How does our history shape our everyday life? And why is it so important to learn from European history and to keep up our remembrance culture?
In our last episode, together with Jutta Weduwen and Max Anton Müller, directress and summer camp leader of the German association Action Reconciliation and Peace (short ASF), we explore exactly that question through ASF’s project “Forgotten History in Europe”, funded by the EU CERV Remembrance program.
History in Europe, most recently but certainly not only since the phase of German national socialism and World War II, reveals structural and systemic discrimination against Jewish, Sinti and Roma population. Jutta Weduwen explains that throughout the project participants discover a sometimes largely unknown local history of Nazi crimes, what impact it has until today and how to combat antisemitism and antigypsyism across Europe.
ASF, their partner organizations in Poland, Czech Republic and Greece as well as local initiatives organize meet-ups with witnesses and activists, workshops, summer camps and study trips to raise awareness and develop innovative ways to keep learning from that history in present times.
With Max Anton Müller we hear more about one of last year’s summer camps in Budapest, Hungary. As the leader of that summer camp, Max tells us all about his experiences about the work the group of intercultural participants did, what kind of impressions and challenges they had and how they grew into their own part-time family just over a few weeks.
Project “Forgotten History in Europe”
Action Reconciliation and Peace Germany (ASF)
