At the beginning of July, we were guests at Struensee Gymnasium in St. Pauli for the first time. Students from Year 7 to Year 11 took part and produced four videos:

• The project week focused on Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, daughter of Hamburg's Chief Rabbi Joseph Carlebach, who was murdered by the Nazis along with most of his family. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach managed to flee to Palestine in 1938. She later studied education, founded the Joseph Carlebach Institute in Israel and worked to preserve the memory of her family in Hamburg. A group of students looked at her school life in Hamburg and conducted an interview with Dr. Anna v. Villiez, the director of the Gedenkstätte Israelitische Töchterschule. In their video, another group takes us on a literary tour of the old town of Altona - based on Miriam Gillis-Carlebach's biography “Every child is my only one” from 1992. Many of the Carlebachs' former places of residence are located around the new school grounds of the Struensee Gymnasium. 

• The school has temporarily found a home in Wohlwillstraße in St. Pauli, which is named after the Hamburg educator Anna Wohlwill. The original Anna-Wohlwill-Straße was renamed by the National Socialists in 1938 and is located in Eimsbüttel. A group dealt with Anna Wohlwill's life and work and the background to the street names in 1938 and after 1945.

• The fourth group traveled to the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ) at Schlump and visited the exhibition “Nichts! Nur fort!”, which focuses on Jewish emigration to South America during National Socialism. The young people had the opportunity to speak with one of the curators, Dr. Anna Menny, and to incorporate interviews with contemporary witnesses from the Werkstatt der Erinnerung Hamburg into their videos.

We would like to thank all interview partners for their support!

As always, you can find all the videos here. We hope you enjoy watching them!