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    Thoughts, musings and ruminations.

    From May 27th until May 29th the project team of Entangled History was meeting for preparations at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz (MDSM). We were very glad to welcome MDSM as a new partner in our project consortium. Other partners are Krzyzowa Foundation, Institute...
    In 2019 and 2020 "Entangled History" will explore the topic of the Holocaust from multiple perspectives. Participants are going to be multipliers of youth work and young people aged between 15 and 19 from Germany, Poland and Ukraine. From May 27th until May 29th the project team is meeting for...
    In the last days of the Entangled History workshop the participants worked with Siergiii Kulchevych, anti-discrimination trainer of Anne Frank Haus in Amsterdam, on issues of contemporaty exclusion and discrimination experiences of youth in the different countries. Among others the participants...
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  • About

    SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

    "Entangled History as a perspective for non-formal education" is a series of events consisting of a training for youth workers and an international youth meeting. During the training 18 youth workers from Germany, Poland and Ukraine will meet in order to develop and modify methods for the historical and civic non-formal education viewed in the context of a growing diversity in our societies. Due to globalization and migration our societies in Europe become more and more diverse. The field of non-formal education must take this challenge and needs to integrate this diversity into its project formats. Old narratives need to be analyzed and challenged and multiple perspectives on historical events have to be included.

    The Holocaust as a focal point will be examined from multiple perspectives which will allow to draw conclusions on marginalized groups and discrimination in our current societies. Further goals of the project are the promotion of tolerance, giving an impulse to critical thinking as well as raising awareness towards diversity and against discrimination.

    During the training participants develop and modify methods that can be applied in the following international youth meeting as well as in the every day work of the youth workers.

     

    Upcoming events:

    - Preparatory meeting of the project team: 27.-29.5.2019 in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz

    - Training for multipliers of youth work from Poland, Germany and Ukraine: 7.-14.11.2019 in the IYMC in Krzyzowa/Kreisau and in the IYMC in Oświęcim/Auschwitz

    - Youth Meeting for young people aged between 15 and 19 from Poland, Germany and Ukraine: 23.2.-1.3.2020 in the IYMC in Krzyzowa/Kreisau and in the IYMC in Oświęcim/Auschwitz

     

    Here you can find more information on upcoming events and application!

     

  • Organizers and people

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    Kreisau-Initiative

    The Kreisau-Initiative e.V.was set up by East and West Berliners in the summer of 1989 – before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Its aim was to sponsor ideally and materially the set-up and maintenance of an international youth community centre and memorial in what was German Kreisau until 1945 and subsequently Polish Krzyżowa. We are represented on the boards of the Polish Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding and cooperate closely on concepts for and the implementation of projects in and around Kreisau/ Krzyżowa. As a non-governmental, non-profit organization we draw people’s attention to Kreisau in cooperation with our partners. Our liaison office in Berlin guarantees continuous and professional cooperation with the Kreisau Foundation, e.g., financing and organizing common projects such as events in Kreisau and Berlin. Through our public relations and networking, and our consulting and fund-raising we promote civil society engagement for the special “European locality of Kreisau/ Krzyżowa”. We have supported the German Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau financially since 2004 with the aim of securing the sustainable future of Kreisau. We have been awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal, the Marion Dönhoff prize and the German Unification prize, and been honoured by other organizations for our committment. You too can support our work by becoming a member of the Kreisau Initiative e.V. or by making a donation.

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    The Krzyzowa Foundation

    The Krzyzowa Foundation is a politically independent, non-profit organisation. All revenues are reinvested into the workings of the Foundation and the maintenance of the Youth Meeting Centre. The bodies of the Foundation- Supervisory and Foundation Boards as well as the working committees- work on a voluntary basis. The services and programmes offered in Krzyzowa are facilitated by an international and multilingual team with long-standing experience in the field of inter-cultural youth work.

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    Our Team

    Carolin Wenzel - project coordination

    Carolin is a program manager “Contemporary History and Human Rights” at Kreisau-Initiative. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural History of Central and Eastern Europe from the University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Her current focus of work lies in human rights education, contemporary history education, Jewish and Polish history and its cultures of remembering.

