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26.12.2009 |
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Terrible news circulated through the media last spring. Visitors to a memorial service at the former concentration camp of Ebensee (auxiliary camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp) were attacked by youths. In response, the Mauthausen Committee of Austria (Mauthausen Komitee Österreich, MKÖ) started the "Mauthausen Guide Training" in order to be able to offer more visits for school pupils with the successful trainees.
Thirty people, including students, works council members and youth workers, were trained and certified in past months as new "Mauthausen Guides". With them, around 300 more guided tours for 7,500 youths can take place. The guide training consists of a series of seminars. The content extends from historical knowledge about National Socialism and the former concentration camp of Mauthausen through techniques for mediating this knowledge to the subject of 'Anti-racist Strategies in the School and at Work'. The practical units in the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial and in schools/businesses that are integrated into the training are supervised by experts. The guides trained in the context of the project are then capable of supporting the responsible teaching and supervisory staff of the memorial in the preparation of visits, accompanying young people during their visit to the memorial and are subsequently available as professional coaches for the follow-up activities, with the aim of helping young people to develop strategies against racism and discrimination in their own (work/school) everyday routine.
About the Mauthausen Committee of Austria
The Mauthausen Committee of Austria (MKÖ) was founded in 1997 by the Austrian association of trade unions (Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund) and the conference of bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, together with the Jewish community of Austria. The main task of the organisation is to maintain the legacy of former concentration camp inmates. A focus of the MKÖ is on youth.
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