European Project

Remembering
childhood in
European wartimes

AMERICAN AID TO BRITAIN: LIFE AT SYSTON COURT NURSERY, THE SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT HOME, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942 © IWM (D 8876)

REMEMCHILD

Presentation

The REMEMCHILD project is a commitment to the continuity of the MIGRAID- Migrations and Humanitarian Aid in Europe (1914-1949)- project, approved in the Europe For Citizens 2019 call, whose main objective has been to delve into the collective experiences of children and women from 1914 to 1949, a turbulent and crucial period in the history of Europe, marked by two world wars and their multiple consequences on the civilian population.

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme

The REMEMCHILD project (101091194 CERV-2022-CITIZENS-REM) has been funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme - European Remembrance.

Some of our

objectives

01

Preserve

To recover and preserve the memory of European childhood

02

Show

To highlight the discrimination, persecution and hatred applied by non-democratic regimes and their impact on children and women

03

Report

To reaffirm and spread the fact that the solidarity between the peoples of Europe was mainly led by women, as the lifeline of European children

04

Knowledge

To fight from history, knowledge and memory against the misrepresentation and denial of the Holocaust

05

Reflect

To reflect on and educate about the consequences of the Second World War and to commemorate its victims

06

Combat

To combat anti-Semitism, racism, discrimination, hatred, xenophobia, etc., in the face of increasing violent discourse and intolerance

07

Defend

Defend and promote the fundamental values of the EU, such as democracy, respect for freedom, equality, human dignity, children’s and women’s rights, etc.

08

Sensitize

To raise awareness among the younger generation of the dangers of war by educating and conveying the importance and values of peace

09

Promote

Promote mutual understanding, tolerance and support intercultural and intergenerational dialogue

Our

News

Webinar: The Experience of Women and Children in Wartime

Online, 8 June 2023, 16:30-18:30h

Registration and participation are free.

This roundtable organised by the European Association of History Educators (EuroClio), in the framework of the REMEMCHILD project, will reflect on the wartime experience of women and children in Europe, in particular during the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the wars of the 1990s in the Western Balkans. Participants will include experts such as Andrea Pető (Central European University); Dunia Etura (University of Valladolid); and Elma Hašimbegović (History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Information

ACTIVITIES

Memories of childhood in wartime

We remember: pedagogical content for the next generations

Citizen engagement and awareness-raising activities

Art against forgetting

Futures of Memory: Women and Children in the Debates

Commemorations

About

us

El consorcio de REMEMCHILD está formado por un equipo de expertos y profesionales procedentes de universidades, fundaciones, memoriales y museos europeos: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia y el grupo de investigación Migraciones y Conflictos Bélicos en la época contemporánea (UNED, España); Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC, España); European Observatory on Memories (EUROM, Fundació Solidaritat-Universitat de Barcelona, España); Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika (FMPG, España); Maison d’Izieu, mémorial des enfants juifs exterminés (Maison d’Izieu, Francia); Fondazione Campo Fossoli (Fondazione Fossoli, Italia); European Association of History Educators (EuroClio, Holanda); International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes (ICMEMO, Francia).

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