January 29th-31st 2009. The
Conference under this topic was organized in St. Petersburg by the
Russian Research and Educational “Holocast” Center as by the
State-Universitiy “Herzen” in St. Petersburg.On the conference, Russian students
from Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as Members of the Russian
Research and Educational “Holocaust” Center had speeches about the
Holocaust and about the blockade of Leningrad.
After the conference the students
visited the head of the Organization for Ghetto-Survivors in St.
Petersburg, Pavel Rubinchik and the exhibition-room of the
organization. On the following days they visited a school near St.
Petersburg to take part on a conference on the topic “Holocaust”, which
was a part of a project, the school worked on. Due to that the students
talked to members of the Jewish community in St. Petersburg and visited
the library of the community.