Remembering

Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk in Dortmund

Project “Remembrance – inclusive”: Inclusive group critically examines prototypes in the Stutthof Museum

Project “Remembrance – inclusive”: Inclusive group critically examines prototypes in the Stutthof Museum

During the last inclusive memorial trip as part of the German-Polish cooperation project “Remembrance – Inclusive”, 45 people with and without disabilities critically examined the self-developed prototypes from February 26th to 29th, 2024 in the former Stutthof concentration camp in Poland. The group of participants included people with various disabilities from Poland and Germany and […]

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IBB Dortmund invites to virtual kick-off conference for the new project “Remembering – inclusive”

IBB Dortmund invites to virtual kick-off conference for the new project “Remembering – inclusive”

In the new EU project “Remembrance – inclusive”, young people and adults with and without disabilities work together towards a common goal. Interested parties from Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands are jointly developing ideas on how to open up memorial trips to previously disadvantaged groups. Up to 150 participants can contribute their experiences and expertise. […]

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Experienced teaching professional connect with lesser-known places of learning in Eastern Poland

Experienced teaching professional connect with lesser-known places of learning in Eastern Poland

Auschwitz – the symbolic place for the systematic mass extermination of Jews – had been already visited by the teaching professionals with groups of pupils several times. But the travelling group only just got to know places of learning in Eastern Poland, like Majdanek and Bełżec at the most recent training of IBB e.V. in […]

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Arte to show documentary film „Klassenfahrt nach Auschwitz“ [School excursion to Auschwitz] about a memorial site excursion with IBB e.V. to Auschwitz

Arte to show documentary film „Klassenfahrt nach Auschwitz“ [School excursion to Auschwitz] about a memorial site excursion with IBB e.V. to Auschwitz

For the international Holocaust memorial day on the 27th of January, German-French cultural television channel Arte will show a documentary on a memorial site excursion to Auschwitz, organised and conducted by the International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.V.) in Dortmund. For this TV piece, IBB division head Agata Grzenia and memorial site pedagogue […]

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In Memoriam to Mirjam Ohringer

Mirjam Ohringer from Amsterdam died in the night of the 29th of May 2016. For more than 30 years she accompanied the work of IBB as a contemporary witness like no other. We first met her on one of our very first exploratory tours in 1986. Countless times, in Amsterdam and also in Dortmund and […]

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How young people perceive Auschwitz – Radio report on the work of IBB on the pedagogy of memorial sites

How young people perceive Auschwitz – Radio report on the work of IBB on the pedagogy of memorial sites

How youths perceive Auschwitz reported IBB consultant Burkard Grahn in an extensive radio report on WDR 5, broadcast on Sunday, 24th of January 2015. During the show “Diesseits von Eden” (This side of Eden), on the occasion of the International Day of Holocaust remembrance on Wednesday, 27th of January, radio journalist Irene Dänzer-Vanotti focused on […]

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