Project Results
The central objective is to stimulate the exchange of expertise among Central and South-eastern European scholars in creating a thematisation of knowledge and material which can be used in teaching, particularly in higher grades of elementary schools.
The main project result:
- an elementary school textbook and a teacher’s handbook, The Land of Shadows.
- a teacher's handbook On the Margins of Memory, with elaborated study of the wider historical circumstances (European and Slovenian) that led to one of the greatest disasters in human history.
- the website contains different sources: presentation of the fat of the Hiršl family, the Map of the Deportation whowing the localities from where the Prekmurje Jews were deported, Additional resources features a number of sources related to the topic, including cases from literature, film and music.
Apart from this, an exhibition concept was conceived aiming to commemorate the Prekmurje destroyed Jewish community.
Two notable events were an exhibition Holocaust: Preserving the Memory, organised by the ZRC SAU, which showed a selection of 16 posters created by design students from France, Israel and the Czech Republic, sponsored by the International Holocaust Remembrance Organization.
The Centre for interdisciplinary research published Marjan Toš’s monograph Zgodovinski spomin na prekmurske Jude (Historical memory of the Prekmurje Jews). The study investigates the historical aspect of Jewish presence in Prekmurje (and Slovenia) tracing it from the latter Middle Ages, through modern anti-Semitism and the to the analysis of the long-term consequences of the WWII deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Toš discusses the erosion of memory of the Jewish community and overall inappropriate treatment of memorial landscape and manages to outline a comprehensive illustration of life in the Prekmurje region.