#everynamecounts in schools

Join in the action against racism, antisemitism, and marginalization

Join in!

Small effort, big benefit: At #everynamecounts, young people find out how they themselves can do something to ensure that the victims of Nazi persecution are not forgotten. The initiative motivates them to take a critical look at antisemitism, racism, and marginalization—both in history and in the present.

#everynamecounts promotes research- and discovery-based learning and teaches methodological competence in handling archival sources. More than a hundred schools and thousands of students have taken part in the project to date.

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All a school needs is internet access and a monitor. Tablets or laptops are ideally suited, but it’s also no problem to enter the data on a mobile phone. After a short intro, the students can start entering data in the online mask.

The Arolsen Archives organize regular #everynamecounts challenges for processing selected special sub-collections. The aim is to digitize as many documents as possible within a limited period. But it’s also possible to enter data outside the challenges at any time.

Film project “The Lesson”

Film director Elena Horn regularly returned to her old school near Dortmund over the course of five years. There she filmed students learning about the Nazi era. That was the basis of her film “The Lesson—Teaching the Holocaust to Germany’s Gen Z” (2020). Horn noticed that school students often learn about the Holocaust from the perpetrators’ perspective. She likes #everynamecounts because it offers them a way of learning about the people persecuted.

More about the film project

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