Ours is a Story of Reconcilation
Max Schindler, with his wife, Rose and family, including, Moriah, Ben, Jeff, and Steven
(and Nicole Nocon and her children) signing the Golden Book at Cottbus City Hall, 2015.
Founded on the idea that the future of our global community rests in the hands of youth, generationE was created to inspire today’s generation of schoolchildren to stand up for one another and confront hate of all kinds. Created by an unexpected bond between descendants of Holocaust survivors and Nazi Party members, generationE provides teachers easy access to a range of Holocaust education programs designed to make history real and bring memories of victims and survivors to life. By connecting with stories relevant to their communities, students are transported in time and place and are better equipped to translate difficult history into tangible and emotional association using vivid experiences of the time. generationE was launched following an outpouring of interest form Germany’s first Butterfly Project initiative at the Bewegte Grundschule in Cottbus in January 2019, an initiative that Nicole and Steven agreed to pilot several years after they first met in 2011. They brought the Butterfly Project to Bewegte Grundschule to remember and honor Steven’s father Max and his family, heretofore Cottbus residents expelled on October 28, 1938 duringPolanAktion (a declaration to remove Jewish Poles living in Germany). The Schindlers weresubsequently forced into slave labor and concentration camps in 1942. Max‘s parents and sister Cäcilie were killed. Max and his brother Alfred survived and were liberated in Theresienstadt. There are millions of Holocaust victims, like Max’s family, whose memories and voices have all but been forgotten. For those of us connected to the past by family or faith or those inspired by the universality of our human experience, we have a responsibility to activate today’s student generation to reject hate, antisemitism, white supremacy and racist propaganda. generatione provides the tools to inspire students to repair our world – Tikkun Olam.
Meet our Founders
We are so blessed to have benefited form the involvement of journalists, teachers, curriculum and genocide education experts, and their organizations, from the very beginning.
