ruined streets od Warsaw despite chaos and death surrounding them. He tried to keep the world as a warm and kind place for them. This is one of the greatest heroes.                                              G. Koster

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There were many heroes and heroines during the II World War. About some of them we know a lot but about the others not so much. There were many people who did many brave things and who can be a great inspiration for young people but we don’t even know that they existed.

Janina Bodnar-Takajszwili is one of them. She was a treasurer of one of the biggest underground grouping in Poland, a secretary of famous Andrzej Rzewuski and because of her, contact with London government was well kept.

Her life was always in danger because she used parts of her home as a secret warehouse for things like weapons, ammunition, patriotic symbols which were also at this time illegal, grenades and explosives. She also kept hidden a whole archives of WSGO “Warta”. All of these things were hidden in different places, like on the attic or under floor boards. Every time enemy troops were in her house she had to keep calm and think quickly to not reveal any information about wat was in the house or what she knew about underground activities.

Her life was hard and difficult. She had to lie to her friends and family to keep her work as a secret. But she did all of it because she loved her country and she wanted to make it free again. Even though she probably was scared she still fought, and was only thinking about the wealth of Poland and not about herself and her personal problems.

K. Wawrzyk

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There is a song by James Blunt entitled NO BRAVERY.  Think about the lyrics. I've prepared a worksheet on that text of meaningful content. Here is the link - you can edit it and treat as 'a common property' https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EN0QxjJL1BMitiOMSUlQ0pz_K8BHA9zUp9V0J92eOQs/edit?usp=sharing

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James Blunt - No Bravery (Official Music Video)

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"(...) I had outlined the Dresden story many times. The best outline I ever made, or anyway the prettiest one, was on the back of a roll of wallpaper. I used my daughter's crayons, a different color for each of the story , and the other end was the end, and then there was all the middle part, which was the middle. And the blue line met the red line and then the yellow line, and the yellow line stopped becuase the character represented by a vertical band of orange cross-hatching, and all the lines that were still alive passed through it, came out the other side. The end, where all the lines stopped, was a beetfield on the Elbe, outside of Halle. The rain was coming down. The was in Europe had been over for a couple of weeks. We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us - Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. "                        (an excerpt from Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut)      I would like to ask those of You who feel like drawing something - either under the impression of what we've seen or you have seen in films you watched on the topic - to make our own art gallery here - make an effort and draw / paint/ create collage/ cartoon/ sketch/ painting to submit . Can't wait to see the expression of your thoughts online. You may use this site to help you

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This strategy invites students to reflect on ideas in nonverbal ways and encourages them to think metaphorically. Students first focus on something they've just read and think about the most important theme, idea, or emotion that surfaced for them. Then they reflect on how they can communicate the essence of what they've read using a color, a symbol, and an image. Use this strategy to vary the ways you invite students to respond to ideas in order to appeal to the strengths of a variety of thinking and learning styles.

1. Choose a Stimulus
You can base this activity on any document, image, video clip, or other resource that you think might prompt significant engagement, wonder, or emotion from your students. Once you have chosen the stimulus, give students time to read, watch, or observe.

2. Students Respond to the Stimulus
Prompt students this way:

Think about the major themes, ideas, or emotions in what you've just read, and select one big idea that you'd like to focus on. Then do the following:

Choose a color that you think best represents that idea.

Choose a symbol that you think best represents that idea.

Choose an image that you think best represents that idea.

3. Debrief
You might opt to keep students' responses private. You can also use theGallery Walk teaching strategy to help students reflect on the patterns, similarities, and differences in how they are responding to the stimulus.

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This strategy invites students to reflect on ideas in nonverbal ways and encourages them to think metaphorically. Students first focus on something they've just read and think about the most important theme, idea, or emotion that surfaced for them. Then they reflect on how they can communicate the essence of what they've read using a color, a symbol, and an image.

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We visited Auschwitz Birkenau Museum last week. Not surprising was the fact, that so many people have died there. But I didn't know that the highest rate of deaths were form Hungary, the Jews. Places like that camp have their own terrifying vibe which makes the visitors fright, even cry - those who are more sensitive and empathetic. Vision of walking where couple years ago walked people with a death sentence on their backs is hair-raising in it's horrifying form. It's a place worth seeing at least once in our lives. Maybe it wouldn't be revolutionary for us, but it seems important to know what cruelty can born from baseless hate towards other human beings

[Iza P.]

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(Natalia Wcisło)

This is David Olere. He survived  Auschwitz.

