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On April 11, the world celebrated a memorable date - the International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps. It was established in memory of the uprising of prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which took place on April 11, 1945. During the years of the camp's existence (from 1937 to 1945), about 250 thousand people became its prisoners - Jews, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, political prisoners. Of these, more than 50 thousand died.
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What were interethnic and interreligious relations in history? How do they affect the modern world? Is it possible to discuss complex issues of history without prejudice? These are the topics discussed during the next “historical webinar” organized by “Tkuma” Institute and “Orion” Publishing House on March 19.
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On March 12, a “historical webinar” was held by “Tkuma” Institute and “Orion” Publishing House on the topic: “Ukrainian nobility; right and honor; what history can teach young people.” The guest speaker was Prof. Nataliya Starchenko, a research associate at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies and the Institute of Ukrainian History of the NAS of Ukraine, co-author and scientific editor of history textbooks for grade 8 at the Orion UOC. The online meeting was moderated by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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The 24th meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Commission on Improving the Content of School History and Geography Textbooks was held in Uzhhorod on January 27-30. This year, the opening of the intergovernmental commission, which has been operating since 1995, was dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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On January 21-22, the XVI All-Ukrainian Methodological Seminar for Educators “New Ukrainian School: Teaching/Knowledge about the Holodomor and Other Genocides” was held in Kyiv, organized by the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for Holodomor Studies (HREC in Ukraine). This is the first in a series of seminars in 2025 under the general theme “How to Tell History to Ukrainian Children,” during which leading scientists, methodologists, authors of programs and textbooks will discuss the process of creating the content of future educational materials on the history of Ukraine and the world: what is the most important thing that should be presented in textbooks, who are the heroes and who are the criminals, how to talk about the tragic phenomena of wars and genocides without traumatizing the child and helping him become stronger, how to fit Ukrainian history into European and world history, but at the same time not to lose, but to express his own. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event.