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.
