The international scientific and educational seminar ‘Holocaust: Annihilation, Resistance, Salvation’ was organised by the Holocaust Research and Education Centre (Moscow). During several days, representatives of 12 regions of Russia visited memorials in Brest and Bronnaya Gora, Novogrudok and Minsk, and discussed with their Belarusian colleagues topical issues of historical science and education.
At a round table at the Pushkin Brest State University ‘Righteous People of the World: Pedagogical Aspect’, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov shared his experience in implementing regional educational projects that tell the story of the Holocaust and the participation of South Ural residents in the Great Patriotic War (poster and multimedia exhibitions, animated series, board games and VR-quests). The exhibition ‘Lessons of Nuremberg’ was held in the third building of CSU. It became the basis for career guidance sessions conducted by students with schoolchildren.
As part of their summer educational and technological practice, students studying on the Master's programme ‘Pedagogical Design’ independently created a virtual museum ‘Peoples of the Southern Urals’ intended for schoolchildren. Master's students Anna and Yuri Ivantsov decided to include in the content of the digital educational resource a story about the history of the rescue of Jewish families evacuated fr om Belarus and Ukraine to Chelyabinsk.
Yana Kaitmazova has been doing research since she was a school student to find our fellow countrymen who participated in the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest death camp wh ere the Nazis killed more than 1 million 200 thousand people, mostly Jews. Now Yana is a student of the Faculty of History and Philology, she managed to restore the names and biographies of more than 30 South Urals - liberators of the peoples of Europe. The search work will continue with the study of the exploits of natives of the South Urals - the defenders of the Brest Fortress and participants of the Bagration operation to liberate Belarus.
‘The seminar discussed the results of the implementation of the law on genocide of the Belarusian people and the development of a similar bill in Russia. This is a very important topic, it requires legal elaboration of international legal terminology, content and correlation of the concepts of ‘genocide’, ‘crimes against humanity’, ‘war crimes’. In this work it is good to use the experience of scientific research of Victoria Klamm, a graduate of the Faculty of History and Philology, who successfully defended her thesis on the legislation dedicated to the days of military glory of Russia and commemorative dates, including the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January). Victoria won the International Competition ‘Holocaust: Remembrance and Prevention’ among students’. - said Vyacheslav Kuznetsov.
As a result of the seminar, new ideas and projects emerged, and agreements were reached to continue international co-operation in studying the history of the Great Patriotic War and preserving the historical memory of the heroes of the Resistance and Soviet soldiers who defeated Nazism.
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