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Our English group visited Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. I think that this experience was really eyes-opening. We could see the terrible living conditions of normal people who lived in "wrong time" and just didn't have enough luck. For me exceptionally interesting was the art exhibition of images made by painter who survived this nightmare. When I was looking at paintings I could feel the pain and the suffering which the autor felt at this time.
[Joanna Majewska]

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My class and me, a few days after 27 January, attended a lecture about Hungarian Jews who were murdered in Auschwitz. I was really shocked, when we found out that over 420 000 Hungarian People died in that place. It was the biggest number of murdered people there.
Weronika Łydka

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I think David's Olere paintings are really nice piece of art.

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I want to submit a few photos from Auschwitz.
These are paintings created by David Olere. He survived this horrible time L.N

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“There is nothing that Sauron cannot turn to evil uses”

I found this episode of a Polish series Days of Honour. This is a story about Maria Konarska who is a doctor and a widow and mum; her two sons are fighting in AK (the Polish Army in an occupied land) and she works in a hospital serving everyone , especially those imprisoned in Pawiak prison, sending clothes to the poor, teaching students at Tajne Komplety - which was an hidden type of studying during regime etc. What I like the most is the fact that nobody is neither white nor black - the two doctors (she was surprised by the fact that  an old mate from before the war who is now at German army is placed in her hospital)at the different side of the war but trying to help ill people as much as they can.  See if you like it - the cast is superb - Ms Gniewkowska, Mr Englert, Ms Romantowka, Mr Globisz, Mr Woronowicz, Ms Cielecka in later episodes, young actors who play teammates - two sons of Konarscy (Michal and Wladek -  Jakub Wesolowski and Jan Wieczorkowski respectively), Jan (Antoni Pawlicki)who has a Jewish wife Lena (Agnieszka Więdłocha) and tries to rescue her from ghetto and Bronek (Maciej Zakoscielny)who fell in love with an actress Wanda (Maja Ostaszewska/Magdalena Różczka); she was prisoned in Pawiak where probably she was raped by a German officer. The cast of Germans also brilliant- Mr Adamczyk, Mr Malaszynski, Mr Bluszcz, Mr Wieczorek, Mr Kozyra .... A scriptwriter is Ms Ewa Wencel - she also plays a woman who rescues a child who must have gone through a trauma and probably is a Jewish child . A must see if you are interested in war films and history of good and bad people mingled in the time of choice when if someone wants to rescue his or her relative from the hell of concentration camp(Karol) is not a totally bad person any more. And the resource for the true models for all of them are here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichociemni

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Vod.tvp.pl - oglądaj filmy, seriale, programy - Telewizja Polska S.A.

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Oglądaj online Twoje ulubione seriale, programy, filmy i teatr tv. Zobacz przedpremiery hitów TVP. TVP VOD to najbogatsza oferta wideo online na rynku.

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Few days after 27th of January we visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It is such a powerful place to be in. You can feel the silence falling at you, this heavy silence walks with you all around the place, made you feel afraid to break it. This experience stays with you forever. When we went into the gas chamber we could see the place of torment of thousands of people, they were scratching the walls to get out of there. Then the crematory next to it and black ceiling, covered in soot. It is a remarkable place to see, and to feel.

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“Men are better than gates and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it” (Aragorn)

The entrance for so many Polish prisoners  such as Ms Anna Smolenska who created the Fighting Poland sign (P with an anchor)https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Smole%C5%84ska , Mr Franciszek Gajowniczek who got life from Father Maksymilian Kolbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXx0UTQ5SA, Mr Władysław Bartoszewski who fought for the peace between Poles and Germans https://culture.pl/en/artist/wladyslaw-bartoszewski and those who like Mr August Kowalczyk were actors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxVHlveA2g. Also Edit Stein who became a famous Phd catholic believer and blessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZAjxvcPcTs

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We visited Auschwitz Birkenau Museum last week. We learned how many people died there and that the most Jews who died there were from Hungary.
It was a frightening experience to see the huge pile of shoes and hair which belonged to people, who died there. In my view every person should visit this place at least once to see this place.
[Barbara Głuc]

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We visited Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum last week. We learned many things about Holocaust and a lot about lives of people who were brought to concentration camps, many of these information made my eyes watery. In my opinion everyone at least once in their lifetime should visit this museum and see all the buildings and other things connected with that horrible time.
(Katarzyna W)

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Last week I visited this place. It was experience that made me depressed. We should remember about our history and be careful to do not let it happened again. [Gabriela P.]

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I visited this place a week ago. It was a huge experience for me, honestly. All those things have happened there, really touched me. The most horrible place which we visited, was Birkenau. This cold wooden "house" was awful. One thing still bring tears to my eyes, that no one wanted to help them, everyone was blind for this situation.

