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 Projects

ESTER: Young People Remember

Through the project “Ester: Young People Remember” we are enabling young people to use creativity and the creative language of graphic novels to preserve, tell, spread, promote and learn about local personal stories and historical events, putting it in a wider European context of the Holocaust. This way we are giving voice to young people to contribute to shaping the remembrance culture in their own societies. Read more…

MemAct!

MemAct! brings together educators, researchers and activists from different fields of Holocaust learning, civic education and community work against racism and anti-Semitism. The MemAct! evaluates, develops and implements best practices participatory methods to learn about the Holocaust. They aim to enable communities to connect the past with current societal issues e.g. new anti-Semitism, anti-migrant Racism and other forms of exclusion.
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HANNAH

The aim of the HANNAH project is to bring about enhanced knowledge, new forms of remembrance and increased awareness as regards Antisemitism, develop innovative tools against it, and contribute to combating it through capacity-building, awareness raising and policymaking, traditions and methods to combat antisemitism, using innovative tools such as the Educational Graphic Novel and Documentary, Oral History Presentations – Installations and dissemination actions. Read more…

The Holocaust, European Values and Local History

The project aims to develop, pilot and introduce sustainable methodologies and tools for an innovative approach in archival pedagogy, to empower smaller local archives to identify, promote, make available and safeguard important Holocaust-related materials, and to create own educational outreach programs about the Holocaust based on own archival materials and local history, presenting in the same time local micro-histories to global audiences. Read more…

Ester - teaching material and educational concept based on the graphic novels’ language

Ester graphic novels are a teaching material, its most important part being a series of dramatized stories about the Jewish victims killed in the Jewish Camp at Sajmište (Judenlager Semlin) near Belgrade. The stories focus on young victims and their families, their pre-war life, the life under the German occupation and during the Holocaust. The novels are based on real historical characters, true historical events, testimonies, historical documentation and material. An international team of experts worked together on creating the stories in order to preserve historical accuracy, the illustrations being a creation of an international team of artists.

The European Library Platform
for Holocaust Education

The project aims to create a large-scale European library network aiming to develop the framework for a collaborative platform of international resources for Holocaust education – contributing educational content to national and international holocaust Memorial days commemorations through multilateral cooperation of National Libraries of Europe and North America. 

Reading and Writing with Anne Frank in Serbia

In cooperation with the Anne Frank House Amsterdam, Terraforming translated the internationally acclaimed exhibition “Reading and Writing with Anne Frank” and adopted the educational methodologies around it for use in Serbia. Since early 2015 the it has been presented in more than 25 cities around Serbia, involving more than 60 schools and libraries in the program. Additional trainings are organized for teachers and librarians. The exhibition is received with great enthusiasm. Due to the large interest it is booked for at least 12 months ahead.

 2015-2021

 Anne Frank House

Anne Frank House (NL), Terraforming (RS)

www.danisecanja.rs

TAS – Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis – Migration Labs

TAS Labs, debates and roundtables will analyse historical experiences, narratives, misconceptions and stereotypes relating to migrants and refugees, xenophobic discourse, hate speech and anti-immigration propaganda. We will be looking into our own experiences of emigration to other countries, as well as our experiences, responsibilities and challenges as a transit or host countries in the past and current refugee and migrant crises. Read more…

Librarians and Archivists in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust

With aim to empower Serbian archivists and librarians to take a more active role as multipliers in teaching and learning about the Holocaust, Terraforming is organizing a series of activities including expert exchanges, study visits, trainings and seminars in Serbia and abroad. A particular goal is to encourage archivists and librarians to develop their own educational content and outreach programs, focusing on local history, documentation and other local sources. The activities are scheduled throughout 2018 and 2019, organized in cooperation with various international partners such as International Tracing Service ITS from Bad Arolsen (Germany), Yad vashem (Israel), House of the Wannsee Conference (Germany), and others, as well as with Serbian experts and organizations. Participants from national, regional and local Serbian libraries and archives are participating the program with huge enthusiasm and commitment as the entire program is self-financed and all costs are being shared by participating institutionsThe initiative is a part of Terraforming’s broader program on exploring new ways for, and new actors in teaching and learning about the Holocaust.

2017-2018 

 Terraforming (RS)

The Porajmos / Samudaripen
and the Roma Identity

A new-media series about causes and consequences of the Roma genocide in WWII in 12 European regions, with a particular focus on Roma identity building and self-empowerment, in cooperation with expert historians, local Roma communities and Roma media broadcasters. The project output will be a series of 24 episodes of audio & video podcasts, and educational materials about the life of Roma before, during and after the Porajmos/Samudaripen.

Escalating into Holocaust

Focusing on the victims of the concentration camp at Sajmište – a death camp for Jewish women and children from German occupied Serbia, the project expands the view from local to European perspectives and further examines the Holocaust and its defining impact on the common European values in post-war Europe. Project outputs: database of the Holocaust victims of the concentration camp at Sajmište, exhibition “October 1941”, educational materials and 7 international events in Serbia, Netherlands, Sweden and Romania.

Fortune Tellers Future

A creative cooperation between Swedish artists groups, Serbian Roma-theatre, and local Roma communities, with aim to empower and inspire young Roma not to drop out from schools, but to continue their education in higher educational instances. Beautiful artworks, “guerilla style” unannounced performances at public spaces, series of exhibitions in local cultural spaces in 3 cities, public debates, school visits and a new theater production – all conducted in the frames of “Fortune Tellers Future” project.

 2011-2012

Swedish Institute

Terraforming (SE), Suno e Rromengo (RS), Glimpse, Formverk, Candyland (SE)

New alliance in investigative journalism

Establishing new alliances in investigative journalism between journalists and Roma communities in order to uncover corruption and misconduct in local public management and to contribute to stronger rights and recognition of Roma. Seminars for young journalists and young Roma, joint investigative work and production of several pieces for radio, TV, print and online media.

 2015

Swedish Institute

Terraforming (SE), Center for education, ecology, media and public relation studies CEES (RS), Vojvodina Roma Center For Democracy (RS), Academy of Social Sciences AOSS (ME)

The Days of Remembrance

The project brought a new pedagogical format for libraries to contribute to the Holocaust education, giving the original pedagogical content to the memorial day commemorations. The expert team developed new educational tool based on 60 books available in libraries around Serbia, in form of five sets of “Memorial Day Lesson Plans” specifically produced for five particular memorial days in Serbia.

 2014-2015

 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA , Anne Frank House

 Anne Frank House (NL), Terraforming (RS) , National Library of Serbia (RS)

www.danisecanja.rs

The Future is Now

Introducing social media to local pedagogues (school teachers) and local NGOs in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and promoting it as an important and indispensable tool in work with youth, as well as for social activism. Capacity building of local actors of change by presenting them with the new tools and in building of sustainable regional networks between schools and civil society organizations. International experts gave lectures and participated to seminars through video-streams from France, Netherlands, Sweden, China and USA.

2012

Swedish Institute

Terraforming (SE), Odisej (BA), Education4All (RS)