The Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship will send a letter to the Minister of Education, Barbara Nowacka, about the right place for knowledge about the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919 in history books, Anna Parzyńska-Paschke, the spokeswoman for the Marshal, to PAP on Wednesday.
The Ministry of National Education has begun pre-consultations on changes to the core curriculum of general education. The purpose of the planned changes is to limit the mandatory scope of educational content. The narrowed core curriculum will apply from the 2024/2025 school year.
According to the current proposal for changes in the history curriculum taught in secondary schools and technical schools, the basic content would include a section on the origins of the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919 and its importance for the rebirth of the Polish state and the defense of its independence in 1920. The process of shaping Poland’s border with Germany would continue to be debated, including the Greater Poland Uprising, the Silesian Uprisings and plebiscites.
The expanded scope would include a point on ways to commemorate the heroism of the Poles, following the example of: Museum of the Greater Poland Uprising 1918–1919. The expanded scope would include content related to the phenomenon of the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919 and its importance for the course of the struggle for Poland’s borders and independence.
For years we have been striving for a national memory of the Greater Poland Uprising and we are leaving our mark on the consciousness of Poles about our victorious uprising in Greater Poland, without limiting ourselves territorially. We are confident that the community of the Greater Poland Independence Museum and the 1918/1919 Greater Poland Uprising Remembrance Society will speak out immediately and decisively on this issue, and we will support such a call.
– Anna Parzyńska-Paschke told PAP.
We hope that the same group that successfully tried to establish December 27 as a public holiday – the National Day of the Victorious Uprising of Greater Poland – will speak out. Well-trained specialists in this field will provide the Ministry with the best and strongest arguments, so that when creating a new core curriculum, comprehensive knowledge about our Wielkopolska and national success is assured.
– she added.
The spokeswoman announced that Marshal Marek Woźniak will send a letter to Minister Barbara Nowacka on this issue, asking to give the Greater Poland Uprising a worthy place in the history books. She also recalled that a ceremony laying the cornerstone for the construction of the new headquarters of the Museum of the Uprising of Greater Poland 1918-1919 will take place in Poznań on Friday.
The director of the Greater Poland Independence Museum, Przemysław Terlecki, expressed the hope that the proposed changes regarding knowledge about the Greater Poland Uprising in the core curriculum are just an accident at work.
We did not strive for a new public holiday, we did not use a lot of public money to build a new Museum of the Uprising of Greater Poland, so that we could now calmly accept the news of an attempt to quell one of the few victorious national uprisings marginalize in the world. our history. In two days we will celebrate the 105th anniversary of the Trier armistice, formally ending the victorious uprising and approving the insurgents’ territorial gains. On this day we solemnly lay the foundation stone for the construction of the new museum headquarters. I cannot imagine that this great joy of victory, important for the fate of the entire reborn homeland, would be dominated by a discussion about the meaning of educating young Poles about such a beautiful, noble and, above all, victorious history.
— Przemysław Terlecki told PAP.
The director of the Greater Poland Independence Museum was one of the initiators of establishing a new state holiday.
Museum of the Greater Poland Uprising
The New Museum of the Greater Poland Uprising 1918-1919, a modern facility with a permanent exhibition covering an area of 3,000 m2. m2 will be built in the area of Wzgórze św. Wojciech. The museum will consist of four buildings and an underground part where a permanent exhibition will take place. Interested parties can visit the completed museum in December 2026. The exhibition will not only depict the course of the armed act itself, but also show what happened before it and what the effects and consequences of Greater Poland Victoria were. The story told in the new museum continues to this day.
The Greater Poland Uprising broke out on December 27, 1918 in Poznań. The date of its end is February 16, 1919, when Germany and the Entente countries signed an armistice in Trier. Provisions favorable to Poland regarding the end of the Polish-German conflict, especially the Greater Poland Uprising, were added to the new armistice. Ultimately, Greater Poland’s membership in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles concluded on June 28, 1919.
From 2021, December 27 is National Day of the Victorious Uprising in Greater Poland. This holiday commemorates Poland’s victorious uprising against the Germans in 1918-1919. The Sejm passed a law establishing a new holiday on October 1, and the Senate unanimously supported it on October 28. The law was a legislative initiative of President Andrzej Duda. It was a response to the voices of community representatives, patriotic activists and local authorities from Greater Poland.
The idea of establishing a state holiday came together with: the Greater Poland Independence Museum, the Kórnickie Works Foundation, the National Museum in Poznań, the Poznań Branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, the Association for the Commemoration of the Uprising of Greater Poland 1918–1919 and the Association of Municipalities and Districts of Greater Poland.
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Source: wPolityce