The youth exchange "Last Prisoner Story" gathered 19 young people from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and the Russian Federation in the town of Konstantinovka, Ukraine. During two weeks in August 2010, the participants worked on the theme of Second World War as common European history and the connection between history and the common European problems of racism and xenophobia; they 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, collected materials and visited memorial places of the Second World War.
The project was implemented by SCI Germany, SVIT-Ukraine, SCI Austria, Youth Memorial and Utilapu Hungary, with support of the German National Agency, the Youth in Action programme.
In April 2013 the "Last Prisoner Story" continued with another Youth Exchange, that brought 20 young people from Ukraine, Moldova, Italy, Germany and Austria to Konstantinovka. They again conducted interviews and recorded the life stories of people who had been taken to Germany as forced labourers during the Second World War. The results of these interviews are also published on this blog.
This time the project was implemented by SCI Germany, SVIT-Ukraine, SCI Austria, SCI Italy and AVI Moldova.
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"Last prisoner story" project - report in Russian
The project was implemented by SCI Germany, SVIT-Ukraine, SCI Austria, Youth Memorial and Utilapu Hungary, with support of the German National Agency, the Youth in Action programme.
In April 2013 the "Last Prisoner Story" continued with another Youth Exchange, that brought 20 young people from Ukraine, Moldova, Italy, Germany and Austria to Konstantinovka. They again conducted interviews and recorded the life stories of people who had been taken to Germany as forced labourers during the Second World War. The results of these interviews are also published on this blog.
This time the project was implemented by SCI Germany, SVIT-Ukraine, SCI Austria, SCI Italy and AVI Moldova.
Project background
Information about Partners
Information about the Participants
Media Articles
"Last prisoner story" project - report in Russian
