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Snapshots of history
Start date: Aug 1, 2013,

“Snapshots of history” youth exchange will gather 26 participants from 5 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 through replicating historic postcards and making photos of modern look of same places, discovering stories and histories behind photographed places, interaction of different minorities of this multi-cultural city, and making a photo exhibition. The exchange program and exhibition will cover such places as Metropolitan residence becoming university and UNESCO world heritage site, Jewish temple becoming cinema, national houses of ethnic minorities, historic cemeteries, area which was Ghetto during WW2, town districts which were populated by different ethnic groups etc. The program of the exchange, and the exhibition will reflect special feature of the city - its multi-ethnic and multi-cultural history and community: stories of Jewish, Polish, Romanian-Moldovan, German-Austrian, Ukrainian life in Chernivtsi, as well as 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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