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REMEMBERING
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

REMEMBERING is a multimedia-storytelling-project. Young people from Israel and Germany speak about their personal relation to the Holocaust. On a website they will tell the biographies of their great-grandparents andshow how the 4th generation remembers the Holocaust today. 18 young adults at the age from 16 to 23 from Israel and Germany can take part in the project. We intend to find the participants in cooperation with schools, universities and NGOs. We aim for representing the social diversity – young adults with an immigrant background, German Jews and Arab Israelis are welcome. The gender aspect is also balanced. Furthermore, Remembering is a youth exchange. To get to know each other and the everyday lives of one’s counterpart, the participants will visit each other in Israel and Germany. During the project the participants answer the central question: What relevance does the Holocaust hold for their day-to-day life and their political understanding? Focal point is the history of their great-grandparents, which will be represented and reflected in short films. A visual pinboard grows of the participants‘ or their greatgrandparents‘ biographical fragments. The pinboard documents an active examination of the Holocaust and will ideally create a dialogue among the participants. We aim to present the short films at film festivals (outside competition) and in other media. For the premiere the young participants will be invited to Israel or Germany. A website will document the course and results of the project, along with interviews and short clips of the everyday life of the participants. The young people get to know each other during a first meeting in Germany, during the course of the project they can communicate via an internal blog. A meeting in Israel will complete the project. To make the project as successful as possible, we will hold several workshops in Israel and Germany. We will provide an overview over the central questions in the current Holocaust research and the national discourses of memory. The workshops will be led by historians and educationalists. The workshops take place at the ABC Training and Conference Centre in Drochtersen-Hüll as well as in the International Meeting Center Beit Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem. In the workshops an Israeli and a German team will teach the basics of camerawork, audio-engineering and cutting techniques and give an introduction in documentary filmmaking and multimedia storytelling. At this point, first videos, audios and texts will be produced. During the course of the project, the organizers and participants will stay in touch on-site, via an internal onlineplatform and by telephone. The organizers discuss interim results and give assistance if needed. A multi-day youth exchange in Israel forms the conclusion of the project. The presentation of the website, the resulting short films and an evaluation of the project are the main issues of the meeting. The project always keeps its focus on the participants. The organizers will stay in the background, but will present interim results and in-depth information in a public blog. Guest contributions are possible. In addition, a documentary will be created.
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