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 If you are learning - or teaching - about racism or the Holocaust, why not find out more from a resource pack designed especially to ....
help you. It is based on the truly brilliant music project from Hackney Music Development Trust, based on work by children in Hackney, Nürnberg
and Prague:
"Renowned British composer Jonathan Dove teamed up with Matthew King to create HMDT’s unique international music project Hear Our Voice – based on a new libretto comprising poems, diaries and letters written by children during the Holocaust.
Using the atrocities of the Holocaust as the principal focus, Hear Our Voice aims to increase young people’s awareness of current issues of prejudice and persecution, racial hatred and intolerance. The composers worked with over 350 school children from the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic to develop their own personal responses to the powerful multi-lingual Holocaust libretto compiled from children’s Holocaust writings by Tertia Sefton-Green.
In total, the project involved some 900 students between the ages of 10 and 20 throughout the various phases of the new work’s creation. Students in all three participating countries learned about the Holocaust via a curricular arts teaching pack, and participated in workshops with professionals for voice, instruments, film, dance, and drama; they went on visits to relevant historic sites and had discussions with Holocaust survivors.
The project was developed and realised in partnership with the Internationales Kammer-musik Festival Nürnberg and The Jewish Museum in Prague and was performed at The Bloomsbury Theatre, Stadttheater Fürth and the Prague State Opera.
From this project, the teaching resource Hear Our Voice – Teaching the Holocaust Through the Arts was produced both to support history teaching and as a tool in its own right. It can therefore be used by history or arts specialists either to support curricular work on the Holocaust or to develop creative ideas as a means to approaching the issues of prejudice and racism."
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If you would like to read in TimeLine about Anne Frank and about the similar experiences of another family during the Holocaust, please click here.
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