UKRAINIAN TEACHERS ARE GOING TO YAD VASHEM

    Yad Vashem is the world-famous international museum as well as the key scientific educational institution on Holocaust History investigation. Tkuma Center is working towards the developing of cooperation with Yad Vashem. On January, 2007 two centers have come to the agreement concerning interchange of materials published in Yad Vashem and Tkuma Center. Henceforth, everyone can get acquainted with the book novelties of both countries in Israel Institute and Ukrainian Center libraries. Ephraim Kei, director of “International Seminars in English and the Jewish World” in Yad Vashem, was so kind to present Tkuma Center some multimedia materials which are of great use and importance for Ukrainian teachers.

According to the arrangement with the head of Russian programs of International School for Holocaust Studies Dr. Irit Abramski Tkuma Center is to send the group of 20 Ukrainian teachers to take part in the Israel seminar. Seminar Participants will have a chance to visit historical sights of biblical history, ancient world, crusader times, etc. But the most relevant seminar advantage is the unique possibility to study in Yad Vashem. The seminar will be conducted on December 23, 2007 – January 4, 2008.

Among the seminar potential participants are teachers who actively participated in Tkuma Center events and elaborated methodological works on studying of Holocaust history and problems of interethnic relations and tolerance issues, prepared winners of Tkuma international Creative Works Competition “Lessons of Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance”.

In Tkuma newspaper we are going to introduce teachers’ pedagogical experience. The full list of Ukrainian teacher who will take part in the seminar is to announce within the framework of the Tkuma International Pedagogical Conference in October. Nowadays each teacher has a chance to try. They should just take a keen interest in problems of establishing tolerance concepts, studying the lessons of history for the sake of future and contribute to studying and teaching of above-mentioned issues. The Yad Vashem seminar surely discovers new perspectives for teachers.