Teaching about Race and Gender Exclusion Timelines

ongoing

The project’s goal is to increase knowledge and provide a more nuanced understanding of the exclusionary policies of extreme right movements and regimes of the 1930s and 1940s whose collaboration resulted in limiting fundamental rights of groups of people, persecution, the Holocaust and other war crimes. The interconnectedness of exclusionary, racist politics of belonging and specific gender roles system will be explored, with appropriate timeline established, and make accessible to youth and wider public in the form of efficient learning tools and remembrance forms. The project aims to counter distortion and trivialisation of the Holocaust history in different European societies where antisemitism and persecution of Jews and Roma are often misinterpreted as being forced upon by Nazi occupiers only. The project involves organisations of different type from Croatia, Germany and Romania, pooling resources to achieve objectives through a series of activities: exchange and transfer of good practices, Holocaust commemoration, academic conference on gender and the extreme right movements, creation of a pilot set of educational materials and workshops with students and educators, design of a multimedia interactive website, education of educators, public presentations and dissemination at the European level. The key objective is to transform historical facts and interpretations into innovative educational, interactive digital material accessible to youth and general public. We will develop learning tools about exclusionary politics of extreme right movements and regimes with both racialised ethnicity and gender perspective included, with appropriate new timeline (1930s-1940s), visualise cross-national links between extreme right groups and movements, use these learning tools in education of specific target groups, and ensure transfer of knowledge and good practices among project partners in the fields of memory work, Holocaust education, musealisation and commemoration.