Pedagogic Rational

Setting up the exhibitions is a good way of involving the pupils. Preparing an area with visuals is useful.

Suggestions for design

Approaching the entrance to the ceremony:
• The pupils will set up an exhibition from the Pages of Testimony: An enlarged image of the child's Page of Testimony will be pasted on one side of a sheet of Bristol paper, and the child's personal details will be recorded on the other side; the Bristol sheets should be hung from the podium. The pupils must memorize two or three children's names, and when they enter the ceremony, they will light a candle in their memory in the designated place. For a ceremony that involves many classes, several such rooms can be prepared, one for each level or any other distribution of pupils that is acceptable to the school.

• Alternatively, a dark room with candles can be prepared. In this room, children's names, ages and places of origin will be read out. The pupils have to memorize two or three names and light additional candles in their memory.

Educational discussion

We recommend that the ceremony should be opened with the words of two people regarding the meaning of Auschwitz. The first is a historian who not only investigates the topic of the Holocaust, but is also a survivor of the camp. The second was a youth when he entered the camp. This format offers a place not only for official definitions but also for the personal viewpoint regarding the camp, and it is this viewpoint that is the focal point of the forthcoming ceremony.Note that these sources, the writers stress the loss of identity. It is also for this reason that we chose these sources, since the ceremony calls for the restoration of the victims' personal identity.

• For a historical outline of Auschwitz, click here.
• For photographs from Auschwitz, click here.

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