“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Educational Seminar held in Skopje
24.09.2015
From 14-16 September, an educational seminar entitled 'Historical approach to the Holocaust and Mass Crimes in the Balkans' was held in Skopje.
The seminar was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Memorial de la Shoah from Paris, and was held in the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia.
The target groups of the seminar were 36 high school history teachers from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. This was the second educational seminar realized within the framework of the Memorandum for Cooperation signed between the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia and Memorial de la Shoah from Paris.
The seminar was opened by high representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ambassadors of France and Germany, and the directors of the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Memorial de la Shoah who underlined the importance of these types of Holocaust educational activities. In view of the current refugee crisis, the IHRA Working Group and Committee Chairs' statement was also read.
The lectures were given by prominent professors from France, Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia and were followed-up by active participation and discussion of the history teachers.