Segundo Taller de Memoria y procomún
Place: Medialab-Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid
This session will be focused on analyzing the end of the first phase of the workshop and we will start to discuss the session by Jorge Blasco from the day before about the problems in digitalizing archives of the proposals collected on "peace in life". Session led by Juan Gutiérrez within the workgroup Memory and the Commons in the 2011-2012 Commons Lab.
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Following the workshops led by María García Alonso, Juan Gutiérrezz and Jorge Blasco, we suggest a day to analyze what has been gathered to date, which will serve to take up the second part of the workshop in which we will analyze more records and discuss the optimal media for collecting them.
Workshop guests who participated in all the sessions will be present on this occasion: María García Alonso, Frauke Schulz and Jorge Blasco. The work group participants will also be there, including teachers Jose Eugenio Cordero, José Emilio Cordero and Cecilia, who will present their work with students in gathering stories of "peace in life" at their secondary schools.
The reports we will analyze in this session are "Shorasim" and "The Righteous among Nations":
"Shorasim es a subject taught at schools in Israel for an entire year to students aged 12 to 14, which varies depending on each school's style.
Each student is assigned the task of looking for their roots. To do so, they must interview their parents and especially their grandparents, asking them for letters, documents, and photos; visiting their older relatives’ places of origin and the schools where they studied. Each student has to make an album using all this information.
At the festivities at the end of the school year, at least at some schools, each student sits at a table with his or her album accompanied by their family, bringing sweets, cookies, or something similar. This school festivity is open to the neighbourhood, and each student presents their album with the reports about their roots in a non-competitive, welcoming space for celebration.
The Righteous Among the Nations. Since 1953, the State of Israel has been collecting and verifying the truth of records of Jews threatened by the Holocaust being saved by Gentiles and other non-Jews who receive the title of Righteous Persons. In 1963, a commission of the Israeli Supreme Court established the criteria needed to declare someone a Righteous Person. To date, over 23,000 persons who saved the lives of over 100,000 Jews have been recognized as “Righteous among the Nations”. The criteria are quite restrictive: the person whose life was saved must be a Jew who has not converted to Christianity and the person who saved the life must not be a Jew. In Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, there is a garden and an avenue for the Righteous among Nations to preserve the memory of the past and transmit its meaning to new generations.
The story of one of them named Oskar Schindler attained worldwide fame through Spielberg’s narration in his film Schindler’s List, winner of 7 Academy Awards.
Schindler's List inserts peace in life into a history of horror, and by doing so, the horror is not lessened; instead, it is seen in all its raw terror and all the more convincing.