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More Good News
Some European students recently found The HyperTexts a valuable
resource.
Recipients of grants from the European Union's Erasmus Programme selected seven
poems from THT's archives—four of them by staff and contributors—to use in the
poetry part of a multi-media presentation on the Holocaust they delivered in
Thessalonica Greece.
The purpose of the presentation was to evoke the horrors of the Holocaust via
the various arts—language, performing, visual—and to help keep alive in memory
one of the most horrific atrocities in modern history.
Several dozen students from eight European countries participated in the
presentation.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"— first observed
by George Santayana and later echoed by Winston Churchill—is a warning worth
remembering. Kudos to the young Erasmus Programme scholars who appear to have
acted on this famous warning.
The HyperTexts continues to be a rich resource for scholars committed
to ensuring that the past not be forgotten. The various ideological plagues of
history are forever threatening to make a comeback. Knowing what has happened
before can help prevent recurrences.
Tom Merrill
November 1, 2018
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND LINKS
The explanatory notes and link below have been provided by THT to let our
readers know more about the Erasmus Programme and THT's efforts in the realm of
human rights.
Here is a link to a page where you can see pictures of the Erasmus scholars and
learn more about their activities:
http://lessonsforpresentlessonsforfuture.blogspot.com/2016/
The Erasmus Programme is a European Union (EU) student exchange programme
established in 1987. The programme is named after the Dutch philosopher and
humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. ERASMUS is a backronym meaning
EuRopean community
Action Scheme for the
Mobility of University
Students. Over three million students have benefited
from Erasmus grants. The poetry reading took place in Thessalonica
(Thessaloniki), the second-largest Greek city and the capital of Macedonia, on
Monday, March 21, 2016. Students from from Greece, Finland, Italy, Lithuania,
Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey participated, with the Greek students and the
families playing host.
The four poems originally published by The HyperTexts include a
translation of Miklos Radnoti's final "postcard" poem and original poems by Yala
Korwin and Michael R. Burch. In recent years poems originally published by THT
have been republished by Amnesty International in its Words That Burn
anthology, by UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), and by various grade schools, high
schools and universities in their Holocaust studies. Poems related to human
rights published by THT have appeared in Poets for Humanity, Genocide
Awareness, Poems for Gaza, Haiti: a History of Hardship, Voices for Africa,
Peace in Darfur, the Save Darfur Coalition website, the Coalition of
Concerned Liberians website, Free Sri Lanka, Tamil Free Thoughts, and
Kashmir News, among many others. Last year a poem published by THT was epigraphed,
with its author's
permission, by a British novelist and each chapter heading was taken from the
poem.
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