Under funding from the German government and the European Union, the ESJF organises a large variety of events to empower people across Europe to take care of their local Jewish cemeteries and thus preserve and maintain the historical memory of their lost Jewish communities.
From drone technology in heritage preservation to Jewish cemeteries in the classroom, our efforts aim to provide a wider view of Jewish contributions to local history and heritage, and to emphasise the values of a multicultural society, based on tolerance and opposed to racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism.
The results of these programmes are a key component in building a sustainable future and ensuring the long-term protection of Jewish cemeteries.
Over the course of the 2020-2021 EU-funded project “Protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe: Continuation of the mapping process, stakeholders’ involvement and awareness raising (EAC/S10/2019)”, ESJF joined forces with NGOs Centropa and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage to raise awareness of Jewish cemeteries among teachers and students. Under the leadership of Centropa, the consortium organised seven interactive training seminars for 250 teachers in seven countries, put out a call for teacher lesson plans, and ran an international digital storytelling competition for youth. Despite COVID-19 restrictions and school closures, the consortium received 98 student entries to the competition. Below are the winning competition entries.
Scroll down for our teacher lesson plan submissions, available as downloadable PDFs in Ukrainian, Hungarian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Polish, Georgian, and Croatian.
Congratulations to all!
As part of our new EU-funded Pilot Project: “Rescue by Recognition: Mapping Jewish Cemeteries in Europe”, ESJF is working with our partners at Centropa to carry out educational programmes across Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The first events of the programme will consist of two-day teacher training seminars in each of the countries, in which veteran educators from Centropa and ESJF will lead workshops providing participants with all the tools necessary to bring Jewish heritage to their classrooms in a meaningful, engaging way.
Participants will have the opportunity to attend talks from experts on Jewish heritage, workshops on developing lesson plans and making educational films, screenings of short documentaries by Centropa and ESJF, and guided tours of local Jewish cemeteries and synagogues.
This is a fantastic opportunity for educators with an interest in teaching Jewish heritage.
Location: Zagreb
Date: September 13-14, 2020
Location: Online (Zoom)
Date: December 1-2, 2020
Location: Debrecen
Date: October 18-19, 2020
Location: Kaunas
Date: August 25-26, 2020
Location: Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow
Date: August 23-24, 2020
Location: Banska Bystrica
Date: September 13-14, 2020
Location: Online (Zoom)
Date: November 24-25, 2020
Our colloquium in the Czech Republic is just around the corner! The ESJF, with support of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, invites activists and concerned parties to a colloquium “Restoration, Care, and Documentation: Jewish Cemeteries in the Czech Republic,” taking place from September 30 to October 1 in Prague. This event […]
