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Myth Czernowitz
Start date: Mar 1, 2014,

“Myth Czernowitz” youth exchange will gather 21 participants from 4 countries in Chernivtsi, with aim to inspire and educate about history and multi-culturalism in a creative way. Participants will study history of the city and try to understand special cultural phenomenon – Myth Chernivtsi in the past and now – by interviewing young and elderly people about how they see the city in the past and now, collecting interesting family stories and local events, making pictures of historic places related to these families and stories and preparing exhibition with collected materials and interviews.The exchange activities and exhibition will cover such places as Metropolitan residence becoming university and UNESCO world heritage site, Jewish temple becoming cinema, area which was Ghetto during WW2, poets and writers as Rose Auslaender, Eliezer Steinbarg and Paul Celan, famous artists, singers and scientists who were born in the city and contributed to cultural Myth Chernivtsi. The program of the exchange, and the exhibition will reflect special feature of the city - its multi-ethnic and multi-cultural history and community, interaction between different ethnic groups (as Trayan Popovici case when Romanian mayor saved almost 20 000 Jews, and Jewish girl Miriam Taylor surviving ghetto in Chernivtsi, or Romanian and Turkish mass graves at the Jewish cemetery etc). The project, exhibition and its materials will also contribute to promotion of Youth in Action programme, and improving quality of international youth activities in its framework.
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