The Irena Sendler Award "For Repairing the World" has been presented 18 August in Warsaw during a ceremony hosted by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The award went to Grażyna Ferenc, an educator from Kęty.

The Irena Sendler Award "For Repairing the World" is given annually to one primary or secondary school teacher for innovative, inspirational and action-oriented teaching in a spirit of tolerance and respect. 2011 Laureate Grażyna Ferenc works as a teacher at Zespół Szkół in Kęty.

Dear Colleagues, School Directors, Teachers, Educators, Students,

Under the decision of the Minister of National Education in 2004, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity is commemorated in Polish schools 19 April – the date when the uprising arose within the Warsaw Ghetto. This date allows us to underline during the events at schools not only the remembrance of the tragedy and the victims of the Holocaust, but also the possibility to oppose the crimes against humanity.

A seminar on the Holocaust Education for the regional coordinators and teachers from Poland took place 19 – 23 March 2011 at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris. The seminar was organized by the Citizenship Education Department of the Centre for Education Development within the project Maintaining Remembrance – History and Culture of the Two Nations. Learning from Each Other.

The Yad Vashem Institute offers Holocaust Education workshops. The workshops are based on the Institute's own educational materials in Polish language: Auschwitz Album. "Lesson plan and materials for upper secondary school" and "May Your Memory Be Love. The Story of Ovadia Baruch"

September 2010, a small group of 10 Israeli educators met at Ben Gurion airport in Israel to fly to Warsaw for a seminar with Polish educators in the frame of "Getting Together" program. At first, there was a bit of embarrassment then each found a partner to talk to. Arriving to Warsaw, we were taken to Sulejowek where we were warmly received by Mrs. Ewa Bobinska.

Read the text of Hani Milchan from "Navon" High school in Israel

The third Polish – American seminar „Education and Remembrance – Learning from Each Other" aimed at exchange of experience in the field of the Holocaust education took part 9 – 13 October in the Residential Training centre in Sulejówek. It was organized by the Centre for Education Development in Warsaw in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington D.C.