MEETING OF THE JURY OF IV INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

“Lessons of Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance” – 2007 (²stage)

On June 19^th, 2007 the meeting of the Jury of IV International Contest “Lessons of Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance” – 2007 (² stage) has been held in Lviv. During the meeting progress of the Contest has been presented both  to the members of the Jury and to the guests – Ukrainian and foreign scholars who arrived to participate in the International Scholary Conference, conducted by Tkuma All-Ukrainian center for Holocaust Studies.

The following members of the Jury and guests have attended the meeting: Dr. Aharon Weiss, Dr. Jakub Petelewicz, Dr. Igor Shchupak, Dr. Oleksandr Movchan, Svitlana Gerus, members of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Academic Board: Prof. Rudolf Myrskyy, Prof. Viktor Pervak, Dr. Faina Vynokurova, Dr. Maksym Gon and others. Svitlana Gerus, Tkuma Educational Programs’ Coordinator, has introduced to the Jury’s attention the analysis of contest progress and acquainted the meeting participants with the systematized list of contest participants in which the subject of the participants’ creative work, participants’ age, occupation, location of education or teaching activity were indicated. The Contest in 2007 has widely spread all over Ukraine as well as abroad thanks to the auspices of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (see the letter of the Ministry on the web-site …). The “geography” of the Contest on June 15^th, 2007 is as follows:

Contest organizers have also received applications and works from the Czech Republic, Hungary, USA, Russia, Byelorussia, Israel, etc.

In accordance with applications and topics of received Contest works the following conclusion is made up.

Most of creative works were dedicated to Holocaust subject, which is considered from different points and is stated in different ways. The Contest participants have paid great attention to research and comprehension of Ukrainian people tragic pages during Holodomor in 1932-1933. Approximately 20 % of participants devoted their projects to comparative analysis of XX century tragedies Holodomor and Holocaust.

According to the number of participants the following table has been  worked out and submitted to the participants’ meeting:

Thus, 63 % of applied works have been presented to Jury consideration.

The Jury members have acquainted with projects on various topics and with the different types of creativity. Different methodological approaches to projects exposing have been demonstrated. The following visual creative works and multimedia projects have attracted keen attention: works of students of Kyiv State Academy of Culture and Art Managerial Specialists: “Model of Memorial to Perished Jews Near 5^th Mine” by Pidgorna Galyna and multimedia project “Vadym Sydur” by Maslovskyy Andrij; multimedia project “The Life Continues” by Blesmudt Yuliya, 10^th form student of Dnipropetrovsk lyceum # 100; visual e-book “Holocaust History Through the Children’s view: Remembrance and Prevention” by Boris Artemov, History teacher of Zaporizhzhia Ort-Alef Gymnasium; presentations about Holodomor History by Valentyna Masna, Deputy Director on educational work of Dashkovetskyy Teaching and Educational Complex, young artists’ works and others. This time you can see series of works by Orest Diduh, student of Tiachiv Lyceum of Vocational Education (Zakarpattia Region).

As an interesting exemplary material to presentation of the Contest “Lessons of Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance”

Short film, created by Olga Onyshko, post-graduate student of American University, participant of Tkuma Center seminar “The Ark – 2006”, has become an interesting visual addition to the Contest “Lessons of Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance” presentation and has been applied to participation in the Contest 2007. The film combines the narrative about the Weiss family fate during Holocaust and modern youth empathy concerning Holocaust.

During the considering of the Contest 2007 current results the meeting participants have come to the conclusion that they can pick out works for reviewing after detailed acquaintance with the list of works. O. Movchan, representative of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, member of the Contest Jury, has noticed that specialists from Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine are interested in work on Holodomor and Holocaust comparative analysis, on Holodomor and Holocaust regional aspects.

During the meeting members of the Jury and interested meeting participants have arranged about the procedure of works reviewing because project seriousness need works to be thoroughly looked through by all member of the Contest Jury.

The guests of the open meeting of Contest Jury and Tkuma All-Ukrainian Academic Board offered to review the Contest participants’ works.

The ways of Contest winners honouring have been considered. Igor Shchupak, Tkuma Center Director, has reminded about the special teachers’ awarding, winners of the Contest, - participation in Holocaust History seminar which is to be held in well-known memorial complex Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

One more interesting idea has been offered – to award winners by special nominal prizes from members of Tkuma Academic Board and the Contest Jury.

Svitlana Gerus,

Tkuma Center Educational Programs’ Coordinator