Projects for School and University Students

On January 26, 2017 Israeli Cultural Center in Dnipro hosted session conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. More them 40 young people – participants of International Student Organization “Hillel” and Israeli Cultural Center – joined the session.

The topic of the session was “Psychological Control of People – From the Nazi Concentration Camps to Modern Totalitarian Communities”. Participants talked about the features of human behavior during war, participation in resistance actions against the enemy. Special attention was given to prominent figures of psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, who had has long been a prisoner of the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was the author of articles and books on the psychological aspects of human existence and survival in Nazi concentration camps.

Lively discussion and active participation in discussions showed considerable interest of young people to the subject.