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The project “Digital Local Tradition Archive” is a project within the Library Development Program, addressed to librarians of rural and rural-municipal communes and municipal communes w

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An analysis of anti-democratic mentalities in eight European countries prepared by Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick, Dr. Beate Küpper and Andreas Hövermann for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Project on Combating Right-wing Extremism (Forum Berlin).

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An article by Annegret Ehmann and Hanns-Fred Rathenow, scholarly experts on Holocaust Education in Germany.

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Tosha Tillotson and David H. Lindquist present ways of teaching English Language Learners about the Holocaust

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The contributor offers a reconsideration, based only on historical facts, of the “JudenratA group of 12 to 24 Jewish men appointed by the Germans in the occupied Polish territories after 1 September 1939 to control the Jewish population which had been concentrated in ghettos before or at the same time, subject to the German civil administration whose orders it had to fulfil unconditionally. Its competencies further included administrative affairs, social welfare and health care. The Jewish Council was obliged to recruit and remunerate workers in accordance with the labour obligation of the male Jewish population, to organise their deployment to labour camps, collect and deliver contributions etc. Later, they were forced to collaborate in the deportation of the Jewish population to the death camps. Some Jewish Councils were in charge of the Ordnungsdienst (security service), the so-called Jewish Police who were not allowed to carry or use any weapons except rubber truncheons. Question” pointing out how those tragic figure had been overburdened by events and circumstanc

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Tanja Ronen describes the possibilities of learning at the GhettoThe Nazis revived the medieval term 'ghetto' to describe their compulsory "Jewish quarters". Ghettos were poor sections of a city where all Jews from the city and surrounding areas were forced to reside. Surrounded by barbed wire or walls, the ghettos were sealed and no one could leave. Established mostly in German-occupied Eastern Europe (for example, Lodz, Warsaw, Vilna, Riga, Minsk), the ghettos were characterized by overcrowding, starvation and heavy labor. All ghettos were eventually dissolved, and the Jews and Gypsies that had resided there were deported and murdered. Fighter's Museum and its multi-cultural concept.

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The authors argue how the life and times of Anne FrankBorn in 1929. A Jewish teenaged girl who, with her family, went into hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The diary that she kept during that time has become a classic. Anne and her family had moved from Frankfurt to Amsterdam in 1933. The family went into hiding in 1942 and was betrayed in August 1944. Family members were subsequently deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anne and her sister were transported to Bergen-Belsen at the end of October 1944 and Anne died of typhus in March 1945, shortly before Bergen-Belsen was liberated. serve as a catalyst for both reflection and civic engagement.

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In the following paper I will present some preliminary thoughts I have developed during one year of research on post-soviet history teachers and their role as an interface between individual and collective memory of the communist past.

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In 2002, D. Rurikov, the ambassador of the Russian Federation in Uzbekistan, sent a letter of protest to the Russian Federation Ministry of Publishing and Information against the publication in the Republic of Uzbekistan of a textbook (in the Russian language) for 9th grade general education school.

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This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of meaning and identity, as well as the implications for social politi

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JEMMS explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media.

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1989 marks a break of historical continuity: a big part of the "socialist world" disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet regime.

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Spain has launched a pioneering project to bring students to various sites of Holocaust remembrance around Europe.

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Some 200 decision makers in the field of education, from approximately 40 countries - including Austria, Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,

