Архив за October 2011

October 26. Co-chairman of the Russian Holocaust Center Professor Ilya Altman took part in memorial events in the city of Taganrog in southern Russia that marked 70 years since the annihilation of some 1,500 local Jews. The events were conducted jointly with the Center’s branch in Taganrog. Among the participants, there was a local Righteous among the Nations Igor Polugorodnik. In addition, educational seminar on Holocaust was conducted for local teachers. On the next day, Professor Altman led a seminar on Holocaust in Rostov, capital of Russia’s South.

October 25. Dr. Kiril Feferman representing the Russian Holocaust Center delivered a presentation on the “Hesitations of Kievan Jews in the first three months of the war” at a scholarly conference held on October 24-25 in Kiev. This important scholarly event that brought together leading scholars on the topic was organized by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Research and the French Center for Humanitarian Studies in Ukraine.

October 23. The Museum of Jewish Heritage and Holocaust hosted a memorial session dedicated to the Holocaust in Belarus. The memorial session was attended by high-ranking representatives of Belarus’ Embassy in Russia, President of Holocaust Fund and member of the Russia’s Public Chamber Alla Gerber, and others. The event was moderated by Professor Ilya Altman, co-chairman of the Russian Holocaust Center. 70 years ago, Minsk ghetto, containing more than 100,000 Jewish inmates from Belarus, Poland, Austria, France, Netherlands, and Belgium was entirely destroyed. Minsk ghetto, being one of the largest in Europe, existed about 27 months. The event’s featured presentation was the touching personal story told by a survivor from the Minsk ghetto Boris Srebnik.

October 18. For the third time in its history, representatives of the Russian Holocaust Center participated in a seminar on Holocaust held in Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish Autonomous region situated in Russia’s Far East.

October 5. VI International Conference “Holocaust Lessons and Contemporary Russia: Problems of Memorialization” was held in St. Petersburg from October 2 to October 5. It was attended by more than 80 scholars, community leaders, and teachers from Israel, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, and Ukraine, Moldova, and Lithuania. The conference was organized by Russian Holocaust Center jointly with Yad Vashem, Anne Frank House, House of Wannsee Conference, Hertsen Russian State Pedagogic University (St. Petersburg), Museum of Jewish Heritage and Holocaust (Moscow), and St. Petersburg Jewish Community Center. Alongside the conference, two educational seminars were conducted, one for teachers of St. Petersburg and Leningrad district, the other one for teachers of Jewish schools of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania. During the conference, Anne Frank House presented its exhibition “Anne Frank: History lesson.” The conference was convened to mark 20 years since the opening of a memorial devoted to Holocaust victims shot in October 1941 in the town of Pushkin at St. Petersburg’s vicinity.