Holocaust. Based on IHRA recommendations, a workshop on Holocaust education was facilitated by Loranda Miletić from the ETTA (Education and Teacher Training Agency).
Another workshop, facilitated by Biljana Ristić and Snežana Vuković from Serbian Ministry of Education, used Cadik Danon’s biography in its session under the Council of Europe Reference framework of Competences for Democratic Culture in teaching History.
The seminar also highlighted new educational themes, including topics like gender-based violence as a weapon of war, as well as the Holocaust in literary histories and fiction, drawing on Bife Titanik, a short story by Ivo Andrić. The Holocaust in fiction workshop was facilitated by Marijo Kosović, a teacher from Zagreb. Finally, the seminar hosted by Dejan Ristić, Director of the Genocide Museum in Belgrade, and Tomislav Dulić from Uppsala University, both experts on the Jasenovac concentration camp, gave an eye-opening presentation on the camp’s history and recent research around it.
The seminar also concluded with an educational site visit, this time to Staro Sajmište and Autokomanda transit camps in Belgrade from which Jews and other victims were taken to killing sites in Serbia.