Work package #4: Facing Present Day Challenges by Learning About the Holocaust

Partners: Miteinander e.V., Galicia Jewish Museum, Nordico City museum Linz

Work package #4 explores how deradicalisation and community work combating right-wing extremism, racism and antisemitism could connect and team up with formal and informal education on the Holocaust and the Nazi period. The first step was to identify existing examples of such an approach in Germany, Austria and Poland. Based on this general overview the work package leader “Miteinander e.V.” conducted specific activities in the MemAct! team context to test specific methods and approaches developed in the context of deradicalisation activities. This work package aims to gain insights on how to get more in resonance with the present-day realities our audiences bring to Holocaust education and at the same time deepen the understanding of the Nazi period in contemporary social and political education.