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"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.
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On October 7, the 14th All-Ukrainian methodological seminar for educators “New Ukrainian school: learning / knowledge about the Holodomor and other genocides. School historical education during the Russian-Ukrainian war” was held on the basis of the Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education organized by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine and HREC in Ukraine. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event as a speaker.
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On October 3, the deputy director of “Tkuma” Institute, Dr. Yehor Vradii, and the director of the Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, met with students and teachers of the Lviv Polygraphic College of the Ukrainian Academy of Typography. The class was devoted to the tragedy of Babyny Yar, the Holocaust, and the modern genocide of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people. During the class, attention was also paid to the resistance to evil in the past and in our days – in particular, to the Ukrainian saviors of the Jews, the Righteous Among the Nations, the figure of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. Unfortunately, the slogan “Never again” is completely devalued today, under the conditions of Russian aggression and the repetition of the policy of “appeasement of the aggressor” by certain political forces of the West.
Read more: Lessons on the Babyn Yar history for students of the Lviv Polygraphic College
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On September 27-28, the XXI I International Contest of creative works for schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and teachers “Lessons of war and Holocaust – lessons of tolerance”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies was held online. The opening began with a moment of silence and commemoration of those who died because of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. And since the final of the Contest was held on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, the symbolic beginning of the event was a lecture-conversation by Dr. Igor Shchupak “Babyn Yar as a symbol of the Holocaust, a genocide that was not to be repeated, and the unlearned lessons of history”, during which the wars and genocides of the past were talked about through the prism of the tragedy of the present.
This year, the participants of the Finale presented a wide range of forms of performance of the Contest works: these are scientific studies on history and literature, and search works created on local history and family materials, drawings and multimedia works, methodical development of educational classes. The selected works will be published in the publications of “Tkuma” Institute.
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At the end of September, Ukraine remembers one of the most terrible tragedies of its own history of the 20th century – the beginning of executions in Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941. The first victims of Nazi terror were Kyiv Jews. The total extermination of the Jews was the main goal of the planned and large-scale genocide, which the authorities of Nazi Germany purposefully prepared and implemented from the very beginning of the German-Soviet war. Babyn Yar is one of the most famous symbols of the Holocaust outside of Ukraine. At the same time, this place is part of the memory of the crimes of destruction of other groups of “enemies of the New Order”: the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma, clergy.
For the first time during the Nazi rule in Ukraine, such a large number of people – almost 34 thousand people – were killed in one place in just two days. In the next two years of occupation, Babyn Yar turned into a place of death for almost 100,000 people.
As part of events dedicated to commemorating the victims of Nazi terror, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies together with the Museum of Genocide “Territory of Memory” (Odesa) held a one-day seminar for more than 70 history teachers and teachers of extracurricular education on September 26, Odesa.
Read more: Seminar for Odesa history teachers dedicated to the Day of Remembrance Babyn Yar victims
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This year, the camp for the Jewish youth of Ukraine became a unique event dedicated to the study of oneself and one's Jewishness. After the grand opening, during which participants were welcomed by Hillel CASE Regional Director Osik Axelrud, the girls and boys immersed themselves in an intense program that began with a two-day training session from the Israel Trauma Coalition, during which they learned important tools for self-help and supporting others in times of crisis.