The Jewish heritage in Budapest and Cracow.

  By Lucía Loureiro Cela, 4th year ESO, IES de Catabois, Ferrol.

The Jewish heritage in Budapest:

The Jewish district of Budapest is exciting and tragic too. It has got the second biggest synagogue in the world but, as well, it was a guetto where the Nazis forced the Jews to live, in times of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The Jewish district is on the bank of the east bank of the Danube river.

Visit to the Schindler Factory in Cracow.

The Schindler factory is located in the Zablocie district in Cracow, within walking distance from Plac Bohaterow Getta (in Podgorze). Today, it is a museum which displays all the historical period since the trigger of Second World War till the Soviet occupation of Poland.               

   

 

The factory welcomes the visitor with a large plaque which reads: 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire'. It was erected by the Jewish Community Council of Cracow and Students and Faculty of Albion College (Michigan, USA) as you can see in the photograph.

The people of Krakow in times of terror 1939-1945-1956

By: Filippa Kajrup

In Poland there is a museum called Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa. There are several different exhibitions. During the World War 2, Gestapo's headquarters was located in Krakow, at Pomorska street. Today it is a place for national memories and also the most important point in the exhibition we went to:  The People of Krakow In Times of Terror 1939-1945-1956. This exhibition told us about the interesting, but also the very terrible history of the city. Where the Polish people fought for freedom and justice.

WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE.

By Sandra Cepeiro García, 3^rd year ESO A. Coordinators: Emilia Saavedra Seijo and Alfonso Prieto Pita.

Women's right to vote should have been accepted much earlier. The first time that women could vote without any restriction was in New Zealand in 1893, because of Kate Sheppard´s struggle.

 

The heart of the Jewish quarters in Cracow. Part I

A WALK FROM FLORIANSKA TO PODGORZE: Deep into the heart of the Jewish quarters in Cracow.
Following some indications prepared by the teachers involved in the visit to Poland beforehand, it was decided that the students would be in charge of guiding our tour to Podgorze in Cracow, with a previous stop at Kazimierz. 

                                 

HeForShe Campaign

By Amanda Schreiber & Frida Gerhardsson

Emma Watson has started a campaign for gender equality called HeForShe. She has also given a formal invitation to the men to participate. This is a big problem in the society of today and with this campaign she wants the world to take a step in the right direction for gender equality.

Shoes that make a difference

By Hanna Josefsson 

Blake Mycoskie wanted to help poor, shoeless children to avoid infections and diseases. In 2006, he started to sell fabric-shoes made in Argentina. For every pair of shoes he sold, he gave a new pair to a child in need. Until today, Tomorrow´s shoes, have given 35 million pair of shoes in around seventy countries and the shoes are famous all around the world. They collaborate with a lot of humanitarian organizations, and the assortment of shoes has expanded fast and today they sell more than just shoes.

FIELDS MEDAL MATHEMATICS PRIZE WON BY WOMAN FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

Fields medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born and raised in Iran, has been awarded the highest honour a mathematician can attain.

Maryam Mirzakhani          

IMMIGRATION

By Marcos Expósito Bello and Alfonso Martínez Ferreño.

3º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)
 

About 400 immigrants have tried to enter the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla in an illegal way. They were trying to climb and jump the frontier fence from several different spots simultaneously and, at the same time, they were trying to avoid the security measures displayed by the Moroccan Auxiliary Forces and the Civil Guard on both sides of the frontier, which was reinforced by a helicopter from the army. The last try of fence jumping was on 31^st October, when 300 immigrants tried to enter Melilla illegally but none achieved.

LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD

By Bella Jasmin Kahia da Silva, Lucía Loureiro Cela, María Roca Pérez, Carla Gago Castro, Claudia Prieto Puga, Azael Enríquez Fernández, Pablo Rodeiro Rañales, Aicha Pato Romero, Eli Tatyanova Petkova, Mario Martínez Estévez, André Rey Vidal y Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez.

2º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

                                       

In October 2012, the Taliban put a bullet in her head, but they couldn’t silence her. Malala Yousafzai defends the right of school attendance for women in her country, Pakistan, and raises her voice in favour of every boys and girls right of Education.

Her fight and courage have been recognised with the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the Indian activist Kaliash Satyarthy, founder of the N.G.O. “Global March against children work”.

Malala is 17, and the youngest person ever receiving a Nobel Prize.  But her fight started when she was 11.