First training operation for Serbian students
The Shoah Memorial conducted its first initial training activity in Serbia from 20 to 22 February 2016, offering students from Belgrade two days dedicated to the Holocaust and mass crimes in the Balkans.
Within the framework of a partnership with the history department of the faculty of philosophy in Belgrade (coordinator: Dubravka Stojanovic) the Memorial proposed on an experimental basis, to the master’s and bachelor’s students a two-day module devoted to the Holocaust and mass crimes in the Balkans, two subjects hitherto absent as such in the curriculum.
While the region is experiencing a resurgence of tension and the reduction of mass crimes now has a voice in certain state spheres, the intervention of Croatian researchers (Goran Hutinec, Danièle Vojak) in Belgrade before a Serbian audience on topics as sensitive as the Jasenovac camp makes sense here.
In view of the feedback from the participants (60 students) on this first experience, the two partners have decided to continue their cooperation by integrating the next activity in 2016-2017 within the study path and thus giving rise to an academic validation.
