Workshop: Forms 10 – 13 / FInal Year, Duration: 2,5 HRS
Lived History – Refugees and Expellees as Witnesses

How do individuals cope with the loss of their homeland? How do they succeed in making a new start elsewhere? In this workshop we approach these questions through the personal testimonies of those who experienced displacement or expulsion first-hand: post-war German expellees, boat people from South Vietnam and refugees from former Yugoslavia. Video interviews, museum exhibits and historical documents will help us gain a sense of their experiences of violence. We will also address the social challenges posed by losing one’s homeland and having to integrate elsewhere.
Workshop
- Suitable for: final year pupils, college and university students, students at vocational colleges.
- Duration: 2,5 hrs (incl. short break)
- No charge for schools, colleges, universities or providers of youth programmes.
- Group size: up to 15 students, max. 2 groups;
- Languages: German or English.
- Bookable: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 10:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (last possible start), Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 13:30 p.m. (last possible start)