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Besuch der Gesamtschule Hardt in Mönchengladbach

„We, the Six Million“ visited the Gesamtschule Hardt in Mönchengladbach for the second time with our traveling exhibition just before the summer break. Among other things, the students created a biography of Hans-Arno Schmitz, whose mother was deported to Theresienstadt. The exhibition sparked great interest among the students.

The new school year has now begun, and we look forward to working with many more schools on exciting projects!

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Ort Yad Leibowitz High School in Netanya

The exhibition “We, the six Million” was also shown in schools in Israel, for example in the Ort Yad Leibowitz High School in Netanya. The school already has a school partnership with the “Städtische Gesamtschule Stolberg” in Germany. They have done great projects together and are working on a new program for next school year. 

After the 7th of October 2023 a lot of schools dedicated projects to students or alumni who were murdered or died in battle in the last 8 months. Ort Yad Leibowitz High School made posters for their three alumni as you can see on the third pictures and planted trees in their names, so that they will never be forgotten.🕯️

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ORT Adivi School in Ashkelon

Together with Dr. Nikolaj Beier, Deputy Director of the North Rhine-Westphalia office in Israel and ORT School Network we visited the ORT Adivi School in Ashkelon, a college specialized in AutoTech, electrical engineering and hair design classes. 

We talked to the principal, teachers and students about the challenges they daily face because of the ongoing war. Ashkelon was, at the beginning of the war, the most bombed city in Israel, and the school had to close until December last year because they didn’t have enough shelters for their students. The current motto of the school is “From survivors to leaders,” and the teachers and students do their best to achieve that. 

This school would like to have a school partner with a German school in the near future, and “We, the six million” will try to find a good match for this school.

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Branco Weiss Rabin High School (Mazkeret Batya)

Es war schön, wieder an der Branco Weiss Rabin High School in Mazkeret Batya zu sein. Wir hatten das Vergnügen, mit Schülern der 10. und 11. Klasse über unser Projekt zu sprechen. Ein Schüler der 10. Klasse brachte ein sehr interessantes Buch mit dem Titel „Und jeder Einzelne war jemand“ mit in die Schule, um es uns zu zeigen.
Das Buch enthält das Wort „Jude“ sechs Millionen Mal auf 1250 Seiten. Vielen Dank, dass du dieses berührende Buch mit uns geteilt hast.

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Besuch der Familie Shvetz am Berufskolleg Nord (Herzogenrath)

Wir hatten die große Ehre, Evie Keller-Shvetz, ihren Mann Fred und ihre Tochter Elizabeth begrüßen zu dürfen, die den weiten Weg aus New York zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung im Berufskolleg Nord in Herzogenrath (Deutschland) zurückgelegt haben. Hintergrund war, dass Schülerinnen und Schüler des Berufskolleg in der Vergangenheit ein Schulprojekt über Ernst Keller, Evies Vater, erstellt haben. Anschließend konnten wir ihnen das Dorf Hoengen/Alsdorf (Deutschland) zeigen, in dem ihre Familie vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs viele Jahre lebte. Wir führten sie auch durch die niederländische Stadt Kerkrade, da ihr Vater und ihre Großeltern während des Krieges in den Niederlanden versteckt waren.

Wir möchten uns bei allen bedanken, die mitgewirkt und uns geholfen haben, diese Tage für die Familie Shvetz zu etwas ganz Besonderem zu machen. Ein besonderer Dank geht an den Bürgermeister von Alsdorf, Alfred Sonders, den Bürgermeister von Herzogenrath, Dr. Benjamin Fadavian, und die Bürgermeisterin von Kerkrade, Dr. Petra Dassen-Housen.

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Goodbye !

Our Israel adventure has come to an end. The exhibition will be shipped back to Germany again. We are grateful for all the amazing experience we made, for all the interesting conversations we had with the students and for the cooperations with the teachers and the High Schools in Israel. We would like to thank everybody who helped and supported the We, the six Million project.

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Yachad High School (Modi’in)

We have visited the last school in Israel, the Yachad High School in Modi’in. In there big library there was room enough to display the whole exhibition. A lot of students visited the exhibition, but towards the end of the week the impact of Corona became more visible at the school. For the first time every we gave a hybrid guided tour (some students were in the exhibition and some could see the exhibition through a zoom meeting)
And on our last day we even gave a virtual guided tour, because all the students of the 11th grade had to stay at home. This was of course no problem for us. Thanks to modern media and the participation of the students everybody who had to stay at home was able to see the exhibition.