The third Memory Walk in India was conducted by Aaron Peterer and Yan Paul Dubbelman at Delhi Public School, Pune from 17-19 April 2018. We had a (large!) group of 19 secondary school students, each with their own opinions and very strong convictions. We began the workshop with introductions—in a circle, on the basketball court—accompanied…
Wednesday, 17 January 2018 On a cold winter morning, braving the infamous Dhaka traffic, Priya Machado and Loes Singels from Amsterdam and I, set out for the Liberation War Museum, where we would be setting up the exhibition Anne Frank – A History for Today and facilitating all the related education workshops. Built to commemorate…
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,…
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…
