The website "Learning from History" is a publication platform
for educational projects (realized in schools and in out-of-school, youth education) dedicated to the history
of Poland and its neighbors in the 20th century.
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The Bernburg memorial offers materials to teachers to help them prepare their students for a first visit to the site. More than 14,000 patients and prisoners were killed in Bernburg between 1940 and 1943 during the...
Students began by surveying classmates about their knowledge of the Malchow concentration camp, a sub-camp of Ravensbrück. In order to keep the camp's memory alive in the town, the students conducted an...
After the unification of Germany, the Wilhelm Hammann School in Thuringia was directed to change its name. Students and teachers conducted a research project and discovered that Hammann, a political prisoner in...
"History Houses" are part of a local history research project centered on Brandenburg in 1945. The project, created to mark the fiftieth anniversary of liberation, was designed to motivate students, teachers and others to...
Since 1998, unemployed youth have been researching Jewish history in their home town of Freiberg and neighboring Czech cities as part of a job qualification program to become "specialists for information and media...
News
09.03.2010 | Tuesday
36 girls and boys aged 15 to 16 years, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Montenegro, Poland and Serbia are invited to participate in the next CAMPUS15 ...
24.02.2010 | Wednesday
The Solidarity Academy takes place in Gdańsk from 25th till 30th of April. It is a seminar for 60 young participants: 20 from Poland and 40 from abroad ...
27.01.2010 | Wednesday
Teaching about the Holocaust rarely includes discussion of related human rights issues - EU Agency’s report says.
17.12.2009 | Thursday
The 2nd International Academy on Remembrance and Human Rights will take place in Berlin from March 14-19, 2010.
28.09.2009 | Monday
New Call for Applications - funding programme for international youth projects Europeans for Peace
History is always changing its shape and that is why it is endlessly fascinating – declares Margaret Macmillan professor of history at the University of Oxford. Same facts can be looked at ...
Professor Timothy Snyder in his recent article in "The New York Review of Books" (July 16) expands the conventional understanding of the mass killings of European civilians in the 1930s and ...