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“Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies under the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine announces

ХV INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE WORKD CONTEST FOR SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, TEACHERS “LESSONS OF WAR AND HLOCAUST – LESSONS OF TOLERANCE”

Representatives of Ukraine and other countries can participate of the contest:

- 8−11 grade students of schools, gymnasiums, lyceums;

- teachers of general educational institutions;

- class leaders and organizers of educational work at general education institutions;

- university students and postgraduates.

Contest time frame:March – September 2018.

Application deadline – June 15 2018.

Deadline for submitting the paper – August 1 2018.

Summing up, awarding Contest winners and laureates – September 25−28 2018.

The following types of works can be accepted:

1. Research works on history, literature, philosophy, sociology, political science and other humanities and social sciences;

2. Search works (interviews, researches on local or family materials, etc.);

3. Creative works (essays, stories, poems, paintings, documentaries, journalistic and documentary films, animated films, multimedia works and other works);

4. Methodological developments.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS FOR CONTEST WORKS

1. Armenian Genocide in 1915 and its historical lessons.
2. Century after the end of the First World War: ways to commemorate.
3. Inter-ethnic policy of the UPR and the reaction of ethnic groups on it.
4. The advantages and disadvantages of Hetman Skoropadsky’s national policy.
5. Babyn Yar – history and historical lessons.
6. “Babyny Yary” of Ukraine – places of mass extermination of Jews.
7. Lessons of World War II – a warning to mankind.
8. Historical significance Victory over Nazism.
9. “No poetry after Auschwitz” (Т. Adorno).
10. The Stockholm International Forum of 2000 to commemorate Holocaust tragedy.
11. Stockholm Declaration and Practice of International Relations.
12. Ukrainians during World War II: Nazi genocide and resistance movement.
13. Byelorussians during World War II: Nazi genocide and resistance movement.
14. Russians during World War II: Nazi genocide and resistance movement.
15. Moldova during World War II: Nazi genocide and resistance movement.
16. Baltic States during World War II: Hitler’s genocide and resistance to the Nazi “new order”.
17. Youth and War: understanding the history lessons (philosophical, ethical, moral, theological approaches).
18. Genocides of the 20c. and their devastating impact on the development of mankind.
19. Nature of genocides against peoples: lessons of the 20 c. and their consequences in the 21 c.
20. “Jewish Question” in the national policy of the Bolsheviks/Ukrainian Governments/Whites in the time of the Ukrainian Revolution.
21. Operation “Vistula” and its influence on the formation of the Ukrainian community in Poland in the second half of the twentieth century.
22. The Holodomor is a tragedy of Ukraine and humanity.
23. "Little-known" famine of the 1920s / 1946-47 years.
24. Extermination of peoples based on ethnic origin: philosophical, psychological and historical aspects.
25. The Holocaust in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Russia.
26. The Nazi policy of extermination of Roma (Gypsies) during the World War II.
27. Ukrainian nationalism and the “Jewish question” during the Holocaust.
28. The genocide of Slavic population of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
29. The Soviet policy of Holocaust suppression.
30. “Nazi extermination machine”: mechanisms of action and genocide counteraction.
31. Ukraine under the influence of dual terror: Nazi Germany and the Stalinist regime
32. Ukrainians – Righteous among the Nations.
33. The role of spiritual leaders of Ukrainian and other nations in critical periods of trials.
34. Inter-ethnic help and social solidarity in times of World War II tragic trials.
35. Modern Ukrainian society and the Holocaust lessons (psychological, social aspects)
36. Inter-religious tolerance as a manifestation of moral and spiritual choice
37. International experience of responsibility for denying the facts of genocide in history.
38. Activities of modern international organizations, government agencies and public organizations in Ukraine to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and prevent genocides in future.
39. The historical lessons of the Holocaust and the current problems of tolerance.
40. Propaganda as a weapon of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes to justify genocide and military aggression: from Goebbels propaganda to modern samples.
41. The problems of studying World War II and the Holocaust history during today’s war against Ukraine.

The Contest provisions can be downloaded at the link: http://tkuma.dp.ua/index.php/ua/obrazovanie/konkurs-rabot