"The Holocaust as a starting point": a European system for teaching history, from Paris to Vilnius

The "Shoah as a starting point" program is a device initiated by the Shoah Memorial in 2015 and which aims to bring together, on a regional or national scale, teacher communities with divergent historical narratives. It is declined this year in 14 European training courses divided into two levels beginner and advanced.

The network is made up of about thirty partners: ministries of national education, teachers' associations, museums, etc.

This third of the Baltic dialogue brought together 34 Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian professors in Vilnius from 18 to 20 September.

Fruit of a partnership between the Jewish Museum in Tallinn, the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia, and the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, the work focused on the processes of the Holocaust in the Baltic States, the relations between Jews and Christians under the Tsarist Empire and the local policies of collaboration. The pedagogical workshops allowed, on the one hand, teachers to express themselves on the difficulties related to the teaching of the Shoah in the Baltic states, and on the other hand, to develop new methods of teaching about the Shoah.

This operation was co-financed by the Claims Conference.