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2018-02-23/by Misko Stanisic

OSCE Chairmanship Conference on Tolerance and Diversity

1-Pic/Day #SaveSajmiste #SaveTopovskeSupe

Terraforming launched a campaign 1-Pic/Day #SaveSajmiste #SaveTopovskeSupe on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to raise awareness of the urgent and pressing situation of endangered authentic Holocaust sites at Sajmiste and Topovske Supe in Belgrade. After 75 years these sites are in shameful state: ignored, dirty and neglected. We have to turn these spaces of suffering and oblivion into spaces for education and remembrance NOW. Join our campaign and share the info: urgent preservation & permanent memorial NOW!

TEACHING MATERIALS AND DOWNLOADS

Ester.rs – educational concept and a collection of graphic novels

Teaching material developed in a form of a collection of graphic novels about life in the pre-war Serbia and the young Holocaust victims of the concentration camp at Sajmište.

Graphic novel, literature and archival materials in education

A publication about graphic novel, literature and archival material in education about the Holocaust, available for download (PDF in Serbian).

Teaching Material to Address Antisemitism

Developed by Serbian experts as a part of OSCE/ODIHR and Anne Frank House project, this teaching material for use in Serbia is available in English, too.

Exhibition: Some words about the Holocaust in Serbia

Six-panel set, ready for download, print, and exhibiting, is developed for better understanding of the historical experience in Serbia in the context of the European Holocaust.

Ready2Print exhibition: Shoah – how was it humanly possible?

Yad Vashem’s ready2print exhibition “Shoa How Was It Humanly Possible?” deals with major historical aspects of the Holocaust. Terraforming prepared Serbian translation and dissemination in Serbia and the region.

Reading and Writing With Anne Frank in Serbia

An exhibition and a workshop concept with the original teaching materials developed by the Anne Frank House experts, translated and adapted for use in Serbia by Terraforming, is continuously touring since 2015, visiting more than 50 schools and libraries in 40 cities around Serbia and the region.

Terraforming awarded Yehuda Bauer Grant by IHRA

The project “The International Library Platform for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust” developed by Terraforming South (Serbia) is awarded the annual Yehuda Bauer Grant for 2016. IHRA awards this honor annually to an outstanding project proposal submitted through IHRA’s Grant Programme. The recipient of the Yehuda Bauer Grant is selected by the Funding Review Committee from among all proposals recommended to IHRA’s member country delegations for funding.

In light of its excellent quality, its highly multilateral dimension and efforts to establish an international cooperation using existing infrastructure among a rarely targeted group, it was decided to award this project with the Yehuda Bauer Grant in 2016

– the IHRA Funding Review Committee

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA and to the Funding Review Committee. We deeply respect IHRA as the most important multilateral body that shapes international and national policies, and gives crucial guidelines and support in the fields of education, remembrance and research about the Holocaust. That is why this award is truly a great honor, and a major endorsement of our work.

Ester.rs featured in the OSCE/ODIHR video

Our educational concept and teaching material Ester.rs , developed in the frames of the OSCE/ODIHR programme “Turning Words Into Action to Address Antisemitism”, is featured in the OSCE/ODIHR video “Addressing Anti-Semitism Through Education”.

Why Terraforming?

Terraforming (”Earth‐shaping”) is a term from astronomy, defining the theoretical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature or topography of a new planet, to make it habitable by humans.

But before we start changing other planets, we believe that it is our World that needs to be “terraformed” first, making it a better place, with more empathy and love, with genuine respect for human rights, equality and freedom.

We are trying to give our small contribution to that kind of "terraforming" of our World.