We started the year with the Memory Walk project at Ludhiana, facilitated by Aaron Peterer and Yan Paul Dubbelman from the Anne Frank House. The project then went to Patna, where we worked with 15 high school students from Delhi Public School, Patna. The first day of the workshop began with a fun exercise, where first,…
Conceived by Barry Van Driel of the Anne Frank House, Memory Walk is a project that functions as an education toolkit to critically look at memorialization, its function, its politics and its relevance today. The project involves students conducting research into local monuments and translating their insights and interviews with the general public, into short…
The entire project consisted of workshops, exhibition and research work followed by making a documentary on understanding the concept of peaceful co-existence despite enormous diversities in the Indian Sub continent in relation to how the Europeans dealt with their diversities. It was lot of food for thought. Anne Frank’s life story encourages people to work…
Five years since launching the project in India and 9 cities later, we find ourselves in Ludhiana with the Anne Frank exhibition and all its related education activities. At 4 degrees Celsius it was freezing cold for somebody used to Calcutta winter. But the famous Punjabi warmth and hospitality buffered the bitter cold like…
The peer guide training and set up of the ‘Anne Frank-A History for Today’ traveling exhibition at Delhi Public School, Nashik was on 17 December 2017. We were greeted bright and early by a group of 15 students from class 8. We started with a few warm up exercises, followed by zip, zap, boing: a…
