Make Holocaust Education RELEVANT.
The visit to the 7XJUNGE exhibition was
an intensive and unique experience for our delegation.
This exhibition makes despotism,
public discrimination, terror, expulsion of personally experienced and illustrate
the characteristics of a dictatorship.
The exhibition is divided into seven
thematic areas which young people can identify: My room , my family , my store , my papers , my sport , my city , my music . In spacious, unobtrusive
and interactive experiential space adolescent realities are presented and
compared with the history.
The students were divided into 3
mixed groups (Germans, Polish, Israeli-Jews and Israeli-Arabian youth)
Each group went with a different
guide through the exhibition activities which were prepared specially to work
on the cultural diversity of the group, focusing in our exchange topic "Discrimination:
Watch out!"
The activities last for 4 intensive
hours.
The activities dealt with the topics:
The activities dealt with the topics:
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Individual discrimination
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Groups discrimination
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Actual and historical discrimination in Germany,
Poland and Israel (Nazism, Neo-Nazism, Price tag policy, European Islam-phobia, Anti-Semitism…etc)
Following an example of a workshop we made.
The mission was to build stills
pictures which describe an event in the daily youth life were they experienced
discrimination.
Following some student's stills.
Pic 1 negative: "Language barrier - oral discrimination"
Place: Schoolyard
Participants: One immigrant and two local youth.
Student's explanation for the picture:
A young new immigrant alone at the school yard, have no friends, new in the country, new culture, no language to communicate , feels the youth surrounding hostile …other students pointing at him from far and talking "beyond his back"
Place: Schoolyard
Participants: One immigrant and two local youth.
Student's explanation for the picture:
A young new immigrant alone at the school yard, have no friends, new in the country, new culture, no language to communicate , feels the youth surrounding hostile …other students pointing at him from far and talking "beyond his back"
Pic 1 positive: Solving the situation
Students explanation for the picture:
The students embrace the immigrant and make him part of the students friends circle…They teach the immigrant the local language and about the life in their country.
A remark of students:
"Nobody in our country cares of the immigrant integration"
Students explanation for the picture:
The students embrace the immigrant and make him part of the students friends circle…They teach the immigrant the local language and about the life in their country.
A remark of students:
"Nobody in our country cares of the immigrant integration"
Pic 2 negative: "Looking different – physical
discrimination"
Place: In the entrance of a night club
Participants: One boy and two local guards.
Students explanation for the picture:
A young man come to a night club. Because of his "physical look" the guards think he is an homosexual, neo-Nazi, …"a problem-maker". The guards prevent from him brutally to enter the club.
Participants: One boy and two local guards.
Students explanation for the picture:
A young man come to a night club. Because of his "physical look" the guards think he is an homosexual, neo-Nazi, …"a problem-maker". The guards prevent from him brutally to enter the club.
Pic 2 positive: Solving the situation
Students explanation for the picture:
The guards and the boy become close friends, the
guards let the boy enter the club and do not judge him because of his
"physical look"
Remarks of students:
"Who can tell who is a problem-maker? Just because his hair color…or his postures...or the way he dresses?
Is every blonde-haired person a Neo-Nazi? Is every Arab a terrorist? Is every Jew a rich person? These are attitudes with racist's ideological basis.
"Who can tell who is a problem-maker? Just because his hair color…or his postures...or the way he dresses?
Is every blonde-haired person a Neo-Nazi? Is every Arab a terrorist? Is every Jew a rich person? These are attitudes with racist's ideological basis.
Pic 3 negative: "Dressing different – cultural
discrimination"
Place: Street
Participants: 1 Muslim girl wearing a hijab (head cover) and 2 local boys
Participants: 1 Muslim girl wearing a hijab (head cover) and 2 local boys
Students explanation for the picture:
The boys look at the young Muslim girl with rejection because of prejudice ideas and concepts of her religion.
The boys look at the young Muslim girl with rejection because of prejudice ideas and concepts of her religion.
Pic 3 positive: Solving the situation
Students explanation for the picture:
Students explanation for the picture:
We are all friends, citizens of a
continent with open physical borders to all people no matter religion and
cultural differences.
Remarks of students:
"There is a wave of islamofobia in Europe because the Turkish and Middle-Eastern immigration. People don't want to include groups with different religion roots in the European Union. There's also a concept that a Muslim woman is oppressed by her religion"
"There is a wave of islamofobia in Europe because the Turkish and Middle-Eastern immigration. People don't want to include groups with different religion roots in the European Union. There's also a concept that a Muslim woman is oppressed by her religion"
Pic 4 negative: "Poverty and satiation– status
discrimination"
Place: Street
Participants: One homeless and two young
Participants: One homeless and two young
Students explanation
for the picture:
Young people walking in the streets meet an homeless. Instead of offering help, they laugh at him and critic his situation.
Young people walking in the streets meet an homeless. Instead of offering help, they laugh at him and critic his situation.
Pic 4 positive: Solving the situation
Students explanation for the picture:
Students explanation for the picture:
Young people with social
awareness helping the needed.
Remarks of students:
"There are lot of homeless in the street, people who lost their hope for life. It looks like nobody care. We live in an alienated society which empty the individual life from content."
"There are lot of homeless in the street, people who lost their hope for life. It looks like nobody care. We live in an alienated society which empty the individual life from content."