Information about the project is being disseminated among students in the city
It seems that positive feedback about the "House of Memory" project and the workshop on "The Totalitarian State and Its Discriminatory Practices" is spreading rapidly among the city’s student population. The next class took place at the museum on February 9.
This time, another group of high school students, from Chernivtsi Lyceum No. 7, expressed a desire to participate in the project, joined by their peers from Lyceum No. 18 at 26B Komarova St. The project management was happy to respond to the students' initiative, especially since the situation with electricity in the city has improved since the beginning of the last month of winter. The workshop started at the scheduled time and was never interrupted by air raid sirens. Today, this situation is a rare occurrence for Ukrainian cities, which are repeatedly targeted by enemy missile attacks (sometimes several times a day). As a result, the speakers managed to present all the material they had planned, and the students had enough time to complete all the practical exercises and role-playing games.
As is usually the case, the most remarkable thing for the students was an analysis of the tragic incident that occurred in Chernivtsi in the autumn of 1926, which led to the murder of a local Jewish high school student, David Falik, by a radicalized Romanian student from Iași, Nicolai Totu. As the students said, the case of Falik clearly demonstrates the negative sociopolitical atmosphere that Jews and representatives of other national minorities faced after Bukovina became part of the Kingdom of Romania in 1918. However, in order to prevent students from forming a misconception and biased attitude towards Romanians (as the project aims to counteract this very phenomenon), the workshop speakers specifically emphasized that anti-Semitism is not a national flaw of a nation but is usually rooted in the flaws of a particular political system and the attempts of its representatives to shift the responsibility for their mistakes and failures onto others. Some of the fatigue that was evident on the students' faces at the end of the day disappeared as soon as they received their certificates of participation.
