© Alina Simmelbauer
© Ouriel Morgensztern
The project opened up new ways of remembrance of Jewish life. Jewish biographies from the Centropa archive were researched by young people and processed with artistic approaches in remembrance projects which included places of Jewish life and activity in the cities of Bielsko-Biała, Kielce, Belgrade, Berlin, and Mannheim. In this way, individually significant places whose Jewish history is not yet well-known were anchored and made visible in a European culture of remembrance.
The target group were young people from Germany, Poland, and Serbia. In close cooperation with the project partners Galicia Jewish Museum (Kraków), Center for Education Policy (Belgrade) and educators from Germany, they created remembrance activities with the help of artists. The transnational exchange between young people, which also presented the European scope of 20th century Jewish history, was central.
Activities such as performances, digital storytelling, graphic novels and city tours were developed by young people with the help of artists. Project ideas were developed in conferences and hybrid workshops, and the project's Instagram channel and digital exchange platform facilitate was an ongoing exchange. Over the course of the project, a touring exhibition on Jewish biographies was developed by participants at the three project sites. The remembrance activities developed by young people was also added to an AR app, anchoring the previously invisible places of Jewish life as new places of remembrance.
Cooperation partners:
Galicia Jewish Museum
Centre for Education Policy (CEP);
berlinHistory e.V.
Funding countries: Germany, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 01.08.2022 until 30.08.2024