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Educators from Ukraine visited the Auschwitz Memorial
A group of 20 history teachers from secondary schools and university lecturers from 10 regions of the Ukraine visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site. August 14-20, the teachers took part in an educational seminar entitled, “The history of the Holocaust in the Ukraine and Poland”.
The seminar began in Lviv, where the participants embarked on a study tour: visiting, among others, the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Memorial Sites. The main focus of the seminar was the history and culture of Polish and Ukrainian Jewish community during the Second World War.
A part of the seminar was a visit to the Auschwitz Memorial, during which participants were guided around the site of the former camp and took part in a meeting at the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust that dealt with the importance of educational visits to the Auschwitz Memorial Site.
The seminar was a joint venture of the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust as well as the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Museums, with the support of the American Jewish Committee and Claims Conference.
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies — UCHS – founded 2002 is a non-governmental organization. It was created by the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The main focus of the Center is research on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, the impact of Nazism, research on other crimes of genocide, and education about the Holocaust.
