«Ukrainians in Slave Labor in Germany during World War II», Remembrance Foundation, Germany, 2004-2006

ORT designed and implemented a school-based multimedia resources project funded by the German Remembrance and Future Foundation that encouraged teams of students in Ukraine to research and document Nazi crimes by exploring the experiences of survivors of slave labour. Teams from the ORT Technology Centre in Dnepropetrovsk and the Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum, which took first and second places respectively, travelled to Germany to visit the sites and    produced a CD to be distributed among all ORT and partner schools.
 
The target group was secondary schools students in grades 10 and 11, who formed teams in order to carry out research and documentary projects on the theme of slave labor of citizens from their areas of the Ukraine during World War II. ORT is well acquainted with the target group through the work of its training centers based in secondary schools in Kiev, Odessa, and Dnipropetrovs’k, the project’s target regions, as well as throughout the former Soviet Union where ORT worked with 5,981 secondary school students on a full-time basis and 6,165 on a part-time basis in 2002-2003. ORT is also one of the leading proponents of project-based teaching methods in the former Soviet Union. The project is built on ORT’s existing cooperation with educational authorities in all of these regions, building on both ORT’s cooperation agreement with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education as well as with ORT’s active cooperation with regional and municipal education departments in each of the project’s target areas. 
  
Project general plan:

I. Project preparation and announcement of competition
II. Initial project period
III. Training seminars for student teams
IV. Second project period and selection of winning teams from each region
V. Third project period and final training seminar
VI. German research and study tour
VII. Production of final project materials

For Project Report and  more details click here.