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Forced labourPrisoners from concentration camps and workers conscripted in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union were compelled to work, on starvation rations, in agriculture, highway building and factories for the German state during World War II. Labor was also viewed as a form of killing by attrition. Forced labor was introduced for Sinti and Roma inside Nazi Germany in 1936, and after 1938 it was extended to German Jews and other concentration camp prisoners. Information from the Nuremberg trials estimated that there were 12 million forced laborers. in the National Socialist era – this is a topic which has been widely discussed over the past twenty years, primarily in connection with compensationRestitution of expropriated, stolen real estate and money (arisation) and individual compensation paid to the victims of National Socialist persecution for physical and mental suffering endured. In Germany, the legal term "Wiedergutmachung" [restitution and compensation] became generally accepted to describe the complex framework of treaties and laws related to compensation, because it has a connotation of "paying a penalty for something". This term was used colloquially, however, it did not appropriately describe the problem. Compensation claims had already been discussed by Jewish organisations and the US-administration before the end of the Second World War. The first international agreement was signed in the end of 1945: the Paris Agreement on Reparation, signed by 18 allied states. The law on restitution (US-REG) was passed in 1947 on an initiative of the United States.  The German Federal Law on Restitution (Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz) was only passed in 1957. Compensation and restitution were unpopular and led to resentments against those who were entitled to it. Collective agreements of the Federal Republic of Germany: 1952, with Israel and the Claims Conference. Individual compensation starting from 1953 according to the Federal Compensation Law (Bundesentschädigungsgesetz). The law put certain groups at a disadvantage, e.g. non-German victims of National Socialism and a number of German groups, like the Sinti and the Roma, communists, pacifists, homosexuals, those concerned by the Nazi laws on hereditary diseases and so-called anti-social elements. Only 1.5 million out of an estimated total 20 million of victims of National Socialist persecution actually received any compensation. The procedures to establish the damage endured and the compensations actually paid for severe suffering came under harsh criticism. Until the end of the 1990ies, the Federal Republic of Germany had paid a total of 100 billion DM for compensations, 80% of these monies went to Jewish Holocaust survivors. In July 2000, the German parliament set up the foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, Future" for the compensation of the about 1.2 million surviving forced labourers who had worked for German industries during National Socialism. payments.

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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) gathered experts from 12 countries in Berlin today to exchange experiences on implementing an education programme on combatin

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Jeremy Noakes traces the origins of 'Lebensraum', identifying why Hitler looked to the east to expand.

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What were the motives behind the European colonisation of Africa at the end of the 19th century? Did the stamping out of slavery really play a part?

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Compilation of several different sources on the murder of 22 000 Polish officers by the Red Army in spring 1940.

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Translated from the Polish edition, which appeared in 2001, this is a stunning work, one of the most important books on the history of the Nazi Holocaust.

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Edited by Ray Brandon, Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Anna Lipphardt.

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This volume elucidates the debates surrounding the historical development of human rights after 1945.

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On Wednesday 17 March 2010 83 people attented the seminar 'History of Migrations in France and Europe: which challenges for the classrooms?'  which EUROCLIO organised in Paris thanks to a su

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History is all about facts and their interpretation. Facts do not change but their interpretation – of course.

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The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a report entitled “Discover the Past for the Future.

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Professor Timothy Snyder wants to expand the conventional understanding of mass murders druring the period between the 1930s and the 1940s.

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An article by Sybil Milton, a leading scholar on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

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Two inseparably interlinked elements of Holocaust education in our school are remembrance and teaching.

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Mónika Kovács, President of the Hannah Arendt Association in Hungary, about Holocaust Education in the context of human rights, Jewish history and antisemitismAnti-Semitism is a form of racism that denigrates a group of people. Anti-Semitism has three main variations: (1) anti-Judaism is a religiously-based hostility to Jews, particularly by Christianity. Its roots lie in pre-Christian antiquity. (2) Modern anti-Semitism is based on racial theories that are often politically and economically motivated. (3) Anti-Zionism is a phenomenon of both the extreme right and extreme left and demonizes the state of Israel as a Jewish national movement for a homeland..

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The attitude of the majority of the Czech population is a rather indifferent one toward the topic of the Jewish minority.

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A Project of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (bm:bwk).

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Information on the treatment of the Holocaust in various German Federal States.

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Towards 2009, the 20th anniversary of 1989, a global window of attention opens.

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Short Analysis of the Representation of the Second World War and the Holocaust in Slovakian History Textbooks for Schools.

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Ton Zwaan, Member of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam, gives an insight about the topic of Holocaust Education in the Netherlands.

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The attitude of the majority of the Czech population is a rather indifferent one toward the topic of the Jewish minority.

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Mónika Kovács, President of the Hannah Arendt Association in Budapest/Hungary, introduces different approaches of Holocaust Education in Hungary.

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