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I visited this place last week. I think the most my attention caught a arrangement of blocks. It looks like  a typical housing estate not a 'death place'. Also I remember a story which a guide told us. It's about the longest morning assembly in Auschwitz (it lasted 20 hours and was outside). I can't imagine how horrible standing  still for such a  long time was.

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“The world  is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them” (Warden)

The workshops about the Hungarian Jews that students from Krakow participated in on 31st Jan in Auschwitz Remembrance Place , block 18, arranged in a very modern way.

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And for the teachers - there is an information that may be of some importance as they inform us about the facts that ... listen or read here http://thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/359482,Whats-Up-Insufficient-knowledge-about-the-Holocaust

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If you need any info about German Death Camps I would recommend this one. See the article about the architect of gas chamber camps. There is also a document depicting a photographer of Auschwitz prisoners here https://culture.pl/en/article/photographer-from-auschwitz

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Heinrich Himmler - architect of the Holocaust

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Here are the links for two versions (without the need of registering ) of the film I consider one of the most fundamental to understand the background thinking of Nazis. The dialogue is so meaningful that you don't need the action to imagine it not to say all the artefacts that remained. This is the Polish version below. And I tried to find an English one but there is only with the quality that leaves a lot to wish for. But still English speakers may follow the reality of the times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwftBH3oXCo.

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Ostateczne rozwiązanie / Conspiracy (2001) PL

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produkcja: USA, Wielka Brytania gatunek: Wojenny, Dramat historyczny premiera: 19 maja 2001 (Świat) reżyseria: Frank Pierson scenariusz: Loring Mandel Zima 1942 r., rezydencja Wannsee pod Berlinem. Szef IV wydziału gestapo - Adolf Eichmann, kieruje ostatnimi przygotowaniami do mającego się tu odbyć tajnego spotkania. Na stołach wykwintne jedzenie, eleganckie trunki, wytworna zastawa.

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Short story about Poland during WW II.

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An animated film telling the story of Poland's heroic struggle for independence 1939 - 1989

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Very inspiring man - for those who want to know more - there are plays and films about him. For example the one here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwTFiFPS6Y  And in another one short, taken out of the film scene about his unfair case in the "court" - the last meeting with the prosecutor who was simply lying in court to care that his crime was heard in the media to stir the truth with the lie outside the prison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmqS2HvKyDs. And finally the discussion - in the USA Holocaust Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVj0T5QBirs. The form of getting knowledge is up to you - the certain values are to be take from it. And the truth that was so long preserved from the public opinion.

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The Soldier Who Voluntarily Became a Prisoner in Auschwitz

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Here is the part of the fresc made by Italian artists  Antonio Marii Michetti and Angelo Molfetta in St Joseph's church in Oswiecim built as a commemoration of the death of 40000 Italian victims of the Concentration Camp. Its design is uncommon for the churches as the tabernacle in the right smaller nava (aisle)- not in the centre as usual - and the octagonal baptisterium with tiny windows made of stones;the whole architectural creation made from the light in colour stone and with wavy material like wodden ceiling, beautiful Cross Road of Christ leading to the tabernacle and some events of big importance for Polish history on the left. The centre is around the Cross hill in the scented glass windows where the altar is enlightened by the small round window with the cross in the ceiling just above it. Have a look.

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Watch Life is beautiful film in the parts as stated in the document. Then answer the questions. You may divide it into four part activities (during 4 days) or you may divide the film into parts during one session pausing the film and answering the questions.

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Read the questions about World War II . Answer them and check in pairs.

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This is the post from the 27th January 2018 - last International Holocaust Memorial Day. Listen and read the CBBC article and think about the question - how important it is to teach young kids about Holocaust? Is it a good idea? If yes how should we teach such serious topic? If no when should we start passing the knowledge about it?

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Holocaust Memorial Day is an event which happens every year to remember the millions of Jewish and non-Jewish people who were killed by a group called the Nazis, during World War Two. Find out more with our guide.

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Click the link and try to do the activity set.

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Listen and watch a short video Holocaust memorial: Ex-MPs discuss plans with schoolchildren

about young people teaching Members of Parliament why the Holocaust is important. Then think about their opinions on the topic of a plan to build a monument in front of the Houses of Parliament. Agree or disagree with them.

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Former MPs have consulted schoolchildren on plans for a Holocaust memorial at Westminster.

Ex-Labour MP, Ed Balls, and former Tory MP, Eric Pickles, joined a Year 11 class at the Sacred Heart School in Camberwell for a discussion about the Holocaust.
More stories from the Today programme here.

