Not Again: Young People Meet the Last Survivors of the Camps
The Sint-Aloysiuscollege of Menen (SAM) is an active School Without Racism. When the idea came up to make a book with the students about the last survivors of the concentration camps, there was immediate interest.
When the SAM group visited the secretariat of School Without Racism in Brussels, they witnessed a skirmish at the Central Station. A boy was stabbed over an MP3 player. When the SAM book group met for the first time three weeks later, the shocking news came in of the racist massacre in Antwerp: a two-year-old toddler, her Malian babysitter and a Turkish woman had been shot by an 18-year-old boy.
The world of today forced itself upon the book. The book had to be much more than a collection of camp stories. It would be the meeting of two generations of teenagers: those of 1940 and those of today. The result is a young Niet Opnieuw that opposes peace, friendship and solidarity to fascism and racism.
Richly illustrated with photos and drawings