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, teaching communities with divergent historical narratives. It is divided this year into 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.
The result 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 the 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 teachers to express themselves on the difficulties related to the teaching of the Shoah in the Baltic States, and also to develop new methods for teaching about the Shoah.
This operation was co-financed by the
