Warsaw ghetto: clandestine education and resistance

• Grant number: 14/50272-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: March 01, 2016
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Ana Szpiczkowski
• Grantee: Ana Szpiczkowski
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work consists of analyzing documents regarding the education of children in clandestine age of fifteen in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War, when Hitler to invade Poland in 1939, ordered the confinement of Jews in ghettos. Through this analysis, we sought to understand the organization and ongoing activities in a clandestine school, besides knowing the perception institutional, educators and children involved in the educational process. It was evident that education was one of the most important scenarios for individual and collective resistance. The organization of teaching and educational activities were geared to the needs of the child and the community. The time required that a social altitude be taken in conjunction with educational measures thus ensured education for life physically, emotionally and, to the extent possible, the intellectual life of the child. Education considered the present moment the child allowing adults and children react to the reality in order to transform it, appealed to the historical past in strengthening your child's historical and cultural memory and envisioned a future with possibilities, in which the child survivor of the war would continue their lives as individuals and as a people with history and memory. (AU)