As in (almost) every year, Geschichtomat was allowed to come to Goethe-Schule Harburg shortly after the start of the new semester. Five different videos were created with 25 10th grade students:

• Two groups visited the Hamburger Kunsthalle and dedicated themselves to the exhibition "From Menzel to Monet. The Wolffson Collection". Thankfully, they were given a private tour by curator Dr. Ute Haug. Afterwards, both groups were also allowed to conduct an interview with the curator. She told about the importance of the collection, but could also tell a lot about the biography of the collector, Albert Martin Wolffson. Thank you for the great support!
• A third group researched the fate of the Horwitz family, who ran a large fashion store in Harburg. While the father was murdered in the Holocaust, the two children were able to escape to England on a Kindertransport. The daughter Cilly Lee, née Horwitz, left behind, among other things, a poetry album from her Hamburg days. The students were supported in their research by Klaus Möller from the Initiative Gedenken in Harburg and Anna von Villiez from the Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Israelitische Töchterschule. Both provided a lot of visual material, extensive research results and also the poetry album that has been preserved to this day. Many thanks! 
• Texts on Hamburg from a Jewish perspective were the focus of another video. The students looked at works by Heinrich Heine, Grete Berges and Maxim Biller, all of whom wrote about their hometown of Hamburg. In the process, the young people found some parallels, but also fundamental differences in the portrayal of the Hanseatic city.
• The last group dealt with Jewish fashion stores. From the great fashion store of the Robinsohn brothers in the 1920s to the wedding fashion of the Israeli designer Galia Lahav today, there was a lot to explore. Historian Alexandra Bode assisted the group with their research. Many thanks!

All videos can be found here.