EVENTS 2023 - 2024

EDS

1. Schindler’s List at 30 Making a Museum of Survivors

24 - 26 June 2023

Watch the film Schindler’s List in the place where the events occurred to mark its 30 years anniversary.

Is the story still relevant? Can an individual stand up to discrimination and to killing systems? How do survivors shape our world? You will hear the testimonies of survivors and contribute to the co-design of Making a Museum of Survivors from the ruins.

2. Emilie Schindler – Gender and Testimony Education

13 Oct - 15 Oct 2023

A series of events with the visit of Erika Rosenburg the heir and biographer of Emilie Schindler, “The Angel of Schindler’s Ark”.

3. Second Generation activity - Joseph and Rebecca Bau

21 Mar - 22 Mar 2024

School based virtual workshops on second generation transmission of memory involving the families of Arnost Lustig and Joseph and Rebecca Bau. Supported by involving the families of Arnost Lustig and Joseph and Rebecca Bau. Supported by additional in person work within classrooms in Czech Republic and Hungary as part of the Arks school curriculum.

4. Arks Jewish resistance testimony activity

8 Feb - 9 Feb 2024

Online seminar and testimony activity on the forms of Jewish Resistance in Schindler’s Ark – with new materials, testimony and discussion with survivor’s families

School based curriculum activity – continued class-based testimony activity and completion of the worksheet and exercises.

Ongoing curriculum activities to June

Ongoing school curriculum activities and in June the in person meeting and discussion of students with survivors’ families.

5. Genocide and international law testimony activity

25 Apr - 26 Apr 2024

The testimony activities were based on the legacy of international law and genocide – and issues of justice and law. The Heads of the Camps in Brnenec and Plaszow were the first case of genocide and crimes against humanity tried in Polish courts. In addition, an informal court was set up in Schindler’s Ark where a German soldier was inadequately tried and executed. The activity will listen to the testimonies of Schindler Jews who met the individuals, and their responses to the trials and to the informal court in Schindler’s Ark. This shows the different views on justice and law.

6. Thomas Kenneally - author of Schindler’s list in Brněnec

9 Mar - 18 Mar 2023

Thomas Keneally is coming back to the place where Oskar Schindler saved 1200 Jews.

7. Otti Berger and bauhaus Jewish Textiles

30 June 2024

The expert seminar shows the role of Jewish artists in the Bauhaus at the start of the 20th century and how those that survived continued to shape our world to the end of the 20th century.

The aim was also to support the legacy of Otti Berger one of the greatest talents of the Bauhaus who was murdered in Auschwitz, and show that she can also continue to shape our world.

8. Ben Ferencz - Interactive Testimonies

22 Feb - 23 Feb 2024

These events look at technology and testimonies and how to make testimonies interactive and involve the viewer in a conversation.

The event demonstrates interactive testimonies to students in five countries with follow up co-design inputs in Czech Republic, Hungary and Switzerland.

9.Starting from Zero: Role of Art and co-design of exhibition

14 Dec 2023 -15 Dec 2023

Widar Halen, the director and curator of the exhibition will introduce the exhibition and present the role of the Jewish textile artists Otti Berger and Anni Berger, one who survived and another who did not. In addition, the art of the Schindler Jew Joseph Bau will be shown, who used poetry and jokes to save as many lives as Oskar Schindler first in the ghetto and then in Brnenec. This highlights Jewish creativity, agency through art.

10. Exhibition “Starting at Zero” for Students and Public

29 Jun - 1 Sep 2024

Widar Halen, the director and curator of the exhibition will introduce the exhibition and present the role of the Jewish textile artists Otti Berger and Anni Berger, one who survived and another who did not. In addition, the art of the Schindler Jew Joseph Bau will be shown, who used poetry and jokes to save as many lives as Oskar Schindler first in the ghetto and then in Brnenec. This highlights Jewish creativity, agency through art.

11. Making Jewish Heritage Textile Activity

12 - 15 November 2023

Widar Halen, the director and curator of the exhibition will introduce the exhibition and present the role of the Jewish textile artists Otti Berger and Anni Berger, one who survived and another who did not. In addition, the art of the Schindler Jew Joseph Bau will be shown, who used poetry and jokes to save as many lives as Oskar Schindler first in the ghetto and then in Brnenec. This highlights Jewish creativity, agency through art.

12. School curriculum

15 April 2024

You are invited to a capacity building workshop on the Teaching Curriculum. The event is to share experiences on the teaching curriculum, launch the description of the activities and to discuss learning outcomes for inputs to the impact assessment.

13. iWalk Schindler’s Ark, hybrid place based digital

1 November 2023

We have developed the iWalk digital testimony activity. This activity will be available and implemented to students visiting Schindler’s Ark, Brnenec and with in-person events in schools in Czech Republic, Hungary and Switzerland.

15. Arks - Digital Testimony Activities and Database

8 May 2024

The event is to share digital testimonies collected and edited during the project, present the new perspectives they have provided, and build capacity on how to access and use them. This covers the use of iWitness, iWalk place based testimonies, and access to materials recorded as part of this project on Emilie Schindler and the Schindler Jews.

Schindler Jew families return to make a Museum of Survivors in Czech Republic

23 June 2023

The family of Schindler Jews return to Schindler’s Ark on 25th June to mark 30 years since the release of the film Schindler’s List. They will meet with 200 school children from 5 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Slovakia) to co-design the Museum of Survivors supported by the European Union.

THOMAS KENEALLY'S VISIT TO SVITAVY

13 March 2023

Thomas Keneally, the author of the world-famous novel Schindler's List, will come to Svitavy on Monday 13 March 2023.

Schindler's List + talk with the author

10 March 2023

A great opportunity to meet the world famous author of the Schindler’s list book in Brno.

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