Schindler's List + talk with the author
A great opportunity to meet the world famous author of the Schindler’s list book in Brno.
School curriculum
activities create the Museum of Survivors which opens in 2025 to mark
80 years since the end of World War 2. We need your help to ′′make a museum′′.
Starting from Zero
The Arks Foundation is working to save Schindler’s Ark to form a Museum of Survivors in Brnenec, and to restore and rebuild the three surviving buildings to create an arts centre and a museum for survivors of the Holocaust. The museum will open in 2025 with the exhibition Starting from Zero in the converted textile warehouse, which first will be on view at The Villa Tugendhat in the summer 2024.
Ben Ferencz - Interactive Testimonies
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.
Starting from Zero: Role of Art and co-design of exhibition
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.
iWalk - digital history activity
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.
Making Jewish Heritage Textile Activity
October 25th-27th, with additional workshopsto December, 2023
Ekotextil SSUD, Brno and Olomouc, Czech Republic
With additional workshops in Brussels, Chemnitz and Biella
Emilie Schindler – Gender and Testimony Education
A series of events with the visit of Erika Rosenburg the heir and biographer of Emilie Schindler, “The Angel of Schindler’s Ark”.
Schindler’s List at 30 Making a Museum of Survivors
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.
Schindler Jew families return to make a Museum of Survivors in Czech Republic
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 Kenneally - author of Schindler’s list in Brněnec
Thomas Keneally is coming back to the place where Oskar Schindler saved 1200 Jews.
THOMAS KENEALLY'S VISIT TO SVITAVY
Thomas Keneally, the author of the world-famous novel Schindler's List, will come to Svitavy on Monday 13 March 2023.
