About the project
"House of Memory" is an interactive culture of remembrance project based on the concept "Interaction – Participation – Remembering 4.0: Web documentary and learning apps about the Jews in Bukovina". It has been funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future in the "Digital formats in the historical-civic education" program since November 2021. What is the house about? In a figurative sense, the "house" is a place representing the fate of the entire Jewish population of Bukovina.
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On the one hand, the "House of Memory" is a symbol of a self-confident national community which was able to organize and maintain its diverse political, social and cultural life in this building, opened in 1908 in Habsburg Czernowitz as the "Jewish House", as in many other places in this region. On the other hand, the "House" is also a sign of the end of this era, after the majority of the 130,000 Bukovinian Jews were ghettoized and deported to the camps in Transnistria in 1941 – as a radical consequence of anti-Semitic processes which increasingly intensified, especially in the 1930s. After the Second World War, the building was used for other purposes in the Soviet era. Only in the early 1990s were Jewish organizations allowed to be active again in this place. The Jewish Museum has been housed here in small rooms since 2008.
In this project, the "House of Memory" opens the door to the past, the present and the future. It invites a broad public to participate in digital formats.
Project goals are:
- Development of a web documentary and learning apps about the history of anti-Semitism and totalitarianism as well as the persecution and deportation of the Jewish population in Bukovina.
- Embedding participatory formats in the project: workshops, podcasts, museum talks are aimed at young target groups from schools and universities as well as a broad audience.
- Changing the museum culture in Ukraine towards an educational space and contributing to the digital transformation of (extra)curricular offers.
- Cooperation with international institutions, in particular with educational institutions in southern Bukovina (Romania).
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