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Auschwitz in the Collective Awareness. A seminar in Oświęcim for Israeli educators

In July, the Auschwitz Museum Education Center began its now-traditional two-week seminar on “Auschwitz in the Collective Awareness in Poland and Abroad.” Participants include staff from Holocaust remembrance institutions in Israel: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Ghetto Fighters Museum from the kibbutz of the same name, and Massuah (The Lighthouse) from Tel Itzhak kibbutz.

The seventeen participants will hear lectures from Auschwitz Museum historians and invited guest lecturers on such subjects as “Judaism and Christianity,” “The Occupations of Poland—German and Soviet,” “Jews in Contemporary Poland,” “The Social and Political Situation in Poland after 1989,” “Poles in Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” and “The Many-Leveled Symbolism of Auschwitz.”

The lectures will be accompanied by workshops on such subjects as preservation in the Museum, the analysis of visitor statistics, the role of the guides at the Museum, and art in the camp.

Additionally, seminar participants will be able to learn about Polish history and culture through tourist excursions. Our guests from Israel will see the Pieniny mountains, the Wieliczka Salt Mine, and the castle in the Duchy of Pszczyna (Pless).