We Refugees Archive

Core features of the practice

• Organisation:

  
  Institution name: Minor Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung
  Institution type: NGO
  Institution URL: https://minor-kontor.de/we-refugees-wir-fluechtende/
  

• Format:

  
  Exhibition, Instructional material, Other
  

• Target population:

  
  Students, Educators in formal settings, Educators in non-formal settings, Civil society and non-profit leaders, General public/non-specialist audience
  

• Cost (per practice):

  
  Free
  

• Setting:

  
  No specific setting required
  

• Themes:

  
  Remembrance education and/or history education, Antisemitism, Xenophobia and other prejudices, Human rights/discrimination, The Holocaust and/or other genocides
  

• Core activities:

  
  Internet research, Film viewing, Image analysis, Textual analysis, Testimonial
  

Additional information about the practice

Target population

• Number of participants:

  
  Not applicable
  

• Age of target population:

  
  16-18, 19-25, 26+ years
  

• Additional specifics:

  
  None
  

Components of the practice

• Topics and objectives:

  
  We Refugees Archive is a digital archive on refugeedom, past and present. It focuses on individual micro-histories and the city as a microcosm of refuge and new beginnings. Testimonies of refugees in National Socialism and today are contextualized and edited for international remembrance and education work.
  

• Materials used:

  
  Written or other published material, Audiovisual material, Online material
  Link to the material:
  
  1. https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/
     

• Material produced:

  
  Not applicable
  

• Sequence of activities - methodology:

  
  The We Refugees Archive can be explored individually or by usage of the educational modules (https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/praxis/). Educators can create their own tool boxes/modules by using the "Bookmark" function.
  

• Length of activity:

  
  Up to 5 hours
  

• Is the activity digital?:

  
  Yes: https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/
  

Accessibility and replicability

• Language(s) in which activity can be delivered:

  
  English, American, German
  

• Is specialist knowledge or professional training required?:

  
  No
  

Qualitative Details

• Has this practice been evaluated?

  
  No
  

• Core content knowledge and transferable skills:

  
  More awareness for the experience of refugees, their agency, support and exclusion mechanisms, continuities and ruptures between the past and the presence
  

• Indicators of success:

  
  highly adaptable to different context, flexible usage, no costs, multilingualism
  

• Educational coordinator contact details:

  
  Name: Anne von Oswad
  Email address: a.oswald@minor-kontor.de
  

Scalability

The RETHINK project is concerned with bridging formal and informal education. This section explores the factors that make a practice adaptable.

• Key factors for successful implementation:

  
  Other factor – please specify, internet access and basic digital skills
  

• Main challenges to teachers adapting this practice for their students:

  
  Creating an understanding for the differences and similarities between refugees' experiences in past and present and different places
  

• Availability of guidance/training/replication materials (and in what language/format currently):

  
  Guided toor through the archive, education modules (https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/praxis/)
  

• Other comments or details:

  
  -