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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 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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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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On August 6-9, the regular summer studies for teachers of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies took place. Almost ten years ago, the head of educational programs of the "Tkuma" Institute, Iryna Piskaryova, and the director of the Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, conceived and implemented the idea of a unique project of an informal meeting of active teachers, lecturers, and scientists. Meetings not limited to the framework of traditional seminars, academic and practical conferences, but filled with communication and live and direct exchange of ideas, discussion of experience and planning of joint projects in the future. In the summer of 2016, the first Summer Studios took place in Lutsk and, as it turned out, became one of the most successful projects for the formation of an informal network of like-minded teachers.
Read more: “Summer studies” for teachers of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies
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On March 4, at the Scientific Lyceum of International Relations of the University of Customs and Finance (Dnipro), an educational lesson “Modern war through the prism of history: can a historian predict the future?” was held. Dr. Igor Shchupak conducted an interactive lesson for high school students.
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On February 20, a “historical webinar” of “Tkuma” Institute and the “Orion” Publishing House was held on the topic “Historical distortions in racist propaganda - and the history of medieval Ukraine in the new history textbook for the 7th grade.”
The speakers of the educational online event were the historian, blogger of the YouTube channel “VOX VERITATIS”, winner of the Kyiv regional stage and graduate of the All-Ukrainian competition “Teacher of the Year-1998” in the nomination “History”, author of the textbook for the 7th grade “History of Ukraine” and other textbooks and history textbooks Vitaly Dribnytsia (Bila Tserkva) and Dr. Igor Shchupak.