Projects for School and University Students

Educational Sessions for School and University Students of Mykolaiv Region

On March 23–24, 2017 Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of “Tkuma” Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, conducted educational interactive sessions for school and university students of Mykolaiv region.

Mykolaiv State University hosted lecture dedicated to World War II and Holocaust and modern memory of these period. Not only students – future historians and pedagogues – but also educators took part in the event. Participants were discussion the question of historical myths and their influence on modernity.

The next day at Mykolaiv secondary school №19 Dr. Igor Shchupak conducted the lesson for 11^th grade students: “Why do Europeans Learn about the Holocaust?”. Participants discussed the necessity of Holocaust education at schools and preservation of the memory about those events, as 6 million Jews from various European countries, 1.5 million of whom lived in Ukraine, became the victims of Nazi extermination policy. Separate attention was paid to the feat of Righteous among the Nations – people who, despite the risk of being arrested or killed, tried to save Jews from death.

On the same day the lesson of World History for 9^th grade students was conducted. The curriculum provides for study of the US history during 1877-1900, so the lecturer focused on the stages of development of industrial America in the late nineteenth century. Using new textbook by Dr. Shchupak, students learned new terms and concepts such as “corporation”, “syndicate”, “industrial revolution”, “segregation” and others. The lecturer also used interactive teaching methods that raised great interest of students.