project NEIGHBOURS WHO DISAPPEARED

We would like to introduce project of the Jewish Museum in Prague: The project Tribute to the Child Holocaust Victims follows in suit of the project Neighbours Who Disappeared. Similarly to the latter it addresses young people aged 12 – 18 and proposes that they work independently on the stories of people who lived with their neighbors in harmony until WW II. and who were then mostly marked, restricted, persecuted, and finally liquidated. This project’s topic, however, is in the first place the life of the WW II. students and children in the same schools children go to today, and what were the reasons for their sudden departure.
The exhibition is travelling now through Europe, Slovak Republic in Czech language, UK, Ireland in English, Germany in Germain and we are preparing a traveling through Romania and Italy.
The project is supported by The Forgotten Ones association.

METHODOLOGY FOR PRINTING RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES THE INTRODUCTION INFO ABOUT THE CZ PROJECT IDEAS FOR WORKING GROUPS EXHIBITION LESSONS ACCOMPANYING ACTIVITIES FOLLOVING ACTIVITIES SOURCES OF INFORMATION TOPICS TEN COMMANDMENTS RESULTS OF THE PROJECT PREPARING THE MATERIALS THE ORIGINAL APPEAL THE IMPORTANCE OF A LINK BETWEEN TWO GENERATIONS 1939 - 1941 THE NUREMBERG LAWS	RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES FOR THE REALISATION OF THE TRIBUTE TO THE CHILD HOLOCAUST VICTIMS PROJECT These recommendations are based on the experience of schools that took part in the project in the previous years. Some activities are suitable for all age groups of students, some only for the younger ones and some only for the older ones. We chose to distinguish these categories with colours: Blue - suitable for high schools Red - suitable for 7th to 9th grades of elementary schools Green - suitable for all categories The project can start with an invitation to the exhibition. Twenty portable roll-up panels of both the Neighbours Who Disappeared and The Tribute to Child Holocaust Victims exhibitions can be easily installed in halls, libraries, school corridors etc. in less than half an hour. We will gladly provide a small group of students with basic instructions and information which will allow them to serve as guides through the exhibition. These are the individual activities for researcher groups: * introduction to the history of the persecution of Jews during the Second World War in the context of Czech and global history - in history classes, school seminars or by visiting the Education and Cultural Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague * film screenings * reading recommended literature * finding former schoolmates in records and chronicles (aimed at the academic year 1939/40 when Jewish students were banned from attending schools) * confronting the collected information with the Terezín Memorial book * visiting the nearest memorial, synagogue, cemetery, Jewish quarter or memorial plaque of Jewish victims (can be placed near synagogues, cemeteries, or a concentration area, sometimes also dedicated to fallen resistance fighters) * familiarising with the Nuremberg laws and their enforcement (see www.jewishmuseum.cz, www.holocaust.cz, www.neztratitviru.cz) * studying material in your a local archive (chronicles, contemporary periodicals etc.) * contacting your school's former students from the late pre-war time and obtaining as much information possible to describe the contemporary time, society and individual * contacting living contemporaries or their children, interviewing them * finding out about the fates of your Jewish schoolmates in the following years * collecting interviews, archive materials, photographs and information, preparation of your final work

RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES