The document outlines a lesson plan about Jews in Poland. The aims are for students to understand the Jewish contribution to European culture, know about famous Jews, and learn about the World War II exodus and slaughter of Jews in Poland. The plan involves a presentation, group work, and tasks analyzing photos and biographies of important Jewish figures like Richard Horowitz, Janusz Korczak, and Irena Sendler. Students will discuss the culture and history of Jews in Poland and commemorate those who lost their lives.

1. Jews in Poland. The memory must survive
1.Aims: (Students should)
-Understand the Jews contribution to the European culture in 19th and 20th centuries
- Are able to name some famous Jews
- Know the World War II exodus of the Jews and the slaughter of the Jewish
people in post-war Poland
- Understand the meaning of the Just Among The Nations Order
-Show the proper approach to the culture diferences
-Cooperate in group
-Develop their language skills
2. Methods: presentation, group-work, drama
3. Time: around an hour
4. Didactic resources: Copies of tasks, laptop, projektor, pens, sheets of paper,
records of Spilman and Rubinstein’s music, photos taken by Horowitz
5. Before the beginning of the class tables should be placed properly to group-
work
6. Events:
Teacher Students
1. The teacher presents the aims of the 1. Students sit in groups, choose
lessom, mentions the lessom is abort their leaders, do task in
tolerance, distributes sheets of paper to the attachment 1
students and pens Summing up – 8 minutes
2. The teacher introduces the topic: People of 2. Students listen to the
the Jewish nation have been living in Poland introduction
for a long time. They faced tolerance and
mass extermination by the German in World
War II. They distributed greatly to our
culture. Today you will be taught some of the
famous people of the Jewish nation,
distributes attachment 2 to the students – 3
minutes
3.The teacher monitors students’ work, sums 3.Students do the task in the
up their speches attachment (6minutes), they
show the results of their work
(10 minutes)
4.During World War II about 3,3 million of 4.Students watch the
News. After the war they sometimes faced presentation and do tasks in
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2. the attacks of the communist rulers. In the attachment 3 according to the
years 1968 – 1970 about 20 thousand Jews Lenart information – 10 minutes
left Poland for Israel. You will be shown the
presentation about those events
5. To commemorate what had happened 5.Polish students present the
Marches of the Living are held in Auschwitz topic. Turkish and Italian
every year. The Polish are one fourth of the students watch their
Just Among The Nations presentation (7 minutes)
6.The teacher distributes copies of 6.Students do the task in groups
crosswords (attachment 4) (7 minutes)
7.The teachers asks students to complete the 7.Students do the task
sentence
Today I learnt about …
Today I was surprised with …
8.The teacher completes the lessom and
thanks everybody for cooperation
Attachment 1
Write down everything you assiciate with or you know abort News (history, religion,
tradition, culture). You may use your mother tongues or draw/paint.
Attachment 2
Read the biography and present the person to other groups.
Group 1: Ryszard (Richard) Chorowitz was born on 5th May 1939 in Cracow, Polish
phographer who worked in the USA, the forerunner of computer processing of photography,
cofounder of The American Association of Advertising Photographers’ APA. In World War
II he was imprisoned in German concentration camps together with his Jewish family.
Thanks to Oskar (Oscar) Schindler he survived Auschwitz – Birkenau German Concentration
Camp as one of half thousand people. He was probably one of the youngest survivors. He
graduated from Cracow Artistic Liceum. He studied in The Academy of Arts in Cracow.
Since 1959 he has lived in New York in the USA. In the USA he studied in Pratt Institute. He
worked for amny agencies as artistic manager. Since November 1967 the owner of
photographic agency. His works are published and exhibited all over the world.
Additional question: What is mood of the photo.
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Read the biography and present the person to other groups
Group 2 Janusz Korczak was born on 22nd July 1878 in Warsaw. He was the forerunner of
actions protecting the laws of children and total emancipation. He introduced children’s
selfgovernments which were entitled to judge their tutors. He established the first magazine
published by children He was the pioneer of rehabilitation of adolescents and taking care for
difficult children. He was a doctor who decided he would not marry or have a family
probably because he considered all the children he cured and cared for to be his own ones.
He widely popularized the rights of children in the radio. During the war he wore a Polish
soldiers’ uniform He didn’t approve the discriminating marking of Jews with a blue or
yellow Star of David. He ran an orphanage in Warsaw during the war. In 1942 he moved to
ghetto with his children and after three months they were taken to Auschwith where they
were killed in a gas chamber.
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3. Read the biography and present the person to other groups
Group 3 Roman Polanski born 18 August 1933 in Paris, Polish director, screenwriter ans
theater screenplay writer, movie producer. His parents moved to Cracov in 1937. His father
Moses Liebling was a painter and plastic maker. His mother Bula (Bella) Polanski, nee Katz
was born in Russia. Roman Polanski was in Cracov ghetto then he hid in a village of Wysoka
near Wadowice as Roman Wilk. Since 1948 worked in a theatre. Since 1953 he acted in
films. 1954 he studied in PWST (Polish Film Academy) in Lodz. His first film Knife in
Water was nominated to Oscar Award. Then he left Poland for Europe.In 1975 he assumed
French citizenship. He received Oscar Award for films: The Child of Rosemary, Chnatown,
Tess and Pianist.
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Read the biography and present the person to other groups
Group 4 Irena Sendler, in Poland known as Irena Sendlerowa, proper name Irena
Stanislawa (Stanislaus) Sendlerowa, nee Krzyżanowska, born on 15th February 1910 in
Warsaw, died on 12th May 2008 in Warsaw. Polish social activist, called the Mother of the
Holocaust Children, one of the Righteous among the Nations. Her father Stanislaus
Krzyżanowski was a physician whose patients were mainly poor Jews. Because of his ill
health he spent his childhood in Otwock, which had the status of a spa. During the World
War II Irena worked for the city centre of social assistance. She started helping Jewish
children survive the war long before the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. In December 1942
she was appointed the head of the department of children by the newly formed Council for
Aid to Jews ‘Żegota’.For his work she was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo. She was
tortured and finally sentences to death. However ‘Żegota’ managed to save her by bribing the
German guards who left her unconscious and broken-limbed on the way to execution. She
saved approximately 2.5 thosand Jewish Children.
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