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Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust
The first session of the fifth post-graduate course co-organized by the Museum and the Pedagogical Academy in Cracow was held on Friday, January 25. After the opening ceremonies, the participants met with Madame Borras, a former Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoner from France.
Twenty-five people, most of them teachers, will enhance their professional qualifications on the course this year. Most of them come from the vicinity of Oświęcim, although some hail from Zgierz, Poznań, Warsaw, or Żywiec, Poland.
Museum Education Center director Andrzej Kacorzyk said that, aside from broadening teachers' knowledge, they also serve as an important element in their professional advancement.
During the six sessions, the teachers will learn about the Nazi movement, the Nazi concentration camps, the fate of the Roma during wartime, and the postwar history of the Jewish people.
The course will end in September 2003 with the awarding of diplomas, a meeting at the Pedagogical Academy in Cracow, and a visit to the Jewish Culture Center.
Program of studies (in laphabetical order by lecturer):
- The Holocaust and the concentration camps in literature and art: Prof. Stanisław Burkot
- Poles and Jews during the Second World War and in the postwar period: Prof. Jacek Chrobaczyński
- The persecution and extermination of the Jewish people under Nazi rule: Prof. Wacław Długoborski
- The wartime fate of the Roma: Prof. Wacław Długoborski
- The Holocaust and the concentration camps in literature and art: Dr. Bogusław Gryszkiewicz
- The history and culture of the Jewish people: Dr. Leszek Hońdo
- The Nazi movement and rule in Germany and occupied Europe: Dr. Ryszard Kaczmarek
- The Holocaust and concentration camps in film: Prof. Tadeusz Miczka
- Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust in school curricula: Dr. Janina Mazur/Dr. Piotr Trojański
- After Auschwitz and the Holocaust: Overcoming the past and prejudices in interreligious dialogue: Prof. Stanisław Obirek S.J.
- Totalitarianism, Nazism, and Racism: Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
- Nazi concentration camps with particular reference to Auschwitz: Dr. Franciszek Piper
- The postwar fate of the Jewish people: The founding of the state of Israel, its internal problems, and its place in international politics: Dr. Michał Sobelman
