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Completion of this year’s postgraduate course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Twenty graduates of the year-long course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust received their diplomas on Saturday. The classes are held at the Museum under the supervision of the Cracow Pedagogical Academy. The lecturers come from the Museum staff and the Jagiellonian, Warsaw, and Silesian universities. There are 40 students from Poznań, Warsaw, and Cracow enrolled in the course this year.
Twenty-three other people completed a course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, organized by the Museum Education Center with the cooperation of universities in Cracow, Silesia, and Warsaw. This three-semester professional enrichment course, intended for teachers but also open to others, consists of 350 hours of lectures, all conducted at the Museum in Oświęcim with the exception of a one-day excursion to Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Cracow.
The current course, which began last October, will look for the first time at the Soviet Gulag camps, in addition to Holocaust themes in literature and film—both documentaries and features. An excursion to the Tarnów Ethnological Museum, devoted to the Roma minority, is also planned. Another new theme is the persecution of Poles and other ethnic groups during the Second World War. The 40 participants come from Poznań, Warsaw, and Cracow.
