The project “La Shoah comme point de départ” received financial support from the European Union in 2022. International relations

The project “The Shoah as a starting point” has received financial support from the European Union through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) – Remembrance component.

Six training seminars were organized in 2022 by the Shoah Memorial with its European partners (Ministry of Education, NGOs, museum). 282 teachers/education staff from 13 European countries (France, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain) participated in these courses.

Taking the Shoah as a starting point and emphasizing local history, the six training courses aimed to address sensitive and common regional problems, and contemporary educational challenges such as racial prejudice, conspiracy theory, hate speech and gender-based violence. They provided teachers with the content and tools needed to teach about the Holocaust and local mass atrocities in Europe related to the 20th century, promote critical thinking among students and deal with negative classroom attitudes (denial or distortion of the Holocaust, nationalist visions, etc.).

For more information on the different sessions: