Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland

  • As part of the celebration of the Holocaust Day, students from our school visited the Gross Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica.We saw the exhibition "At risk of living - Poles saving Jews during the Holocaust". The exhibition was devoted to those who helped the Jews during the Second World War.

    In addition, we learned about the specificity of German occupation in Polish territories, the division of the city space into ghettos and the "Aryan side", sanctions that threaten to help Jews. The main role in the narrative is played by the individual fates of the Poles who survived - above all those awarded by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem with the title Righteous Among the Nations. It is through their biographies that everything that during the war and the Holocaust is a testimony to both the greatness of man, his sacrifice and great goodness, as well as meanness and the dormant evil inside him. 

    Exhibition there used priceless collection of more than 400 interviews with the last Righteous Among the Nations in Poland, which was collected in the years 2007-2013 in the framework of the museum project "Polish Righteous - Recalling For Memory".