Kreisau-Initiative e.V.

Uprooted – (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II

Uprooted – (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II

The research and educational project Uprooted - (Hi)Stories of Stolen Children during World War II dealt with children who were abducted from Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and other countries to Germany during the Second World War and forcibly “Germanized” there.

With the story of these children, Uprooted encouraged a critical examination of the racist and inhuman National Socialist ideology and emphasized the case for children's rights.

An educational project not only for pupils

The project produced a publication with scientific contributions on the topic. Educational materials was developed in a second step. The topic was intended to appeal especially to pupils and students, but was also aimed at teachers and youth workers, academics, journalists and the broad interested public. The digital learning platform created as part of the project is aimed at teachers and trainers who want to discuss the history of stolen children and violations of children's rights today with young people.

The Kreisau-Initiative

The Kreisau-Initiative creates learning and encounter spaces to allow young people in particular to shape a democratic, mutually supportive and sustainable coexistence in Europe. The association's areas of work are contemporary history and human rights, inclusion as well as socio-ecological transformation.

Data Sheet

Project partners:

Stiftung Kreisau für Europäische Verständigung, Polen
Post Bellum, Tschechien
Tolerspace Kyiv Educational Center, Ukraine

Duration: 01.11.2021 until 31.12.2022

uprootedchildren.eu

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Education Agenda NS-Injustice

The Magazine of the Education Agenda NS-InjusticeThe Magazine of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice

The Education Agenda NS-Injustice started in autumn 2021 with two certainties: Firstly, the survivors are passing away; there are few chances today to meet eyewitnesses who can tell us first-hand about the atrocities committed by the National Socialists. Secondly, we are increasingly entering contexts in which boundaries between fiction and fact are blurred. Under these conditions, we are dependent on new ways of learning and innovative forms of conveyance in our critical examination of National Socialist injustice and in historical-political educational work. In the magazine we present the funding program, projects and current debates.

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Interview

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In our format "Three questions for..." Project Manager Eugenie Khatschatrian gives us an insight into the project "Who were the victims of the National Socialists?"

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