DISCUSSION PANEL
Sharing Memory and Shared Memory
Moderator: Nataliia Tkachenko, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Poland
Lea Micha is a political scientist and researcher. She has worked in Yad Vashem since 2013, initially as a researcher at the International Institute for Holocaust Research (the Deportation Database and Research project) and later in the Righteous among the Nations department. She is currently the head of the Desk for Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. Micha holds a BA in Political Science and a Research Master’s degree (Master 2 Recherche) in International Relations from Sorbonne University (Paris I), France, as well as a BA in Religions from the University of Athens, Greece. She started her PhD on Greek foreign policy towards Israel in the department of Political Science and International Relations at Sorbonne University. Micha also worked as Research Fellow at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, as a scholar of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a researcher and publications’ editor at the Jewish Museum in Greece.
Prof. Claudia Lenz is a Professor in Social Science at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society and holds a chair in prevention of antisemitism and racism. She also works as a Research Professor at the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo. Her fields of teaching and research are prevention of group-focused enmity in education, education for democratic citizenship, and the role of memory culture and historical consciousness in history didactics. Lenz is co-founder of Dembra (Democratic readiness against racism and antisemitism),
currently leading the teacher education branch.
Tad Stahnke is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s William and Sheila Konar director of International Educational Outreach and director of the Museum’s Initiative on Holocaust Denial and State-Sponsored Antisemitism, advancing the Museum’s mission to establish the relevance of the Holocaust for new generations.
Dmytro Hainetdinov is the deputy director general of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. He was born in 1992 in the city of Poltava, Ukraine. He studied history at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2014, he has been working at the War Museum as a tour guide, the head of the Educational department, the head of