The timing could hardly have been more appropriate. Just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, ninth-graders from the Offene Schule had prepared guided tours of places commemorating the persecution of the Jewish population of Babenhausen during the Third Reich. After taking over stations on this topic for the public city tour last year on the anniversary of the November pogroms, this time their fellow students were the target audience. At selected stations, the young people from the Erasmus project group at the Offene Schule, led by Heike Vogel, provided information about individual fates, but also about general topics related to the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich. The 14- to 15-year-olds showed great interest in the topic from the very beginning. After the tours, the group visited the Anne Frank House educational centre in Frankfurt.
The project that gave rise to the city tour deals generally with questions of preserving tradition and memory in a European context. As part of the Erasmus project funded by the European Commission, some students already had the opportunity in October to explore key moments in Portuguese history, such as the Carnation Revolution, which still shape Lisbon's memory today.
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| Near the old synagoge of Babenhausen |
