"AWARENESS
RESPONSIBILITY
FUTURE"
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE
Experts from 14 countries participated in a conference on education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. It was part of the 70th anniversary of establishing the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
“Awareness – Responsibility – Future” was the title of a recent international educational conference dedicated to education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. It was part of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Prof. Piotr Gliński, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, assumed honorary patronage over the conference.
More than 150 people from 14 countries participated in the conference, including Belgium, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany Poland, the United States and Great Britain.
and Great Britain. The attendees were experts in education at Memorial Sites and Holocaust museums, as well as historians, teachers, educators and methodologists. The conference's special guests were witnesses to history, former prisoners of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The conference was organised by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, which organises this type of methodological reflection meeting every two years.
The conference focused on the following issues:
• “Auschwitz Message - particularism versus universalism”
• “Contemporary representation and reception of Auschwitz”
• “Witnesses of history, depositories of memory”
• “Memory carriers - material evidence and new technologies”
• “Visit to the memorial site as a special educational experience”
• “Shoah, a challenge for the future”
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Paweł Sawicki