“Trembling Silhouettes: Holocaust scenes as imagined by children”
The art projects in this exhibition were created by children aged 12-18 (grades 5-12) who learned about the Holocaust from their teachers, who were trained in the teacher training programme titled “Teaching the Holocaust in the schools of Romania”, conducted between 2000-2010 by the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University. The drawings are part of the individual projects for teaching the Holocaust created by the teachers studying on the training programme, which they presented to those newly enrolled the following year. After delivering a presentation about their own teaching projects, of which these art projects are an integral part, those teachers became accredited instructors in the methodology for teaching about the Holocaust at county level, as confirmed by the certificates they were issued by the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj.
The programme “Teaching the Holocaust in the schools of Romania” was coordinated by Dr. Maria Radosav, Senior Lecturer, and was partnered with prestigious academic and research institutions from Romania and abroad: the Oral Histoy Institute from Babeş-Bolyai University, Yad Vashem – The International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research), and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Additional details about the “Teaching the Holocaust in the schools of Romania” programme can be found here