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26. March / Meeting
with the International Tracing Service
On 26th March a meeting and discussion in the German town Bad Arolsen in the famous red cross archives between Ilya Altman and the director of the organisation and the head of research and education programmes Jean-L. Blondel and Dr. Susan Urba took place. Furthermore, talks were held with members of the Archivs, the Public Relations sector and the chief curator of the Museum of the Holocaust and Jewish heritage Natalia Anissina. Both sides exchanged information on possible cooperation between the German and Russian archives and discussed possible investment in joint projects. The Russian visitors were shown a unique archive (including the registration cards for prisoners of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp).
13 March: Ilya Altman solemnly inaugurated the
temporary exhibition “The Holocaust in Europe” With the kind support of the UN Information
Centre in Moscow
the exhibition could be brought to the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue. It was conceived
by one of the world’s most famous Holocaust museums – the Mémorial de la Shoa
Paris. Subdivided into 20 stages, the pictures and explanatory notes in Russian
language offer the visitor an insight in the history of the Holocaust –
starting with the Nuremberg Laws from 1934 and throwing light on little known
aspects of history. Geographically, the exhibition covers all countries where
the genocide against Jews took place. It is thus an invaluable addition to the
Museums permanent exhibition in which the focus lies on the Holocaust on the
Soviet territories.
The inauguration was attended by the Director
of the UN Information Centre, Alexander Gorelik, the Ambassador of the State
Israel, Dorit Golender, and the Vice-president of the Russian-Jewish Congress,
Alexei Karpov. In his speech Alexander Gorelik thanked the project partners for
their supported and expressed the hope, that the museum is now going to be
visited by even more students from Moscow.
All speakers underlined the exhibition’s importance and topicality, especially
in the light of the ongoing crimes against humanity in the world.
In 2010 the museum counted 10 000 visitors from more than 20 countries. The RREHC and the Russian-Jewish Congress constantly organize seminars for teachers, meeting with survivors of the Holocaust as well as seminars on interethnic dialogue in the Synagogue, which - especially in contemporary Russia - is of particular importance.