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    Merle Schmidt - project coordination

    Merle is a project manager at the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre in Berlin. She holds a Master's degree in Intercultural Communication Studies from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She organizes and implements international youth meetings on political-historical education.

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    Lidia Zessin-Jurek

    Lidia is a project coordinator for the Institute of Applied History, Frankfurt/Oder. She is a historian working on memory cultures in East Central Europe. She studied at the University of Łódź and the European University Institute in Florence. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the various institutions, including the Imre-Kertesz Kolleg in Jena. The Institute of Applied History is a non-profit organization funded in 2001 at the European University Viadrina to promote a dialogue between academia and civil society at the Polish-German borderland.

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    Olha Kolesnyk

    Olha Kolesnyk represents the Ukrainian Center for the Holocaust Studies in Kyiv. She is a historian and a doctoral student at the University of Warsaw, where she is working on her thesis about Sovietization processes in Western Ukraine during 1939-1941. She studied at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Ukrainian Catholic University. She cooperates with the Ukrainian Center for the Holocaust Studies in translating testimonies and articles as well as interpreting during the annual educational seminars on the history of the Holocaust in Poland and Western Ukraine.

  • Network and partners

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    Environmental Education Center (E.E.C.)

    The Environmental Education Center is a public institution established in 1999 and numbers 5 persons in its staff as well as tenths of partner institutions and individual collaborators. Among its goals are to design & implement educational programs for students of Primary & Secondary Education, implement study visits for educators and general adult population. In addition, it organizes and conducts General Adult Education Meetings, Teacher Training Meetings, Workshops and Seminars. Participation in networks, partnership building, promotion of educational research and educational material publication are also some of the tasks, just to name a few.

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    Inter Alia

    Inter Alia is a non-governmental organisation based in Athens that aims at deconstructing stereotypes between people as a prerequisite of conflict management and resolution, raising public awareness of current issues, applying pressure to EU mechanisms and integrating fragmented knowledge into a fruitful scheme through multidisciplinary approaches.

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    The initiative with WINGS and ROOTS

    The initiative with WINGS and ROOTS based in Berlin and New York, the crossmedia and multilingual initiative produces films, educational curricula, and online-platforms. We use these tools to challenge rigid and exclusionary, debates and historical perceptions around the topics of integration, migration and identity. Centering the stories and perspectives of young people with the motto "reimagine belonging," we foreground participation and dismantling racism to foster more inclusive societies. The project was initiated by Christina Antonakos-Wallace in 2006 and has grown over the years to an active team of over 20 filmmakers, educators, designers, academics and programmers, as well as partners and advisers in the U.S. and Germany.

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    Educational Activities Society

    EDRASE ( is a Non for profit company that was founded in 2010. The seat is in Halki island, Dodecanese in Greece, but the members and the activities are spread all over Greece.

    The main aim is to promote Science and Social Sciences in Greece and the EU, by the means of training courses, lectures, discussions and the production of educational material. To this end, there is a close co-operation with bodies such as the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Environment and climate change, and also IKY, the Greek national Erasmus+ agent.

    EDRASE has a great experience on distance learning, organising and implementing a variety of training courses, supported by highly experienced partners.

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    Young Journalists' Association 'Polis'

    Young Journalists' Association 'Polis' was established in 1995 in Warsaw, Poland. Organization aims to help young people and their teachers to overcome passivity and helplessness – to discover, express and share the ethos of Human Rights and the vocation to participate in policy making and public life. Main field of interest and action are: civic journalism, training in responsible media work and use. 'Polis' cultivates contacts with school papers, local and national press. Organization is a member of the European Youth Press, Mediattivo Europe and Human Rights House networks.

     

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    The Remembrance and Future Center

    The Remembrance and Future Center was founded in 2007 in Wrocław. The task of this public cultural institution is to popularize knowledge about the history and cultural heritage of the inhabitants of the so-called “Western and Northern Territories” after World War II. The Center conducts a series of exhibition and education projects. It also publishes a popular-science magazine and post conference books. In 2016 the Center will coordinate two main exhibitions during the European Capital of Culture: “Seven Wonders of Wroclaw and Lower Silesia” and “Wroclaw 1945-2015”. The second one will take place in the Depot history center, our new home.

