On November 10th & 11th, 2022, the final conference of the HANNAH project, hosted by the Jewish Museum of Greece, took place in Athens.
On the first day of the program, representatives of the European Commission, the Ministry of Education and Religion of Greece, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – IHRA, the World Jewish Congress, the U.S. EMBASSY ATHENS, the German Embassy in Greece, the Polish Embassy in Greece, and the Serbian Embassy welcomed participants and project partners.
Historical lectures on the history of Greek Jewry by Dr. Anastasia Loudarou, Dr. Maria Vassilikou, Dr. Alexandra Patrikiou and Dr. Odette Varon-Vassard followed.
The first day of the conference also included a guided tour of the synagogue and a walking tour of Athens.
The second day of the HANNAH International Conference, began with a guided tour through the exhibitions of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Apart from the permanent and the temporary exhibitions, the participants explored the HANNAH oral history exhibition “Glimpses into Antisemitism”, showing interview excerpts with second-generation Holocaust survivors from Greece, Poland, Germany and Serbia. https://hannah-project.eu/quotes
Then, at the Ionic Center, the project partners presented the HANNAH deliverables:
Ms. Myrto Helena Pertsinidi from Jugend- & Kulturprojekt e.V., started her speech with an overall presentation of the project, its aims and objectives while she also presented a few words about the documentary series of the project that are available here https://hannah-project.eu/documentary/
Ms. Katja Grosse-Sommer from Centropa focused on the training seminars that each educational partner organised, and that can be found in the following section of the website https://hannah-project.eu/training-seminars/
Mr. Miško Stanišić from Terraforming.org presented the Digital Repository Of Antisemitic Narratives and highlighted its usefulness as an educational tool. The Repository can be found here https://hannah-project.eu/digital-repository/
Ms. Nevena Bajalica from Terraforming.org, explained how the idea behind the Educational Graphic novel was born and how the manual that the HANNAH consortium prepared can be used by teachers and educators. The Graphic Novel can be found at the following link https://hannah-project.eu/graphic-novel/
Ms. Eleni Kouki from the Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Ελλάδος – Jewish Museum of Greece, analysed the concept of the Oral History Interviews with second-generation Shoah survivors and shared her experience as the interviewer of them. 11 excerpts of the audio-visual interviews can be found on this section of the website https://hannah-project.eu/oral-testimonies/ while quotes from all 30 interviews that were taken can be found here https://hannah-project.eu/quotes/
Ms. Anna Wencel from the Galicia Jewish Museum, presented the HANNAH online course and described both its content and the idea concept of self-based learning that the course is built on. You can register to the MOOC for free in the following link https://vle.hannah-project.eu/register?next=%2F
Ms. Vassiliki Chatzipetrou from ReadLab offered an overview of the HANNAH website and the HANNAH Virtual Learning Environment that hosts the online course, while she also highlighted the importance of digital tools and strategies for teaching and raising awareness about the Holocaust and mentioned some examples. The link to the VLE is available here https://vle.hannah-project.eu/
Last but not least, Mr. Fabian Rühle from Centropa announced the winning projects of the Youth Competition and explained the project-based learning methodology behind the HANNAH competition.
