What is the connection of migration and travel, with religious tolerance? The clippings in this section allow for some answers on pressing questions such as:

- If you think about migration: do you know people who migrated or were forced to do so?

- Do you see things all people who migrate, in general, have in common?

- Do you see things all people who are forced to leave their homeland, in particular, have in common?

- What could be the connection between traveling in different countries and practicing tolerance of different religions? What could be the connection between the exchange of goods via trade and the exchange of ideas?

- In the past, Jews were often attributed a specific status. Why did the rulers do that, in your opinion?

- How do you think the experience of migrants today compares with that in the past?

People travel a lot today for pleasure, as tourists. However by no means all travel is voluntary, and people have often had to travel to save their lives. Refugees can often have a very active religious life and have been forced to leave because of their different views. Jews are one example throughout European history. However, when it comes to receiving refugees, world religions are in agreement with the humanists – the suffering person must be helped. See clipping ‘Christian values’: Manuel Sarrazin (2015).

Migration is often associated with impossible living conditions in the homeland, possibly with persecution. Not much has changed in history in this regard, even if we look at the recent past. We should not forget what “being a refugee means: hardship, distress, hopelessness, homelessness – regardless of centuries or continents” as it is said in the clipping ’Refugees in 1945 and 2015: Leipzig banner ’.

Jews played an important role in the history of the European economy. In the Middle Ages, when Christianity was the dominant religion, Jews had to be protected by the rulers to act freely and remain faithful to their beliefs — to establish religious tolerance for them. One example is the Statute of Kalish, a charter issued by a Duke Bolesław the Pious in 1264 in Poland. See clipping ’POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews: Statute of Kalish – the mechanisms of medieval settlements of Jews in the Polish lands’.

When you make a Docutube, you can interview members of religious communities or people you know to have no religious connection, in order to understand their own experience of migration

or to explore their interactions with religious migrants. You can compare their experiences with those from the past, as expressed in the clippings.