Observance of the International Holocaust Commemoration Day in Ukraine

  27 January 2010. Kyiv, Ukraine -  Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies supported by the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine held the annual round-table meeting “Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Commemoration: Educational Perspective”, devoted to the International Holocaust Commemoration Day marked annually according to the UN Resolution # 60/7. This day in 1945 the Soviet army liberated the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, located on Polish territories, where about one million Jews from all over Europe had been murdered.

Among the participants of the commemoration meeting were teachers, students, pupils, scholars and journalists ( 70 participants from 12 regions of the Ukraine). It needs to be specially noted that the opening ceremony was attended by the Ambassadors or representatives of the Embassies of Israel, the USA, Germany, France, the UN Office in Ukraine, Ukrainian Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs.

The broad range of topics discussed included issues and perspectives of Holocaust education and research in modern Ukraine, historical memory about the Holocaust, place of the Holocaust and other tragedies of the XX century in educational process and state curricula.

The program of the event is available at http://www.holocaust.kiev.ua/

Information is provided by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies .