SEMINAR-SCHOOL “HOLOCAUST HISTORY: STUDY, TEACHING, MEMORY”
From August 13 to 17, 2024, the annual scientific and educational seminar-school “Holocaust History: Study, Teaching, Memory” was held in Kyiv, organized by the Ukrainian Center for the Study of the History of the Holocaust in cooperation with the Yad Vashem Memorial (Jerusalem). The participants of the seminar-school were teachers of history and social disciplines of educational institutions from 13 regions of the country.
Lectures were given at the school-seminar by Anatoliy Podolskiy, a leading researcher of the Department of Ethnopolitics of our Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Head of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yuriy Nikolaiets.
Anatoliy Podolskiy is speaking
Anatoliy Podolskiy in his lesson on the topic “The relevance of learning about the history of the Holocaust during the Russian-Ukrainian war” drew attention to the fact that historians and educators in Ukraine today, in order to understand the behavior and crimes of the modern Russian political regime, during the Russian aggression against Ukraine should compare the crimes of dictatorial regimes and totalitarian ideologies of the last century, in particular Stalin’s communism and Hitler’s National Socialism. Comparative studies will help to understand the nature of the aggressor country, which is now opposing us and aims to destroy our statehood, Ukrainian cultural and political identity. It is obvious that the hatred of the sovereignty of Ukraine, the Ukrainophobia of Putin’s criminal regime have their origins in totalitarian ideologies of centuries ago.
Yuriy Nikolaiets is speaking
Yuriy Nikolaiets in his lectures “Crimes of Nazism, Communism and Rashism in Modern Scientific and Journalistic Discourse” emphasized that the crimes of fascists and communists are rooted in the idea of the former greatness of the state and the prospects for realizing its geopolitical interests, and the asymmetric dissemination of information contributes to the formation of ideas about crimes, their scope and consequences and is a prerequisite for the development of criminal behavior practices of the future. The appearance of modern rashism, as a type of fascist ideology, is connected with the large-scale economic lag of the Russian Federation from the leading countries of the world and the desire of its leaders to ensure the realization of certain economic interests through the spread of the “Russian peace”, including through the conduct of hostilities.
During five days, participants had the opportunity to take part in lectures, discussions, trainings, discuss various aspects of the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine and Europe, the politics of totalitarian regimes, Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the interwar period and during the Holocaust, features of the ideology of Nazi anti-Semitism, interdisciplinary approaches to the history of the Holocaust, other genocides of the Second World War and modern times, issues of historical memory, the influence of Russia’s war against Ukraine on the research and memory of the Holocaust, other relevant topics.
Participants of the school seminar