Supervision: Zuzana Tlášková,
zuzana.tlaskova@jewishmuseum.cz
lecturer in topics relating to anti-Semitism and the Shoah
Education and Culture Center of the JMP -
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implementation of preparation workshops:
The Holocaust in Documents
Five working groups have the task of analyzing five documents – each from
different stages of the Holocaust: labeling/ categories of people,
expatriation, deportation, concentration, liquidation.
Reflections - Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers and Others
Is it possible to clearly differentiate between these groups? The answer
should be found by viewing a selection of photographs and hearing the
stories of individuals who lived at the time of the Holocaust.
Hana´s Suitcase – a newly established interactive programme for elementary
and high schools, based on work involving Karen Levinová’s book Hanin kufřík
/ Hana’s Suitcase (published by Portál in association with the Jewish Museum
in Prague, 2003). On the basis of their own document searches and subsequent
discussions with Holocaust survivors, participants of the programme should
become acquainted with the fates relating to individual persons from the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and from Slovakia during the Second
World War. One of the outcomes of the programme is the participants’
separate project work in which, on the basis of the facts discovered and
using their own imagination, they try to describe the personal stories of
specific individuals.
Methodology and coordination: Marta Vančurová,
martavan@gmail.com
The Forgotten Ones -
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- initiator of the project in 1999
(coordination and building of the project as a coworker of Education and
Culture Center of the JMP 1997-2004,
founder of the NGO Forgotten Ones in 2002 with a goal to support of the
Neighbours Who Disappeared project
(now working for this association),
- author of motivation materials for the project Neighbours Who Disappeared
- facilitator, consultant and coordinator for individual school projects
about the project
“Neighbours Who Disappeared” Project
(started in 1999 under the auspices of the Office of the president Vaclav
Havel)
The Education and Culture Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague (ECC JMP) in
collaboration with its project partner Forgotten NGO, with a support of the
Terezín Memorial, Hidden Child, Czech Federation of Jewish Communities,
invite anyone interested to participate in a unique project called
“Neighbours Who Disappeared”. This project is a social phenomenon of the
Czech Republic. In the light of strong assimilation of the Jewish population
till 1939 and following radical change and in the shade of the period
1945-1989, which did not care of the gradual devastation of historic sights
and religious life, the path on vanishing traces of local Jewish settlement
might for young people become a find of special context. The goal of the
project is to offer the students aged 12 – 18 new questions on the basis of
first-hand information within a certain lokality and a period of World War
II. . These questions are regarding the fate of people who were part of life
in Czech and Moravian municipalities and who suddenly disappeared from the
close neighborhoods of past generations.
The survey of the project development: The first collection was published
in October 2000. The authors of the contributions were appraised at Prague
Castle by former president Vaclav Havel.The first film was shown on Czech
Television (ČT1) in 2001. On the basis of shooting the film an exhibition of
the students’ works is proposed. Due to interest and demand, six versions of
this exhibition are created and they become part of international workshops
Holocaust in Education in Terezin and other conferences and important events
Twelve boards of the exhibition started a tour in Prague where the
exhibition was opened in the Valdstejn Palace in June 2000 under the
auspices of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.Together with
complementary methodical material the exhibition become a part of a
long-term, non-profit-making educational project. Beyond the expectations of
its authors, the project has become the motivation to deal with further
author long-term projects on the position of an individual in an extreme
situation, the period of World War II and reflections on these events from
the standpoint of young people today etc. In June 2004 new participants in
the project were appraised at an international meeting by Debora Lipstadt,
Arnošt Lustig and Leo Pavlát, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague and in
June 2005 a new stage of the Project called A Tribute to Child Holcaust
Victims was officially pronounced.. The guarantors of the project are
Arnošt Lustig and Zdeněk Zboril (Institute of Political Science of the
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague).
The Neighbours Who Disappeared project is enabled thanks to special condition
of a Czech history before War Word II. and 50 years after, cemeteries and
synagogues abandoned or hidden until today’s, schools with a need to build
their own identity destroyed in a past, a need of a building of a new
school system and rules, the seminars How to teach about Holocaust and
thanks to the close cooperation between Education and Culture Center of the
Jewish Museum in Prague – Terezin Memorial – Czech Teachers – Czech Students
– Jewish Communities and Czech NGOs.
