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During October 15-18, the annual European seminar for educators was held in Paris, organized by Yahad-In Unum in cooperation with the EVZ Foundation and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute of Holocaust Studies with the assistance and financial support of the Conference on Material Claims of Jews to Germany (Claims Conference). The participants were teachers and trainers from Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine.
For over 20 years, the organization Yahad-In Unum has been researching and documenting sites of mass shootings of Jews and Roma in Eastern Europe. Its work encompasses collecting eyewitness testimonies, identifying execution sites, and developing educational initiatives aimed at countering Holocaust denial, antisemitism, and other manifestations of hatred.
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On August 17–20, 2026, an international seminar for teachers and lecturers from Ukraine “Auschwitz – History and Symbolism” was held in Poland, organized by the International Auschwitz and Holocaust Education Center (IACEC) of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum together with “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies with the assistance and financial support of the Conference on Material Claims of Jews to Germany (Claims Conference). Ukrainian educators from different regions of Ukraine took part in the seminar.
The seminar program combined lectures, practical classes, presentations of educational programs, professional discussions and direct work with memorial sites. Participants visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the former Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps, got acquainted with the activities of the International Auschwitz and Holocaust Education Center, visited the museum's restoration laboratory and took part in the presentation of the museum collection “The Function and Meaning of Art in Auschwitz”.
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On May 22, the Scientific Lyceum of International Relations of the University of Customs and Finance in Dnipro hosted the event “Educational Dialogues” – a platform for professional communication, exchange of experience and inspiration for teachers. The meeting was attended by Global Teacher Prize Ukraine finalists, teachers, heads of educational institutions and educational experts.
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On May 14, a Marathon of Living for the Day of Remembrance of Ukrainians Who Rescued Jews During World War II was held, organized by “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies with the assistance and financial support of the Conference on Material Claims of Jews to Germany (Claims Conference). The event was joined by: Ratniv Lyceum No. 1 named after the Hero of Ukraine Eduard Kamardin of the Volyn region, Lyceum “Perspektyva” of the Domaniv Village Council of the Mykolaiv region, Drachynek Secondary School of the 1st-3rd grades of the Chernivtsi region, Vinnytsia Lyceum No. 18, Zhytomyr Lyceum No. 21, Odessa Lyceum No. 7, Uman Lyceum No. 2.
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On May 14, Ukraine commemorated the Day of Ukrainians who rescued Jews during World War II. The phenomenon of rescue during the Holocaust is one of the important aspects of the history of survival during the Nazi genocide. By studying the actions of the Rescuers and Righteous Among the Nations of the world, we simultaneously have the opportunity to look at a number of different issues: the context of pre-war relations between the Rescuers and victims of Nazi persecution, the peculiarities of the influence of specific circumstances of the occupation regime in various zones of the territories where the so-called “New Order” was established, on the dynamics of mass murder and, accordingly, survival strategies, etc.