- Muriel Akkerman and Eline Sap joined our team - September 5, 2024
- Idir: Algeria - April 25, 2024
- The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) continues to support our training courses on discrimination and racism. - April 24, 2024
Social Science Works has adopted a school in Hamburg. Instead of one time three days, we will be present in the school for almost a whole year, interacting about two days per month with two groups of adolescents, with different ages. We will talk over fundamental values and ideas that keep our societies and communities together and all sorts of discrimination, including racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and homophobia.
We will also have a “Dark Tourism Deliberation Day” in Berlin. Together with our fellow and specialist Asaf Leshem we will visit five memorial sites: The Memorial for the Murdered Members of the Reichstag; The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism; The Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe; The Memorial for Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism; and the Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist “Euthanasia” Killings (the so called Aktion T4).
In each of the memorials we will engage in discussions on topics of democracy, freedom, discrimination, xenophobia and racism, antisemitism and others. We will deliberate these topics through examination of the memorial sites, and through answering such questions as What do they mean to the students? Why were they built? Who were they built for? Why do we commemorate? Why do we commemorate via memorial sites?
The project has been made possible by IN VIA Hamburg (www.invia-hamburg.de) and the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend. We will evaluate the workings of the project via repeated surveys and interviews.
