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 - 21 and proposes that they work independently on the stories of people who lived with their neighbors in harmony until WWII 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 WWII students and children in the same schools children go to today. The output should be a memorial tablet permanently placed in school. Copy of that is often a part of a regional exhibition and can become a part of a new national traveling exhibition (until there will be a capacity for that).
The beginning of the project is often based on the list of those, who had to leave schools in 1938 - 1940 founded at school archives. What were the reasons for their sudden departure? Did somebody miss them? Did somebody help them before the transport? What was it like to be restricted, concentrated ….and if they have had a chance to come back? The preparation of the best pilot projects took more than several months and is enabled thanks to lot of voluntarily teachers and students work. Exhibitions and local projects are influencing people standing around (families, schools, state representatives etc.)
Education ond Culture Center of the Jewish Museum in Prague - Miroslava Ludvíková,
miroslava.ludvikova@jewishmuseum.cz
The Forgotten Ones - Marta Vančurová,
martavan@gmail.com
