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Polish Educators in Israel. Yad Vashem Hosts Alumni of Auschwitz Museum Potsgraduate Course
Twenty-five Polish educators—Museum guides, teachers, and staff from martyrdom museums—are taking part from September 18 to October 2 in a seminar, which has become a tradition, at the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Israel.
This year, for the first time, there will be two seminars as part of the broadening cooperation between Yad Vashem and the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, which was recently founded at the Museum. Most of the participants in both seminars are alumni of the postgraduate course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust that has been offered for several years by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. For participants in the present seminar, this is their second visit to Israel and the subject is a further development of issues from their first stay at Yad Vashem. Participants in a November seminar will be visiting Israel for the first time.
The Polish ambassador in Israel, Jerzy Wojciech Piekarski, and Motti Shalem of the Yad Vashem School for Holocuast Research, greeted the seminar participants.
The seminar program covers such subjects as new directions in Holocaust research, anti-Semitism in Poland, the Holocaust in Western Europe, Polish documents in the Yad Vashem archives, and the image of Poland and Poles in the eyes of young Israelis.
Participants are also meeting survivors and visiting a secondary school in Israel. Events not connected with the specialist themes include visits to the most interesting parts of Israel and lessons in Israeli folk dancing.
