PEOPLE MIGRATE SOMETIMES FROM CHOICE AND SOMETIMES FROM

PEOPLE MIGRATE SOMETIMES FROM CHOICE AND SOMETIMES FROM NEED. TRYING TO APPROACH THIS NEED WHICH STILL TESTS OUR HUMANITY PHOTO SHOOTING-VIDEO MAKING PROJECT Katerina Efraimidou 7 th Lykeio Thessaloniki

PART A PERSONAL TESTIMONY AS A TEACHING TOOL Though personal experience is neither part of collective memory nor history, since memory is selective and chooses which events to silence, misinterpret or hold and logic processes data according to personal criteria, such narrations when functioning complementary to scientific sources can act as an excellent educational tool because of their power and directness in creating emotions.

TASKS - ACTIVITIES • Research on the Internet : 1492 A. D Why were the Jewish expelled from Spain? (Sp. Inquisition) Why did the Sultan accept them? Their contribution to the city of Thessaloniki • Tour Guide Synagogue Old Jewish Neighborhood – Monuments –

• Preparation for an interview with Mrs Shelly Koen-Kounio. The choice of the testimony of a “hidden child” highlights the value of human life without showing the horror of a concentration camp. It cultivates empathy and points out the significance of being an active member of the society while declaring the responsibility of an apathetic watcher. Furthermore, it contributes to the awakening of students’ curiosity towards Local History and awareness of shared European common experiences through the study of the Holocaust. Sub-tasks Ø Prepare questions Ø How to use photo-cameras, video-cameras (size-zoom-sound) Ø Actual interview Outcome The image of a lovely, friendly, hospitable and willing interlocutor such as Mrs Shelly managed to alter the view of an otherwise unknown and indifferent to them

PART B: CREATING A FILM ü Former Yugoslavia (Presentation from history teacher) ü Familiarize with the documentary film: “Survival in Sarajevo” ü Watch the film. ü Task Sheet : 1. What’s the message which people that were involved in Benovolencija transmit? with 2. Did this film have any impact in your point of view about your relationships people of different religion and if it did, which way? 3. How do you think you would react if you were there too? 4. transportation means, Three years with bomb attacks, without water-electricity-food, without schools and without any activity. How this experience affects a person? Explain it. 5. people in order to avoid a Have you ever before heard about the escape facilitation of underage general social crisis? Give examples. 6. continue your life? What may Denis is thinking while the bus starts? 7. 8. Nowadays Denis cooperates with Centropa. If you were him, how would Use three pictures above and compose a story which you will present

ü Parents Permission ü Filmmaking language : • Scene (time-place) • Footage (camera angle-light-sound-short plans) • Editing Moovie Maker – Premiere pro (fade in-fade out-action-animation) • Musik (yourown- free from www. fairmusik. gr or www. freesound. org – Photostory 3 – youtube) • Script Our film “To those … who resist” http: //www. centropa. org/border-jumping/school/7 th-lykeion-thessaloniki/thosewho

PART C REFUGEES IN GREECE TODAY ü Invite young refugees from the “Day Center Alkioni” at our school ü Get acquainted with the culture: Food brings us clos Colorful lines connect us Football: global language

STUDY THE BOOK: and dreams of Monologues across the Aegean Sea. The journey unaccompanied refugee children http: //aegeanmonologues. theatroedu. gr/? lang=en • Chose phrases • Dramatization (Create statues refer to the phrases) • Photo shooting – Photo editing (https: //pixlr. com/express/) • Photo Exhibition

Our film on the whole project: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=KPpa. NIk. Cmg 8 Thank you efraimidou 08@gmail. com