“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

ALL-UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR OF “TKUMA” INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF THE GERMAN-UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“MARATHONS ARE OF LIVING” FOR YOUTH ON THE HOLOCAUST HISTORY

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE WORKS CONTEST FOR TEACHERS, SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, POSTGRADUATES "LESSONS OF WAR AND HOLOCAUST

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

INTERNATIONAL INTERRELIGIOUS YOUTH SEMINAR "THE ARK"

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR FOR UKRAINIAN TEACHERS IN YAD VASHEM (JERUSALEM, ISRAEL)

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

“TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

PRESENTATION OF “TKUMA” INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS  IN COOPERATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE

"Tkuma" Institute has experience in organization and conduction of educational events for school and university students, school teachers. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional institutes of advanced teacher training, "Tkuma" Institute organized special system of seminars for improvement of teachers' skills.

"Tkuma" Institute has unique experience in creating textbooks. School History textbooks created by "Tkuma" Institute won All-Ukrainian State Contests and were released in hundreds of thousands of copies.

"Tkuma" Institute effectively cooperates with regional office of Junior Academy of Sciences. On the base of "Tkuma" Institute winter and summer sessions of JAS are conducted. During this events school students have an opportunity to work with the Holocaust museum holdings, consult the Institute and Museum research associates and meet famous Ukrainian and foreign scholars.

During February 5-11, 2017 International seminar on the Holocaust for Ukrainian educators was conducted on the base of Yad Vashem International School in Jerusalem. The group, which included heads of departments of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, university professors, members of scientific institutions, methodologists and teachers had the opportunity to get acquainted with the methods of work of one of the world’s leading centers for the Holocaust research and teaching.

On February 9, 2017 Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum,held interactive session for young people – participants of JDC seminar. The topic of the session was “Crowd Psychology, Leadership and Resistance to the Holocaust”.

Participants discussed issues related to the peculiarities of human behavior during the Holocaust, including – in Nazi concentration camps. Dr. Igor Shchupak said that during the lesson it was important to show the relationship between the time and events, the role of individual and leader. The subject aroused the interest of young people who took part in the discussion.

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On February 8–9, 2017 Kyiv hosted the 2nd all-Ukrainian methodological seminar for educators “New Ukrainian School: Knowledge about the Holodomor and other Genocides”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Holodomor Research and Education Centre in Ukraine and Holodomor Research and Education Consortium. Valentyn Rybalka, research associate of “Tkuma” Institute, was invited to participate in the seminar..

On February 9, 2017 Beit Chana” International Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute hosted interactive session for future teachers conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum. During the session “Lessons of the Holocaust, Lessons of History and Problems of Unlearnt Lessons” the main attention was paid to the psychology of people during World War II and the Holocaust, in particular, when getting into the Nazi concentration and death camps. Participants talked about the features of human behavior, participation in the resistance - both armed and spiritual. How did prisoners of concentration camps act? Could the people, who were to be shot, resist the Nazi policy of humiliation and extermination? These and other issues were under active discussion.

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.

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On February 4, 2017 the Faculty of History of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University hosted the final event of the 2nd (regional) stage of all-Ukrainian contest-defense of research works by members of Dnipro department of Junior Academy of Sciences.