Open borders, open minds
An unserem COMENIUS Projekt sind eine englische, eine polnische, eine slowenische und eine deutsche Schule beteiligt. Das COMENIUS Projekt soll bei den Schülern sowohl ein Bewusstsein für die europäische Geschichte und die Traditionen in Europa schaffen, als auch das Verhältnis ihrer eigenen Kultur und Geschichte zu der der Partnerländer beleuchten. Die Verbindungen zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Ost und West, alt und jung sollen erforscht und entwickelt werden.
Projektsprache ist englisch.
Projektsprache ist englisch.
What does the title stand for?
In 2007 the Schengen Agreement came into force and opened the borders between Slovenia and Poland and the countries of western Europe. The title “Open Borders - Open Minds” reflects this significant development, and defines the principles of how these partner schools aim to develop in their students an awareness of the history and traditions of Europe, how their culture relates to other cultures in their own or in other countries, and how that relationship has changed within living memory, as the European Union has evolved. Links between past and present, east and west, and old and young will be explored and developed.
In 2007 the Schengen Agreement came into force and opened the borders between Slovenia and Poland and the countries of western Europe. The title “Open Borders - Open Minds” reflects this significant development, and defines the principles of how these partner schools aim to develop in their students an awareness of the history and traditions of Europe, how their culture relates to other cultures in their own or in other countries, and how that relationship has changed within living memory, as the European Union has evolved. Links between past and present, east and west, and old and young will be explored and developed.
Students will research their recent history through the living memory of older members of their community, describe the changes in Europe over the past 80 years and examine the impact of migrant workers in their region.
History Workshop
You may ask, „ What is a History Workshop? “
Well, we will tell you. All members of history Workshop are very interested in history, it is a voluntary work in group with 8- 10 pupils, which takes place outside school hours.
We want to come to terms with German past and remember the awful crimes against humanity.
At the moment we work on an exhibition about the ‘Reichspogromnacht’, which will take place on 10th November in the townhall of Bremen. It´s called “Night of the Youth” and it is a highlight for us to show our work.
Our work got the topic “Here, 70 years ago, today” and is about the events of the ‘Reichspogromnacht’ 1938 in Bremen.
Our reasons to be active in the History Workshop
I’m in the History Workshop because…
Steffi:
…this past is part of me and my everyday life, too. I would like to know more about it to understand the world today.
Frede:
…I think it is very useful to remember to the victims of the National Socialism. Once an artist said that if we forget the victims that is exactly what the nazis wanted. Furthermore you should look into the past to learn something for the future.
Maren:
…we shouldn´t forget the crimes of the National Socialism. The youth who didn´t grow up in that time should also remember, so that something like that could never happen again. I wish that some day Germany will be in other peoples’ minds not as country of fashism, but as a country of culture varity and openess.
Niels:
…some people don´t know what really happened. When I see neo-nazis today I know that enlightenment is the right way. And that is exactly what we do in the History Workshop.
You may ask, „ What is a History Workshop? “
Well, we will tell you. All members of history Workshop are very interested in history, it is a voluntary work in group with 8- 10 pupils, which takes place outside school hours.
We want to come to terms with German past and remember the awful crimes against humanity.
At the moment we work on an exhibition about the ‘Reichspogromnacht’, which will take place on 10th November in the townhall of Bremen. It´s called “Night of the Youth” and it is a highlight for us to show our work.
Our work got the topic “Here, 70 years ago, today” and is about the events of the ‘Reichspogromnacht’ 1938 in Bremen.
Our reasons to be active in the History Workshop
I’m in the History Workshop because…
Steffi:
…this past is part of me and my everyday life, too. I would like to know more about it to understand the world today.
Frede:
…I think it is very useful to remember to the victims of the National Socialism. Once an artist said that if we forget the victims that is exactly what the nazis wanted. Furthermore you should look into the past to learn something for the future.
Maren:
…we shouldn´t forget the crimes of the National Socialism. The youth who didn´t grow up in that time should also remember, so that something like that could never happen again. I wish that some day Germany will be in other peoples’ minds not as country of fashism, but as a country of culture varity and openess.
Niels:
…some people don´t know what really happened. When I see neo-nazis today I know that enlightenment is the right way. And that is exactly what we do in the History Workshop.
Eight Kilometres into Dubiety
It was 02.00 o´clock in the night, when the order of Heinrich Böhmcker, mayor of Bremen and member of the SS, came.
The order said to get all Jewish people on the streets and to arrest them.
Obersturmbannführer Steup acted on the order with many armed SS-men and burgled in the night from the 9th to the 10th November in all houses, where Jewish people lived and propelled them to gathering places, for example to the “Alte Gymnasium” and the “Findorffer Misslerhallen”.
Women, old people and people with illness were it allowed, after standing in the coldness for hours, to go back to their houses and flats. But the men stood outside until 8.00 o´ clock, than they made a forced march of eight kilometres to the jail of Oslebshausen. The headmen insulted them the whole way.
From the jail they were deported as “security detainees” to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen at Oranienburg, Berlin.
In the concentration camp they were tortured, abused and forced into corvee for weeks.
Most of the 170 men from Bremen, just found as broken humans their way back home.
The deportations after the ‘Reichskristallnacht’, were for all Jews, who couldn´t leave Germany opportune, without return and connoted the death of 5.9 Mio. humans.
It was 02.00 o´clock in the night, when the order of Heinrich Böhmcker, mayor of Bremen and member of the SS, came.
The order said to get all Jewish people on the streets and to arrest them.
Obersturmbannführer Steup acted on the order with many armed SS-men and burgled in the night from the 9th to the 10th November in all houses, where Jewish people lived and propelled them to gathering places, for example to the “Alte Gymnasium” and the “Findorffer Misslerhallen”.
Women, old people and people with illness were it allowed, after standing in the coldness for hours, to go back to their houses and flats. But the men stood outside until 8.00 o´ clock, than they made a forced march of eight kilometres to the jail of Oslebshausen. The headmen insulted them the whole way.
From the jail they were deported as “security detainees” to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen at Oranienburg, Berlin.
In the concentration camp they were tortured, abused and forced into corvee for weeks.
Most of the 170 men from Bremen, just found as broken humans their way back home.
The deportations after the ‘Reichskristallnacht’, were for all Jews, who couldn´t leave Germany opportune, without return and connoted the death of 5.9 Mio. humans.
