Projekt „New views on history“
History teachers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Germany develop lesson plans on the Nazi war of extermination
The 20 history teachers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Germany participating in the project "New views on history" developed four lesson plans based on memories of Soviet prisoners of war, survivors of the burnt villages from Belarus and Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Ukraine. They were supported by the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, the NGOs "STAN" from Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine), "Interra" from Krasnoyarsk (Russia) and "Verständigung" from Minsk (Belarus) as well as KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI.
The memoirs of Nazi victims offer pupils the opportunity to deal with Nazi crimes in the Second World War through a biographical approach and to learn about the war in the occupied territory of the former Soviet Union from the perspective of an ordinary person. The Nazi ideology and the manifold crimes based on it, as well as their horrifying cruelty, density and interconnectedness, can be dealt with particularly vividly by means of the "Operation 'Barbarossa'". In addition to the letters of the Nazi victims, which come from the archives of KONTAKT-KOHTAKTbI and the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, exhibits from the permanent exhibition of the museum, the memorial Ehrenhain Zeithain and picture sources from the Belarusian State Archive were also included in the lesson plans.
Webseite
https://kontakte-kontakty.de/new-views-on-history/
Country
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany
Runtime
2019-2021
Project results
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