Aktuelle Debatte in German Newspaper “taz”: Holocaust-Remembrance as a religion?

Das Holocaust-Gedenken ist zu einer Art Religion geworden.

Pilgerfahrt nach Auschwitz

KOMMENTAR VON IRIS HEFETS

in: die tageszeitung 9.3.2010

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Protected: Protocol of Preparatory Meeting of Neuengamme Seminar

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Deutsche Bahn und deutsche Erinnerungskultur

“Die “Deutsche Bahn AG” beteiligt sich mit einer “Leistungsschau des Eisenbahnbaus” am Jubiläumsjahr und präsentiert die hakenkreuzgeschmückte “Reichsbahn”-Lok E 19 12 – ein “Glanzlicht der Eisenbahngeschichte”, heißt es am Auschwitz-Gedenktag auf der Website des Unternehmens. Diese innerdeutsche Leugnung der Verbrechenszusammenhänge und die außenpolitische Ehrung der Verbrechensopfer erfolgen parallel. Die Gleichzeitigkeit kann erklären, warum das deutsche Potenzial nationalistischer Rassisten ständig zunimmt, aber weltweit als unbedeutend gilt,”¬† heißt es in einem Artikel von german-foreign-policy.

Weiter hier:   http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57724

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Press article about students’ missing motivation to learn about the holocaust

An interesting press article refers¬†a study that¬†identifies¬†the problem¬†of students’ motivation to learn about the holocaust in the lack of¬†constructing a¬†connection with the students’ present.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/jobkarriere/129/501385/text/

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Lernort Auschwitz und Krakau: Reader

Daniel Eisenmenger hat in seinem Blog einen Reader wieder veröffentlicht, der aus einer Fortbildung für junge Lehrer(innen) und Referenrade hervorgegangen ist, den das Deutsch-Polnische Jugendwerk und die Robert-Bosch-Stiftung durchgeführt haben.

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A new article on Holocaust Commemoration in Germany in DIE ZEIT

Topcu, Özlem; Wefing, Heinrich: “‘Bist du Jude?’ In: DIE ZEIT Nr. 4; 21.1.2010.

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An Interesting Article about Memory Sites in the Digital Age

Demokratische Erinnerung

Der Streit um die Stiftung “Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung” zeigt:

Ein zentrales und repräsentatives Gedenken passt nicht ins digitale Zeitalter

Dies ist das Fazit des Artikels von Pit Fiedler in der Taz vom 7.1.10

http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/kommentar/artikel/1/demokratische-erinnerung/

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Welcome to the TeacMem Project’s Website

Welcome!

This is the Web presentation of the International Project “TeacMem.
Developing Competence-Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories”,
a joint venture of Institutions in the Fields of History Didactics, Research in Public Historical Memory, Teacher Training and Secondary Schools in Denmark, Germany and Norway.

The project is funded by the COMENIUS program of the European Union, EACEA devision. It runs from October 2009 to September 2012.

Its far goal is to introduce into history teaching at schools the complex of public memory and remembrance of the National Socialist Germany’s politics and atrocities towards people livining in resp. coming from Scandinavia and their countries, and the ways these parts of the mutual (i.e. shared and divided) of history (especially Scandinavians’ imprisonment in German Concentration camps, German Ocupation of Denmark and Norway) are being remembered within the participating countries.

To this end, the project ventures to bring together teachers, teacher trainers, museum and memorial educators from the participating countries and to enable them to share and exchange their mutual (again: shared and divided) perspectives on the subjects and the traditions as well als debates and developments in learning about these subjects.

Next to these tri-national and inter-professional encounters and exchanges of experiences with and perspectives on learning processes regarding these aspects, which will be organised in the form of three international seminars, groups of participants, again mixed as to their country and profession, will develop material packs and teaching concepts, at first for further teacher training within the participating countries, which later on wil resp. can be used for developing teaching and learning concepts for pupils. For these developmentarl processes, online-cooperation is used.

On these web-sites, information on the project is presented both for the members of the project and for the public. The site isa combines blog and static presentation.

Some pages and blog-entries are for project participants only and thus not visible for outside visitors.

A Project Presentation

  1. Aims of the Project/Project Description
  1. Project Partners
    1. Partner Institutions
    2. Persons
  2. Steering Committee
  3. Project’s Proceedings and Agenda
  4. Current Developments

Hamburg, Decemer 2009

Andreas Körber

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Press Article: Christian Semler: Der Staat und die Erinnerung. taz. 23.12.2009

The German (“alternative”) newspaper “die tageszeitung” (taz) published a commentary by Christian Semler today on the debate around the project to install a “Center against displacements” (Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen) promoted by the German “association of displaced” (“Bund der Vertriebenen“) headed by Erika Steinbach and on the role of the state in the plans to institutionalize this:

http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/kommentar/artikel/1/der-staat-und-die-erinnerung/

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Some Materials: International Task Force

  1. Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

  2. ITF: Guidelines for Teaching
    1. Why Teach About the Holocaust
    2. What to Teach About the Holocaust
    3. How to Teach About the Holocaust
    4. Guidelines for Study Trips to Holocaust-Related Authentic and Non-Authentic Sites
    5. Revised Guidelines on Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites
    6. Preparing Holocaust Memorial Days: Suggestions for Educators
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