01 July 2024
In the period from June 7 to 9, 2024, Belgrade hosted students from Germany and Poland who, together with students from Serbia, are participating in the "Memory Lanes" project.
The "Memory Lanes" project is implemented by the Centropa organization, in cooperation with the Jewish Museum of Galicia from Poland and the Centre for Education Policy from Serbia, where the students participating in this project created their art projects based on the Centropa digital archive and used creative methods to help others to understand places that were once recognizable as places of Jewish life.
During the three-day conference, students from Germany, Poland and Serbia, as well as their teachers, had the opportunity to explore the cultural and historical sights of Belgrade, and visited the Jevremovac Botanical Garden, the Staro Sajmište Memorial Center and Kalemegdan, while on the last day they presented their projects, and the project partners presented a new mobile application.
In the Jewish Cultural Center, in which the formal part of the conference was organised, each group of students presented their artistic projects, with which they encouraged the memory of Jewish families who once lived in Germany, Poland and Serbia. During the conference, an augmented reality application (AR app) was presented for the first time, which was created in the project and whose content was created by the students while working on their projects.
The application was developed by the organization berlinHistory and its users can learn more about six Jewish families from the cities where the students who worked on the project come from - Berlin, Mainham, Belgrade and Kielce.
The project is the result of a collaboration between Centropa (Berlin), the Jewish Museum of Galicia (Krakow), the Centre for Education Policy (Belgrade), berlinHistory, local educators and artists, as well as the schools that participated in the project. The students of the Technical School from Knjaževac, the First Belgrade Gymnasium, the Third Belgrade Gymnasium and the Tenth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihajlo Pupin" participated in the project.
The project is funded by the Education Agenda NS-Injustice by the Foundation EVZ (Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) based on a decision of the Bundestag.
Photo credit: Róbert László Bácsi
