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Two teachers, an American and a Pole, were honored with the Irena Sendlerowa Award "For Fixing the World." This was the first edition of the award, founded as an initiative by the Children of the Holocaust Association in Poland and the American "Life in a Jar" Foundation. The award was officially granted to Norman Conard and Robert Szuchta March 24 in Warsaw at a ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On the previous day, the laureates received the award personally from the 96-year-old patron. During World War II, 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto were saved by the children's department of the underground Żegota Council to Help Jews. Sendlerowa was the department's president.
Elżbieta Ficowska, president of the Children of the Holocaust Association, whose members include people saved by Żegota, says the initiators of the award wanted to honor Sendlerowa and promote the ideals and attitudes she represented. The award is addressed to teachers in elementary and high schools in the United States and Poland whose achievements prove that they teach tolerance and respect for others. Both laureates received a check for $10,000, funded by an anonymous sponsor in the United States.
The American laureate, Norman Conard, teaches social studies at Uniontown High School in Uniontown, Kansas. Six years ago, three of his students prepared a school play about the work of Sendlerowa during World War II, which made the woman a well-known person in the United States and beyond. Conard is the director of the "Life in a Jar" Foundation.
Robert Szuchta teaches history at the Witkacy High School in Warsaw. He writes history textbooks and is the author of a book entitled Holokaust. Zrozumieć dlaczego (The Holocaust: Understanding Why).
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