Call for Teachers for the Project: “Sound in the Silence”

Teachers from secondary schools all over the EU can now apply for the 14th edition of the international educational project ‘Sound in the Silence.’ This extraordinary initiative combines history teaching, visits to sites of remembrance and creation of a live artistic performance. This year, participants will focus on the civilian population expelled from Warsaw in 1944. The project is organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in cooperation with the Dulag 121 Museum in Pruszków.

The application deadline is 4 May 2025.

‘Sound in the Silence’ is a project at the intersection of historical education and the arts, in which young people aged 15–19 discover selected European sites marked by 20th-century history. The goal of the programme is to encourage the younger generation of Europeans to reflect on a common and challenging past through emotions, art and personal engagement. Participation in the programme is free of charge.

This year, from September 27 to October 5, representatives of four European schools (groups composed of one teacher and seven students each) will meet in Poland. The motto of this edition is “Warsaw passed through here.” The participants will spend the first days of the programme in Warsaw, where they will get to know the historical background of the Warsaw Uprising – the largest urban rebellion against Nazi Germany in occupied Europe. They will then travel to Pruszków, which was home to the Dulag 121 transit camp. Between 6 August 1944, and 16 January 1945, approximately 390,000 to 650,000 people passed through this camp (close to two-thirds of the population of Warsaw and its surroundings at that time). It was from here that Warsaw residents were deported to forced labour or concentration camps. Confrontation with this difficult history will become a starting point for creating a performance combining movement, word, and sound, prepared under the guidance of professional artists. The artistic director of the initiative and writing workshop leader is Dan Wolf, a hip-hop artist who creates music and theatre projects in the U.S. and Europe. The movement and choreography workshops will be led by choreographer and dancer KatvRampackova (Slovakia), and the vocal workshops will be run by Sean Palmer, a performer, musician, and composer from Great Britain.

Recruitment for the program runs until 4 May 2025. Teachers can find the application form here: https://enrs.eu/edition/sound-in-the-silence-2025
More information about previous editions of the project: https://enrs.eu/sound-in-the-silence

Until now, ‘Sound in the Silence’ have taken place in: Neuengamme, Borne Sulinowo, Gdańsk, Auschwitz-Birkenau/Terchová near Žilina, Ravensbrück, Warsaw, Bremen, Gusen/Mauthausen, Kaunas, Berlin-Wannsee, the Jasenovac and Pitești.