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Former MPs have consulted schoolchildren on plans for a Holocaust memorial at Westminster. Ex-Labour MP, Ed Balls, and former Tory MP, Eric Pickles, joined a Year 11 class at the Sacred Heart School in Camberwell for a discussion about the Holocaust. More stories from the Today programme here.

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Would you think that art is possible every time or do you consider it a luxury for those who have been provided with such basic things as food or shelter? Read the article about the Art from the Holocaust. Then look at the images and answer the questions: 1. Do you think reviewing such art is possible without being biased (after knowing the facts, the stories behind the canvas) ?2. Why is the author naming it 'deeply moving testaments to human resilience and the power of art'?

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Art from the Holocaust: The stories behind the images

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A new exhibition in Berlin explores the grim realities of life for Jews in Nazi camps and ghettoes. Thomas Rogers meets one of its curators.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is hoping to use social media and web technology to trace more than 1,000 children who survived World War II but became separated from their families in its aftermath. Photographs taken at the time by aid workers at refugee centres are the only record of the children's identities - and their fate remains a mystery.

Many of the children in the pictures, who are both Jewish and non-Jewish, are infants, too young to remember the war that displaced them.

Others are teenagers who almost certainly witnessed the death of close relatives and experienced first-hand the horror of the Nazi concentration camps and forced labour.

In what may be the last opportunity to find out what happened to them, the museum is turning to social media, publishing photos from various archives on its Remember Me website.

"We're using technology in ways we were not able to in the past, especially with social networking, Facebook and Twitter, which is helping us spread the word really quickly," says Dr Lisa Yavnai, director of the museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center and head of the Remember Me project.

Dr Yavnai says speed is critical as many of the survivors are now in their 80s and their numbers are dwindling.

"We don't know if many of them have Facebook pages, but maybe their children and their friends do, so we hope we'll find them that way," she says.

Reuniting families

There have been countless attempts over the decades to trace Holocaust survivors and reunite them with their families.

In 1945, the BBC began a series of broadcasts on behalf of children trying to find their relatives.

One of those announcements began with the words: "Captive children - an appeal from Germany."

It continued with a dispassionate but powerful description of the trauma and suffering experienced by each child.

"I call Keevash, Moshe Keevash, last heard of in London, on behalf of his cousin Dora Keevash, a 16-year-old Polish girl. She's been through the ghetto of Lodz, a labour camp and two concentration camps, including Belsen, and lost all her family."

Anybody with information was asked to write a letter to the Red Cross.

In contrast to the cumbersome communication methods available then, today's search is already yielding results, and several survivors have been identified from their online photos.

Michel Sztulzaft was the first to come forward.

He was little more than a toddler when he was photographed at a children's home near Paris where he and his mother had taken refuge.

Within 24 hours of his picture being posted on the museum's website, it was seen by a friend who contacted Mr Sztulzaft via Facebook.

"Seeing the photo was kind of funny," says Mr Sztulzaft. "It was a shock; I had never seen that one before."

Mr Stzulzaft's parents were originally from Poland and had been denounced during the Vel d'Hiv Round-up of 1942 - a mass arrest of Jews ordered by the Nazis and carried out by the French police.

His father was deported to Auschwitz, where he died, and his older brother was sent to the gas chambers.

But Mr Stzulzaft's mother, who was then pregnant with him, was saved by a French policeman who lied about her identity, claiming that she was French.

Only foreign Jews were to be arrested under the orders of that particular day.

"I think the [museum's] project, and remembering my modest story, is important because it allows us to know how, even in the darkest periods of history, there are people who do good, like the French policeman who saved my mom, who was pregnant with me, from being sent to the camps," Mr Sztulzaft says.

His mother was too traumatised to look after the young Michel, and he spent several years in orphanages operated by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, a French-Jewish humanitarian organisation that saved the lives of many Jewish children in Vichy France.

Victims of war

Mr Sztulzaft says his memories of that time were "not cheerful" and he became a "difficult child".

But he went on to marry, had two children and was happy working as a special educator.

He was also able to identify a photograph of his sister, who now lives in Israel.

"Children are often the most vulnerable victims of war and genocide but their voices are rarely heard," says Dr Yavnai.

"The Remember Me project gives the public an opportunity to give them a voice by highlighting their experiences and having time to reflect on what these children have gone through."

The story of Michel Sztulzaft and his sister Helene, along with any others that come to light, will become part of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's permanent collection.

Anyone with information about the children pictured in the Remember Me collection can contact the museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at RememberMe@ushmm.org.

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Tracing children of the Holocaust using social media

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is hoping to use social media and web technology to trace more than 1,000 children who survived World War II but became separated from their families in its aftermath. Photographs taken at the time by aid workers at refugee centres are the only record of the children's identities - and their fate remains a mystery.