Award-winning work on political asylum
A joint exhibition organized by young people from Germany and Israel won over the judges for the Europeans for Peace Prize.
COMMITTED TO HUMAN RIGHTS. “Political asylum then and now” was certainly not an easy topic for the students of the Rabin High School in Eilat (photograph, below) and the Paul-Spiegel-Berufskolleg Europaschule in Warendorf. Nevertheless, they worked together closely on the subject for a whole year. The Israeli students interviewed survivors of the Holocaust and Sudanese refugees in Israel. The Germans spoke with the family of their school’s name giver, the deceased president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and with Congolese and Tamil asylum-seekers in Germany. Together the students then organized a bilingual touring exhibition on the topic, which eventually convinced the panel of judges for the Europeans for Peace Prize. The Israeli and German school students accepted the award in Berlin in February as one of three project teams.
