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IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust

Each IHRA Member Country is committed to encouraging the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. However, teaching about this complex and sensitive topic appropriately – and adapting it to the...

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Commemoration ceremony at Rahumäe Jewish cemetery

Date: 27 January 2023
 
 Official commemoration event, with speeches by the Minister of Education Mr. Tõnis Lukas, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Ambassador of Israel, Head of the Jewish Community, and...

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Commemoration ceremony at Lasnamäe Memorial Stone

Date: 27 January 2023
 
 Commemoration ceremony at the location of the former Tallinn airbase workshops where French Jews, deported from Drancy by Convoi 73 were forced to work.
 
 In the presence of...

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Winter school for secondary school students

Date: 27- 29 January 2023
 
 A three-day thematic Winter school for secondary school students and teachers, in the framework of all-Estonian competition to create innovative materials for teaching and...

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Seminar: “Defending EU values in the time of the war”

Date: 27 January 2023
 
 Seminar “Defending EU values in the time of the war” organised by the European Commission Representation in Estonia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of the...

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How to Teach about the Holocaust

The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened....

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What to Teach about the Holocaust

The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened...

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Why Teach About the Holocaust

Considering how best to make any examination of the Holocaust meaningful and relevant for learners in their national contexts is essential. This section is meant to help policymakers, school...

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Summary: Why, What, and How to Teach about the Holocaust

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. A continent-wide genocide, it destroyed not only...

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Estonia unveils memorial for Holocaust victims in Tallinn

On 27 January 2022 a memorial was unveiled at the Liiva Cemetery in Tallinn in memory of Estonian Jews who were murdered in an anti-tank trench in the city and nearby in 1941. 300 to 600 Estonian Jews...

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