name of the project/initiative: On the tracks of history beginn: 1.Januar.1981 end: 24.Mai.2015 position of the project/initiative : running location of the project/initiative (city and the country): Duisburg, Germany Institution responsible: Ev. Familienbildungswerk adress: Hinter der Kirche 34 47058 Duisburg Germany fon: 00 49 203 305 280 fax: 00 49 203 305 28 48 email: k.walter@fbw-du.org website: www.fbw-duisburg.de/Fachb 7 contact person: Kurt Walter cooperation with other institutions: schools Summary/ Abstract: history and memory social learning Background (reason, initiative?): The re-discovering of a Nazi concentration camp started a brought dialogue between generations in one quarter of our town which was continued in others on that topic objectives: To save the memories of eyewitnesses and transmit them for the future target groups: families, children, youngsters, adults, seniors setting (family. open space, school, home, others): open space, school for families, schools methods of intergenerational learning/ dialogue: A working group of youngsters and seniors create together memorial tablets, documentary brochures, memorial ceremonies on the 8th of may and the 9th of november difficulties and ways of transition:   Does the project relate trainings of persons involved? (Discription): Youngsters are trained to "memory workers" in order to present the results of the working group and to transmit memory successful experiences: Youngsters and seniors work together and present their work to others: stumbling stones historical path:liberation of Paris in 1944 extension of the project/ initiative: crossing borders funding: The manager of the working group is employed by the Ev. Familienbildungswerk"school for families" publications: "Tell me about the past, grandma!" "Images of women" "Yes, there was a concentration camp in Meiderich" "The ghetto nearby" "My uncle in Paris" "Stumbling stones in Duisburg" "The miracle of Bern" "Looking for the sources of the Nile"