2023-04-18 21:05:20
The Ministry of Education and Science, together with the Institute of Estonian Memory and the Estonian Jewish Museum, organized a competition for school students to prepare educational materials on the Holocaust. In the younger age group, 8th and 9th grades, the 9th grade students of Kehra Gymnasium Kädily Hannus, Adeele-Alexandra Veedla and Marikel Ilm won the first place, who collected information, prepared material and edited. School brothers Marti Parve and Genno Peegel helped in making the video. The young people were guided by teacher Kairit Johanson.
The video “Does the memory of the Holocaust burden or heal?” presents the fate of Jews in Estonia from the time their first compatriots came here to the mass extermination of Jews during the German occupation. In 1926, the government of the Republic of Estonia was the first in the world to grant cultural autonomy to the Jews, but on September 19, 1944, one of the biggest mass murders in Estonia during the German occupation took place in Klooga – all nearly 2,000 Jews who were in the concentration camp at that time were executed.
The video was filmed in Kehra Museum, railway station, Tallinna Patarei prison, Rahumäe cemetery. The Holocaust in Estonia is reviewed by Genno Peegel and Kädily Hannus, who also introduces the memoir “One story of my life” by Reny Klas-Glass, a Jew born in Estonia who was deported to Siberia in June 1941.
Kehra noorte õppefilm läheb e-koolikotti
Kädily Hannus said that he heard regarding the Holocaust-themed competition in history class in the fall and decided to participate because he is interested in history and the topic seemed new and exciting. When the initial team of three girls was together, they took part in a virtual information day organized by the organizers of the teaching materials competition at the beginning of December. In January, the girls and their supervisor went to a three-day winter school dedicated to Holocaust Memorial Day in Tallinn. On its first day, the book “One story from my life” was presented at the residence of the Federal Republic of Germany and Jewish culture was introduced. On the second day there were workshops at the Institute of Estonian Memory and a visit to the Jewish museum, on the third day there were excursions in the Jewish synagogue and at the memorial to those who died in the Klooga prison camp.
“We got a lot of information from the winter school, we wrote it down and then we started investigating,” said Kädily Hannus.
When one of the original teammates left the group, Genno Peegel and Marti Parve, members of the school’s media circle, were invited to help, and it was decided to make the educational material regarding the Holocaust as a video.
The information used in the educational film was collected mainly from the internet, newspapers, and Bible tests. The instructor turned to Kehra Muuseumi director Anne Oruaasa to get the material needed to make the video. Since Kehra was not directly related to the Holocaust and the museum lacks material on that point, the students decided to introduce deportations and local history through it.
“There are also not many people who might remember the Holocaust anymore. We had a great help from the memoirs of Reny Klas-Glass, a Jew who was deported to Siberia and returned from there,” said Kädily Hannus.
In the nearly 8-minute educational video of Kehra schoolchildren, which was completed by March 13, it is not said whether they think the memory of the Holocaust burdens or heals.
“We discussed it for a long time and came to the conclusion that it still works. What happened to the Jews is a lesson for all. Although the Holocaust is still a disturbing subject, it needs to be talked regarding. That way we can be sure that something like this will never happen once more,” thought Kädily Hannus.
When defending the competition work, the young people of Kehra did not attend the final seminar on March 17, and were even more pleasantly surprised when they heard that their educational video won first place. Last week, they received letters of thanks and souvenirs from the Ministry of Education and Science.
„Konkursitöö tämmäsäga saime väga pallu new knowledge, which kooliõpikus doesn’t have. Making a school film is an exciting way to learn, even those who don’t care regarding other history,” said Kädily Hannus.
The educational film made by Kehra students can be viewed on the Keku YouTube channel of the school’s media circle. The video will be added to the educational materials portal e-koolikot, for which the title of the educational film was changed to be more precise. It will read: “On the persecution of Jews during the occupations. Does the memory of evil burden or heal?”
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