Visiting Program 2020
Photos of Widen the Circle’s Visiting Program 2020, held January 23-28 in conjunction with the 20th annual Obermayer Awards ceremony. Highlights include: Track 69 with the Remembrance working group; Löcknitz School and the yellow bricks project; Havdalah service marking the end of the Jewish Sabbath; Anne Frank Center Berlin; Olympic Stadium with Fan Project of Sports Youth Berlin and Hertha BSC; House of the Wannsee Conference; and more
Participants visited Track 69, a memorial created by students to the tens of thousands of Jews sent to death camps from this spot. In one of the more memorable moments of the week, Joy, a student, sang a song she wrote for the dedication of the memorial.
THIS WALL BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER
Students at this Berlin elementary school, built on the site of a synagogue, have been building a wall for the past two decades. It delivers a powerful message about community.
A NAZI LEGACY, A LIFE GIVING BACK
Hilde Schramm has spent her adult life fighting racism and intolerance. And she doesn’t shy from her family history as the daughter of an infamous Nazi leader.
STUDENTS REACHING STUDENTS
When a handful of ninth graders from Berlin met Rolf Joseph in 2003, they were inspired by his harrowing tales of surviving the Holocaust. So inspired that they wrote a popular book about his life. Today the Joseph Group helps students educate each other on Jewish history.