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    Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoznica

    Since 1970s former Gross-Rosen concentration camp was turned into Gross-Rosen Museum. The responsibility for the camp was transferred to the Historical Museum in Wroclaw, which began to collect documents and artefacts about the camp's history. The Wroclaw museum rebuilt the SS casino in 1978-1982 to house a new exhibition and film screening room. In 1989, at the urging of camp survivors and local authorities, the Gross Rosen site was given the status of a state museum, which, however, it only held until 1999, when the responsibility returned to the provincial level. The museum provides information about the period of Second World War, national socialism and resistance and insurgents in the camp.

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    Insitute for Applied History

    History is created – here and now. How history is shaped, negotiated and constructed, stands at the heart of work at the Institute for Applied History. The Institute mediates in many ways between academia and civil society, between different languages, cultures and generations, between theory and practice. For that purpose, the associatons has developed various formats and methods of historical-political education in the German-Polish border region. Clues at historic sites for international groups and project seminars at the European University Viadrina as well as engaging artistic approaches to a diffiult past: Expanding its actiities beyond the Polish-German neighbourhood the Institute is now also an important agent in raising awareness for the compleities of history and its application in other (border) regions of Europe.

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    ChangeLog Foundation

    ChangeLog Foundation was established in 2013 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine by few young and dynamic people experienced in local and international projects organization and management on professional and volunteer basis. The aims of the organization are: Providing society with a various types of the volunteer assistance (individual and group) at the local level and development of the volunteer movement in Ukraine and Implementation of socially important initiatives and projects in the spheres of conflict resolutions, non-formal education, environmental protection, and preservation of the historical and cultural heritage, youth work.

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    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies

    The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS) was established in 2002. It is a non-governmental organization founded in partnership with I. Kuras Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The main directions of the UCHS's activities embrace Holocaust research and Holocaust education. The research direction comprises regional aspects of the Holocaust on Ukrainian lands; reflection of the Holocaust in the mass-media of the Nazi-occupied Ukraine; Nazi ideology and the mechanisms of its implementation, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, comparative research of the Holocaust and other cases of genocide. The UCHS holds scholarly conferences and seminars on these issues.

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    International Youth Meeting Center in

    Oświęcim/Auschwitz

    The International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz is an educational institution whose campus lies between the center of the Polish city of Oświęcim and the former German concentration camp of Auschwitz. More than one million persons, mostly Jewish and Polish, were murdered at Auschwitz during the Second World War (1939–1945). Proposed in 1971, the Center was opened in 1986 following years of planning, negotiations, and fundraising.[2][3] It seeks to "develop the understanding of National Socialism and its consequences, particularly among young Germans, through dialogue and encounter between people of different origins", and is particularly engaged with Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews.[4] In 2010, the Center hosted more than 17,000 overnight stays by youth groups participating in its programs.[5] Many young Germans and Austrians have held year-long voluntary positions at the Center that satisfy their civilian service (Zivildienst) responsibility.

    The Polish and German names for the Center are Międzynarodowy Dom Spotkań Młodzieży w Oświęcimiu and Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte in Oświęcim/Auschwitz, respectively; the two names are conjoined in the abbreviation MDSM/IJBS for the Center.

  • Handbook

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    Methodological handbook "Histoire Croisée" as a perspective for non-formal education

    The project’s outcome is an online handbook containing all selected methods that present information regarding Polish-German and German-Greek history from an entangled historical approach.

     

  • Sponsors

    This project is co-financed by the European Union programme Erasmus +, by the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the Polish-German Youth Office and Sanddorf-Stiftung.

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  • Connect With Us

    PROJECT COORDINATION
    Ms Carolin Wenzel
    Kreisau-Initiative e.V.
    E-Mail: wenzel@kreisau.de
    Phone: +49 (0)30 53836363

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