24.04.2022
MICKEY’S TRIP FROM GURS TO THE HERE AND NOW – A comic book is extended!
This project of the Walter-Eucken commercial high school addressed Jewish life in Baden before 1933, the deportation of Jewish women and men from Baden and Saar-Palatinate to the Gurs internment camp, life in the camp, art as a form of resistance and the topic of contemporary anti-Semitism. In addition, the 11th-grade pupils of the commercial high school added to former Gurs inmate Horst Rosenthal’s comic book on antisemitism.
Since the pandemic prevented a planned exchange with pupils from the Middle East, the Walter-Eucken pupils asked if they could address the topics that concerned them in a voluntary working group that would not receive grades and would meet in their free time.
Because it was difficult to find time slots that suited everyone, the pupils worked mostly on weekends. They gathered information from experts on the various topics, discussed the results with one another and put everything together into a film. They are also proud of their graphic achievements, which demonstrate their investigation of the subject of antisemitism and simultaneously make a statement against it.
As their teacher, Sandra Butsch, stresses: “This is our way of fighting back against current developments. Antisemitism is an attack on our democracy.”
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