International conference on the topic of Holocaust education

International conference on the topic of Holocaust education

VILNIUS CONFERENCE 17 APRIL 2015

Final event of the project “Being  a Jew” organized in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia

Vilnius Municipality Council hall, April 17th

Conference agenda:

9.30-10.00 a.m .– Registration of Participants

Part I.

  • 00. Opening of the Conference. “Being a Jew”
  • 05 “SHALOM!”. Sauletekis secondary school childrens’ choir
  • 15 Welcome speeches of 6 Holocaust survivors honoring the 6 million victims
  • 20. Welcome address of the Mayor of Vilnius Arturas Zuokas
  • 25. Welcome address of the Ambassador of Israel to Lithuania Amir Maimon
  • 30. Welcome address of the Jewish Community Chairwoman Faina Kukliansky
  • 35. Coming to terms with past – Holocaust in Europe. Pavel Tychtl, European Commission
  • 55. Jewish culture and history in Lithuania – 700 years. Šarūnas Liekis, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
  • 15. Lithuanians and the Jews. What has changed and what has not during the last 40 years. Tomas Venclova , writer, USA-Lithuania
  • 35. Myths, stereotypes and quests for truth: Holocaust narratives in Eastern and Western Europe. Saulius Sužiedėlis , Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • 00. Question to the speakers, participant’s discussion
  1. 15. Jewish lunch in the Idea Room of the Vilnius Municipality

 

Part II:

  • 00. The key challenge facing Holocaust education. Video address by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel
  • 15. Politics and Policies of the Holocaust in the Baltics and Beyond. Dovid Katz, Defending History, Lithuania & United Kingdom
  • 35. It has happened here – Museum of the History of the Polish Jews on Holocaust. Piotr Kowalik, Warsaw Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, Poland
  • 00. Holocaust education in Lithuania – experience, gaps and problems. Ingrida Vilkienė, The International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania
  • 20. Questions to the speakers, participants’ discussion
  • 30. Closing remarks. An address to European Union Ministers of Education
  • 45. “ VILNIUS – THE NORTH JERUSALEM”. Vilnius Sauletekis secondary school childrens’ choir

 

Project organizer:

Public institution “Vilko valia”

 

Project partners:

Vilnius City municipality

More Music (Košice, Slovakia)

IRSE (Gdynia, Poland)

Fundacja Gaudete (Katowice, Poland)

Municipality Alba Iullia (Romania)

Foundation of former ghetto prisoners

Volunteer centre