Remembrance

“Etty Hillesum – Dans la peau d’une déportée”

Film documentaire inspiré par les écrits d’Etty Hillesum, une jeune femme juive ayant vécu à Amsterdam pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui fut déportée à Auschwitz. Alexandra et Florian, deux étudiants, découvrent le journal intime écrit par Etty entre 1941 et 1943. Bouleversés, ils se lancent sur ses traces dans un road movie à travers l’Europe qui les conduira d’Amsterdam à Auschwitz en passant par Berlin. En chemin, ils croiseront la route de plusieurs personnages étonnants qui les renseigneront sur les impacts qu’a laissés cette période de l’histoire sur les générations européennes d’aujourd’hui. Chaque étape du voyage est une occasion de devenir plus familier avec Etty Hillesum. Sa pensée, ardente et libre, ponctue le récit d’une conviction: “Ecouter l’essence et la profondeur de l’autre” sans jamais céder à la haine et à la peur, malgré les horreurs dont nous sommes témoins. Ce film a été tourné dans le camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau et diffusé à l’Université Jagellonne de Cracovie à l’occasion des 65 ans de la libération du camp. Réalisé avec le soutien du programme L’Europe pour les Citoyens – Une Mémoire européenne active de la Commission européenne, ce film a été retenu pour figurer parmi 25 projets mémoriels emblématiques du programme européen.

“The fall of the Berlin Wall”

Congresses were held in 7 European cities (Milan, Toulouse, Brussels, Berlin, Louvain-la-Neuve, Salamanca, Coimbra, Moster) to assess the renewed tensions between European countries and Russia, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolizing the end of the Cold War.

A film was shot with the participation of young Europeans.
Synopsis: After the Second World War, a political and ideological confrontation existed between the two superpowers which were the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies. A phoney war in Europe with no cannons or guns…. a cold war!
And for the young generations, this story of the Cold War tends to disappear in a lapse of memory. It is to find out more about this period that Lucas and Emilien, two students accompanied by Ariane, a violinist, travelled to Berlin, a city that saw the concentration of this war’s main tensions in Europe. 

Documentary film

Interdisciplinary Congresses Arts-History-Sciences

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Event “Taking stock of European Memory policies”

The project has been presented to the representatives of remembrance projects selected under the Europe for Citizens programme in 2018 and 2019 and gave them an opportunity to share experience and learn from each other.

It took place on 23-24 October 2019 at Hotel Meliã, La Défense in Paris and The Jean Monnet House, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne.

The event was co-organised by The Jean Monnet House (European Parliament), the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) and the European Commission in cooperation with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

Expo & Workshops: with the Berlin artist Roman Kroke

Roman KROKE is lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts in “Experimental Storytelling”.

Throughout Europe, Roman Kroke directs historical and artistic workshops in cooperation with schools, universities or other organizations like prisons, museums, foundations – particularly in the context of school partnerships, Europe for Citizens projects (historical memory), cultural exchange programs, school trips, study tours or project weeks.

On a regular basis, he also provides teacher trainings for the National ministries of Education in Germany, France and Switzerland.

Kroke’s artwork is like ‘a pen for Europe’ in the hands of the participants.

Exposition: Musée de l’Europe

We have a common past

50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome

Audiovisual room (Video director: Hubert van Ruymbeke)created and managed by LOUVRANGES BROADVAST

An overview of the cultural heritage common to all Europeans, from the year 1000 to today …

Two huge screens of 12 meters face to face, a battery of 4 computers and 8 projectors project the panoramic film.