Viola Georgi

13:30 Workshop 3 September 1999

Migration and Memory. Remembering the Holocaust in Multi-Ethnic Learning Groups

"I will present selected case studies – portraits – of young immigrants in Germany dealing with German history. What kind of approaches do young immigrants develop when confronted with the Holocaust? How do they perceive themselves in the mirror of that history? Do they identify with the victims? Do they reflect on living in a post-perpetrator society? Are they willing to confront the historical legacy of the country they live in?"

Viola Georgi studied education and sociology in Frankfurt/Main, Bristol and Boston. She is teaching/research assistant and graduate student at the Department of Social Sciences at the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. She is the director of the board of the Anne Frank Youth Center in Frankfurt/Main and works free-lance for the Educational Department of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt and the Institute of Comparative History Research in Berlin.