Workshop “Theresienstadt”

My memorial tree

Workshop in situ – special thanks to the Terezín Memorial

• Online : Watch the documentary film about the pilot workshop (05/2015)

Age group: 14 years – … (adaptable, also for adults)

Working materials (inter alia):

• Extracts from diaries, post cards, poems, drawings etc. of former internees of the Terezín ghetto  (Petr Ginz, Alfred Kantor, Pavel Friedman, Kurt Gerron …)
• Extracts from the literary work of the writers Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Milan Kundera (*1929) and Ivan Klima (*1931)
• Extracts from the movie The Last of the Unjust by Claude Lanzmann (2013)
• Photos from the nazi propaganda movie Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (The Führer Gives a City to the Jews), 1944
• The TREE as a symbol of « living commemoration »
• The metaphor of the TRACE : setting up an open air exposition at a memorial site