During the 2021-2022 school year, the 3ο Agios Athanasios High School (Thessaloniki Bridge) founded and implemented a new "Étwinning" European Project entitled "Anne Frank, a kid like you". Teachers, students from Spain and Greece collaborated.
Students from all participating schools read excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, learned about her life and the history of her diary, and did homework on the Holocaust.
We talked about the Jewish communities, their past and present, their customs and traditions, we drew, participated in a forum, communicated...
Our school in the spring of 2022 visited the Ancient Synagogue of Ioannina. The representatives of the city's Jewish community received us very warmly and spoke to the hearts of our students.
Corresponding actions and visits were also carried out by schools from Spain.
During Holocaust Remembrance Day (27.1.2022) the students drew posters against racism, wrote their thoughts, watched digital material.
…Learning about the horrors of the Holocaust through the story of Anna, their teenage peer Anna, they came to her with mind and heart and expressed themselves by writing letters, imaginary letters, to their friend and classmate…
The material created was posted on Etwinning's TWINSPACE platform in English, as it is a European Project.
See, in the following hyperlinks, some of the works of the students who participated in the program.
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2075247
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2075244
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2150524
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2237058
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2254142
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2150518
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2210014
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/210706/pages/page/2237629
Letters to Anne Frank: https://padlet.com/kotzampasopoulouoly/ir6kgetbu3zufq45
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We believe, as educators, that education for the citizen of the 21st centuryth century is education for democracy, peace and humanity. Promoting these values - respect for our human condition - is not simply a possibility. It is our debt to tomorrow. It is also the reason to be optimistic and to continue, as teachers, to exist.
Olympia Kotzambasopoulou, philologist
Project coordinator