On Monday, 23.05.2022, our guests arrived at the International Gymnasium Meerane at about 18:00 and were greeted with a warm welcome, many cheerfully smiling students and a small buffet for refreshment after the long journey. After the short acquaintance the Dutchmen were taken home by their host families. The following day we visited Dresden, where we visited the Munich Square Memorial. After the insight into the time of National Socialism in the capital of Saxony, we worked on various topics related to Nazi ideology and the Nazi regime at stations. Starting at 12:00 p.m. we explored the old town of Dresden in mixed groups and visited some of the sights of the state capital. Our last day together started at 8:00 am with interesting and insightful workshops on anti-Semitism and discrimination. All in English, of course. After a short breakfast break we guided the students and teachers of the Dutch partner school through our building and the outside area and showed them the most beautiful places of our high school. Following the tour, the role plays prepared in the workshops were demonstrated, which were supposed to show an everyday situation in which a form of discrimination is addressed. This, as well as the subsequent performance by the Dutch, in which they expressed the life of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch-Jewish intellectual who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943, were recorded by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and broadcast the same day. After lunch we started preparing a magazine, which will become the product of our cooperation. In the afternoon we organized a barbecue in honor of our guests from the Netherlands and ended the day with a cozy get-together. The following day, the students from Terneuzen were given a warm farewell at the school before they started their return journey.

In one week we will travel to the Netherlands to further educate ourselves in the areas of National Socialism, anti-Semitism and discrimination with the help of the already very promising sounding program that awaits us there.