On 11-14 December 2010, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) jointly with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS), with the participation of the Moldova Jewish Congress, the Jewish Community of Moldova, and the Center of Training and Professional Development (CTPD) will hold an international seminar on the EAJC “Tolerance – Lessons of the Holocaust” program for the teachers involved with teaching tolerance and the Holocaust in middle schools of Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. The objective of the seminar is to allow a sharing of methodological and educational experiences between teachers in the area of teaching the history of the Holocaust.

A combination of workshops, lectures, and round tables is intended for the 4 days of the seminar. Most of the focus of the seminar is on practical tasks and workshops along with presentations by the seminar participants of their own study aids and methodologies on the topic of teaching the Holocaust.

 

Practical tasks and workshops will be devoted to the following topics: “Identity issues”, “Interethnic stereotypes. How to resist them?”, “Different types and forms of discrimination and phobias in modern-day societies: opposition and teaching experience”, “Visual aids and eyewitness accounts in teaching the history of the Holocaust and issues of interethnic tolerance”, “Topic of the history of the Holocaust in teaching human rights ”, etc.

 

The following speakers will deliver their lectures before the seminar attendees: Sergey Nazariya, Cand. Sc. (History), Ph.D. in Political Science, Moldova (“The history of the Holocaust as a means of forming tolerance in Moldova”); Petr Shornikov, Cand. Sc. (History), Moldova (“On the Romanian occupation policy in Bessarabia during World War II”); Anatoly Podolsky, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS), Ph.D. in History (“The history of the Holocaust as a means of forming tolerance: European experience”); Mikhail Tyagly, Research Associate of UCHS (“Introduction to comparative approaches in study of genocides. Typology and peculiarity of genocides in the history of the 20th century”); Anna Lenchovskaya, regional repr esentative of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education in Ukraine (“Psychological aspects of teaching the Holocaust”).

 

Discussions at the round table “Different: always alien? Is it worthwhile teaching anybody tolerance? How people from other cultures see us…”will be an important aspect of the workshop for the teachers giving lessons on the Holocaust.