Thursday 9 December 2010

Introduction to the program

“Last prisoner story” youth exchange gathered groups of young people from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and Russian Federation in a town of Konstantinovka, Ukraine. During two weeks in August 26 participants worked on the  theme of 2nd World War as common European history, connection between history and common European problem as racism and xenophobia; discovered and recorded stories of people who had been forced labourers or prisoners of concentration camps. The foundation were diaries and stories of two forced laboureres, one from Ukraine and one from Germany, which had been discovered in Konstantinovka. Participants recorded the stories of people, conducted interviews, had educational workshops, exchange and debates on the project topics, worked on an internet blog, produced a video of interviews and collected materials and visited memorial places of the 2nd World War.

The project was implemented by SCI Germany, SVIT-Ukraine, SCI Austria, Youth Memorial and Utilapu Hungary, with support of German National Agency, Youth in Action programme.

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