What's Up :: History matters
PR dla Zagranicy
Sławomir Szefs
10.08.2014 14:30
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What's Up 10.08.2014 Acquainting children with history.mp3
How to present knowledge about drastic events of a nation's past to its youngest? As usual, there are good and bad ways of doing this.
Warsaw Rising 1944 - thousands of civilians, including women and children, murdered by the SS in the Wola district massacre. photo: pl.wikipedia.org
Presented by Slawek Szefs with Agnieszka Bielawska
Much discussion and controversy has been raised by a new product of Cobi, a Polish company which came out with a set of blocks comparable to Lego which, besides barricades, includes figures of grinning insurgents and SS officers from the time of the tragic Warsaw Rising (see http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/177797,Rumpus-over-grinning-Warsaw-Rising-toys).
Opinions voiced by child psychologists run counter to arguments presented by the producer, to say the least.
We shall also follow affluent Poles who prefer the countryside to big city living.