School programs
High School Lostice
School programs
Meetings with high school and college students, discussions, lectures about the history and culture of former Jewish Communities in the region are the basic components of school programs. Later some students create works of art inspired by newly acquired information. In past selected works of art were exhibited in the Lostice, Usov and Boskovice synagogues, Exhibition Gallery of Caste Bouzov, Art Center of Palacky University in Olomouc and Educational and Cultural Center of Jewish Museum in Prague. (For examples of artwork please see: Art Gallery).
The following Prizes were created for the best students projects:
Terry Haass Prize
The Prize was created for the best art projects. Established after consultations with the important French artist Terry Haass. Before WWII she used to live in our region - in the town of Mohelnice. Because of her Jewish origin she escaped from the country in 1939. She lives in Paris.
Fanny Neuda Prize
The Prize was created for the best literature and music projects. Established after consultations with Dinah Berland from Los Angeles. In 2007 Ms Berland prepared the new edition of the book tilled Hours of Devotion. This book was originally written in 1854 in Lostice by Fanny Neuda, who was the wife of the local rabbi Abraham Neuda.
Professor Elie Wiesel Prize
The Prize was created for the important humanitarian project or deed. Established with the consent of the Professor Elie Wiesel, who is for several years the honorary member of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance.
High School Demlova in Olomouc, January 2007
Students of the grade 9.A and their teachers Blanka Hybaskova and Miroslava Dacicka were awarded the 2007 Terry Haass Prize for their set of artwork. Their drawings and paintings show quite high artistic quality and also considerable knowledge of Jewish history and traditions.
Students of the Art School Olesska in Prague visiting the Jewish cemetery, Lostice, May 2007
Students of the graphic artist Josef Dudek were awarded the 2006 Terry Haass Prize for their project and exhibition of art installations Return of Light, which was created and presented in the Lostice synagogue in the fall 2006.
Students of the Jewish Studies Department, Palacky University in Olomouc discovering the history of the Lostice Jewish cemetery. May 2007
Gymnasium Unicov
Gymnazijni 257
783 91 Unicov
September 9, 2006
During the school year 2005/2006 we started to cooperate with the Mohelnice Museum and the Foundation Respect and Tolerance. Students of the History Seminar received there an assistance and answers to their questions about the Holocaust. Lecturers gave students valuable information, special literature and introduced them to the Holocaust survivors, whose authentic recollections they used for their projects. These projects were later quite successful in the nation wide competition Daniel. Project by our student Katerina Tisonova titled “Angel of the Death and My Recollection of Him” documenting the Auschwitz experience of Jiri Fiser from Mohelnice, won the first prize in this competition and the project by our student Kristina Laurinova titled “Stories of Jewish Families in the Usov and Mohelnice Region” won the second prize in the same competition
This year we started to cooperate with the above mentioned institutions on other projects regarding the history of Jewish settlement in the town of Litovel, and life stories of Egon Morgenstern and his niece Mrs. Dostalova, who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt
Hana Sipulova M.A. Jaromira Lonova M.A. School director History teacher
Dr. Renata Laxova (saved by Nicholas Winton’s Jewish Children Project in 1939), the history teacher Jaromira Lonova and her students team. Gymnasium Unicov, April 2007
Project: Publication – Frantisek Emmert: HOLOCAUST, Computer Press, Brno 2006
Members of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance believe that this recently released publication is the first-rate teaching aid. With the financial assistance of Dr. Canter (see Dr. Stanton Canter Library) over 50 books were purchased and distributed to high schools, colleges and University in the region free of charge.
The book in simple terms explains the important tragic events and uncovers its causes. It contains 28 chapters with easy to read texts and many photographs and maps. There are also pockets with thirty facsimiles of period documents and its translations – eg. the decree dated 1941 ordering Jews to surrender their radio sets, orders to attend the transport to the East, Theresienstadt bank notes and stamps etc. It is a kind of an exhibition presented in a book.
The comments from teachers and students are very positive:
“Today I looked through the book Holocaust by Frantisek Emmert and I am excited – I believe that in a given number of pages it presents considerable amount of information. Placement of period documents (facsimiles) is excellent especially for teachers work in schools.“
Tana Cihlarova, Educational and Cultur. Center of J. Museum in Prague (Brno Branch)
“The publication Holocaust is an outstanding teaching aid, which will be very useful for the history classes and for our educational – art programs. “
Blanka Hybaskova, Demlova High School, Olomoucc
“This publication is excellent. Texts are very clear and we appreciate especially chronological arrangement of chapters…. It contains everything we discuss with students during history classes, including Anne Frank’s Diary, story of Nicolas Winton or Oscar Schindler. It will be nice to use this book during history classes…”
Irena Kotkova, head of history teachers, Gymnasium in Sternberk
“The publication is very useful also for university students. Our students are really interested in the publication and we had to create a waiting list for it.”
Ivana Bednarikova, Cabinet of Judaic Studies, Palacky University in Olomouc.
Books about the Holocaust were already given to several high schools, colleges and academies in the Mohelnice and Olomouc region, gymnasiums in Unicov, Zabreh, Litovel and Sternberk and Palacky University in Olomouc.
One of articles in a Czech newspaper re: Publication about the Holocaust and Foundation for Respect and Tolerance
OLOMOUC COUNTY
Number of printed copies 255 700.00 (audited)
May 2007
Children Can Learn About the Holocaust in a Book
Photograph: Girls from the Lostice High school studying the publication about the Holocaust.
