This was an online workshop exploring how digital tools can transform youth education and make learning about history, culture, and memory more interactive and relevant for today’s youth.
About the event
This event will showcased the latest findings and experiences from the iMemory Project. A project by Centropa, in cooperation with Galicia Jewish Museum, Centre for Education Policy, Gedankendach, HERMES and berlinHistory. iMemory brings together 72 young people and educators from different countries to explore the 20th-century history of their Jewish communities through oral history, storytelling, and digital tools. The project encourages young participants to collect personal stories, document them and share them through multimedia and innovative online platforms.
During this workshop participants:
- Discovered how young people have used tools like TikTok, virtual reality (VR), and Centropa’s MemoryLanes app to engage with history and memory in new, creative ways.
- Heard directly from young participants about their experiences conducting oral history interviews Jewish community members, Holocaust survivors and their descendants
- Explored practical strategies for integrating iMemory’s resources and methods into your own teaching practice
- Took part in an interactive demo of the MemoryLanes app, and learn how it can support storytelling and historical inquiry in your classroom.
By combining personal stories with digital innovation, iMemory empowers educators to connect the past and present, helping students see history not as distant or abstract, but as something living.
iMemory is a project of the #Bildungsagenda_NS_Unrecht, funded by the @evzfoundation and the @bundesfinanzministerium #iMemory #EVZgefördert / #Bildungsagenda_NS_Unrecht)
