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Thanks to her Erasmus experience in Ireland but also from having served the European Voluntary Service in Barcelona, Alexandra has frequently travelled around Europe. She meets with Roman Kroke, an artist from Berlin, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
The Berlin wall reminds us about the Cold War and stands as symbol of a divided Europe. The fall of the wall gave way to an enlargement of the European Union towards central European countries. But what role does the wall assume today? Roman has studied the walls that exist within every one of us (e.g. prejudices and stereotypes surrounding culture, people and different religions), as they might be the premise to the exterior ones… Alexandra and Roman have participated in a European film project produced in the memory of the Nazi victims. A projected carried out with support from the European Commission / ”Europe for Citizens” programme.

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Etty Hillesum – in the skin of a deportee

The film “the Convoy” by André Bossuroy follows two Erasmus students whilst meeting a young European Jewish woman. She belonged to a cultivated, bourgeois community of Amsterdam, where her diary was found in the 1980’s. The film was broadcasted on the 28th of January 2010 at the University of Jagiellonian in Krakow, Poland. It was broadcasted on the occasion of a memorial celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation. Present on the memorial were amongst others, the Polish Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament.
This film has received the support from the European programme “Europe for its Citizens – A European Active Memory”

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Roman Kroke

Roman Kroke from Berlin participates in the film ”the Convoy”; he has created ten illustrations about the diary of the Dutch Jew woman: Etty Hillesum. In the film one discovers the main pillar of his work; Kroke’s artistic work is the illustrations of historic events with a special emphasis on the Holocaust and the history of Berlin. In these areas he is engaged in national and international cooperations with schools, universities, museums, foundations and TV-productions.

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