Last Prisoner Story goes on
Start date: Aug 1, 2012,
“Last prisoner story goes on” youth exchange will gather groups of young people from Germany, Austria, Italy, Ukraine in a town of Konstantinovka, Ukraine. During 2 weeks in August 26 participants will work on the theme of 2nd World War as common European history, connection between history and common European problem as racism and xenophobia; discovering and recording stories of people who were forced labour or prisoners of concentration camps and preparing interactive readings of these memories. The foundation are diaries and stories of 2 forced workers from Ukraine, and one German forced worker, which were discovered in Konstantinovka and 20 other interviews recorded in 2010. Participants will record and interview stories of people, have educational workshops, exchange and debates on the project topics, work on internet blog http://lastprisonengl.blogspot.com with interviews of people and collected materials, prepare interactive readings with debriefing as methodology for further use of collected memories and interviews, and visit memorial places of 2nd World war. The outcomes of the project will include increased knowledge and competencies of participants, blog with materials and interviews, scanned photos and documents, interactive readings as new educational methods and tools based on the collected materials, focusing on remembrance and reconciliation, as well as combating racism and xenophobia. The blog, interactive readings methodology and materials will also contribute to promotion of Youth in Action programme, and imrpoving quality of international youth activities in its framework.
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