Projects and activities
Alongside more comprehensive projects on themes such as the role of bystanders or the history of Eugenics we also work with projects of a more experimental nature. One such project is the “The Story of… Project”. A group of Holocaust survivors and a group of young people work together under the guidance of professional narrators to formulate stories based on authentic memories. The journey has largely had the goal of: What happens in the meeting? What happens to memory. What happens with the stories? One aim has been to find out whether it is possible for such oral story telling to live on when there are no longer any survivors still alive. This proved to be possible.
The Living History Forum works with a variety of themes in parallel. The primary source of reference for our themes is the Holocaust. This approach also exposes us to other serious forms of persecution and mass violence such as crimes against human rights under communist regimes. In 2008 we are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the UN resolution adopted by the Convention on Genocide.
There is always an ongoing exhibition in our premises that is visited by many school groups. When exhibitions leave our premises they generally go on tour all over the country. Such was the case with the Anne Frank exhibition, which was done in collaboration with the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, and the Sweden and the Holocaust exhibition.
The next exhibition currently being planned for our premises, Holocaust by Bullets, is one that we have borrowed from Shoah Memorial Museum in Paris. It will be followed by an exhibition based on our next major theme, The Biology of Race.