On Terry Swartzberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Swartzberg
TED:
Terry Swartzberg: work with schools in Germany
Autumn 2024 – Winter 2025
Stolpersteine / Introduction to the Holocaust
Workshops teaching the young about the Holocaust, and inspiring them
to create displays, raps, poems, posters, videos and other items reaching their contemporaries and people in general.
Institution:
Michaelsbund Catholic Media Network
Project:
“Munich and its Stolpersteine” podcast
Students from 10 schools prepare and relate on-air biographies of victims of the Holocaust who have been commemorated by Stolpersteine in Munich
School:
Monte Balan Montessori Middle School
Project:
Mapping commemoration in Munich
9th graders create posters, online tools and videos showing where the
Holocaust took place in Munich – the location of the concentration and
slave labor camps in the city; where the victims lived and had their
businesses (1800 in Munich alone)
School:
Paul Pfinzing High School, Hersbruck, Bavaria
Event:
Faces for the Names Hersbruck concentration camp
November 7, 2024 and April 8, 2025
Project:
Creating items to be performed on these dates and at an event in the
high school. 4,500 persons were murdered at this concentration camp.
School:
Neuhof High School, Munich, Bavaria
Project:
Creating a display in a window a building in Munich, in front of which
Stolpersteine have been placed for six victims of the Holocaust. The
display will relate the stories of the victims and of the Holocaust in the
quarter and in Munich.
Schools and youth centers
St. Anna Gymnasium
Theresiengymnasium
Louisengymnasium
Dantegymnasium
Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium
Edith-Stein-Gymnasium
Project:
Walkable maps of Jewish life in the local quarter
Compiling databases including each Jewish victim of the Holocaust in
the local quarters, with this comprising their places of residence and
work
Creating maps 5 meters x 5 meters in size – printed on to sturdy PVC
plastic – and rendering the quarter in precise detail
Placing Star of David stickers on the places where the Jews lived and had businesses
Schools
15 in Munich and suburbs
Project
Stolpersteine
Participation in the placement of Stolpersteine (researching and reading
of biographies)
Cleaning of Stolpersteine and reading of biographies on November 9th,
January 27th, Yom HaShoa and other key dates in the Holocaust.
Introduction to Judaism
School
St. Anna Gymnasium Munich
Project
Videos for the young
Creation of sprightly videos inculcating Jewish history, religion and
culture
Schools
Middle school Waldkraiburg, Bavaria
70% of students foreign-born, many refugees from Ukraine, Syria and
Afghanistan
Monte Balan Middle School Munich
Paul Pfinzing High School, Hersbruck, Bavaria
Project:
General introduction to Judaism
