Training activities aim at:

  • encourage the states signatory to the 1954 European Cultural Convention to include the study of the Holocaust in their school curriculum in order to ensure that each European pupil will be at least taught once during his schooling about the Holocaust
  • organise in cooperation with Education ministries European workshops for trainers and teachers to deepen their knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity
  • to meet European  teachers' needs for teaching material used in the classroom

Training seminars organised in the framework of the Programme

30/10 -2/11/2016 : Seminar on “The remembrance of the Holocaust: educational and pedagogical challenges”

27-28/05/2014 : La Bulgarie et les Juifs pendant l’Holocauste. Sofia (Bulgaria)
For further information check the French version of this website
 

4-8/09/2012: Passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust  and prevention of crimes against humanity. Tirana (Albania).
This workshop started with a ceremony to give an opportunity to the European Youth to pay tribute to those who saved the honour of Human kind during the Holocaust.

These events afforded an opportunity to highlight the Albanian muslim population's exceptional attitude to its Jewish population during the war, to raise awareness, among participants, particularly the younger ones, of the citizens' reflex shown by those persons who saved Jews’ lives, and to grasp what the witnesses present had experienced. They also enabled a group of around 30 teachers to improve their skills in the passing on of the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Message to the "Righteous"

"You listened to your heart and your wisdom. You saved human lives and hope in humanity has been saved."
Message to the survivors


"Thank you for having kept faith in humanity, and to give young people the hope of a better world, more tolerant and respectful of individual differences."
Message to the Youth leaders

"One day you will tell it to your children
The one who forgets its past is doomed to live it again."

This training for teachers and educators from secondary school covered issues related to the history and passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust. The teaching of these issues requires different teaching tools on how to address these subjects, particularly in history, but also from the analysis of films, visits of authentic memorial sites, sources of archives. This workshop was an opportunity to put into perspective the various European approaches on the topic and to exchange know how in terms of innovative teaching practices. 15 Albanian teachers and 15 teachers from the other signatory states to the European Cultural Convention took part in this workshop.

17-19/05/2011: Histoire et mémoire des camps d’internement en France. Questions didactiques et pédagogiques. Lycée Agricole de Beaune la Rolande (France)
For further information check the French version of this website

16-20/03/2004 History and remembrance, Education for the prevention of crimes against humanity. Brussels (Belgium)
For further information check the French version of this website

European workshops organised with the Shoah Memorial in Paris

Those European workshops are organised on a yearly basis since 2008 with the Shoah Memorial in Paris for teacher trainers and teachers from European Cultural Convention signatory states, with goals of acquiring scientific knowledge, applying educational methods and pooling European experiences.

  • 20-23/04/2015 : Seminar for members of the Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice of the Council of Europe or their representatives (Programme)
  • 20-22/04/2014 : Seminar for members of the Field Offices of the Council of Europe or their representatives
  • 25-28/11/2013: L’histoire de la Shoah et Prévention des crimes contre l’Humanité.
  • 11-14/02/2013: Transmission de la mémoire de l'Holocauste et prévention des crimes contre l'humanité (French only)
  • 23-26/04/2012: Transmission de la mémoire de l'Holocauste et prévention des crimes contre l'Humanité. (French only)
  • 16-19/11/2010: Histoire de la Shoah et des génocides du XXème siècle.
  • 03-06/05/2010: Histoire de la shoah et des génocides du XXème siècle.
  • 17-20/11/2009: Histoire de la Shoah et des génocides du XXème siècle. (Report in French only)
  • 19-21/11/2008: Histoire de la Shoah et des génocides au XXème siècle.
  • 01-03/07/2008: Histoire de la Shoah et des génocides au XXème siècle.

Others European Workshops

Several other workshops have been organised in close cooperation with the host countries. Some of them took place in the framework of the  Council of Europe “Pestalozzi” training programme for education professionals. They aimed at giving teachers the opportunity :

  • to deepen their knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity;
  • provide them with information and appropriate facilities vis-à-vis new teaching methods,
  • make them aware of the history of the Holocaust in the other member states,
  • exchange innovatory practices and acquire a Europe-wide vision of Holocaust-related events.

This exchange dimension has been one of the most valuable inputs from these seminars.

In Poland

European workshops have been organized in Poland since 2006 and were a result of the
obligation undertaken by the Polish Minister of Education, Miroslaw Sawicki, during the European Seminar of Ministers of Education of the European Council that took place in May 4-6, 2005.

The theme and the programme of workshops refer to teaching about Remembrance in the
context of the Holocaust Remembrance Day and prevention of crimes against humanity.

The partners of the workshops were: the Council of Europe, the Ministry of National Education, the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Pedagogical University of Cracow.
 

European workshops organised with the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust and the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

  • 22-28/10/2017: “The role of NGOs and NGYOs in passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust and the prevention of crimes against humanity”
  • 18-23/10/2014: History – Memory – Education. KL Auschwitz a year before liberation (Programme)
  • 26-31/10/2013: Passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust  and the elimination of people with disabilities during the Nazi time. (Programme - Report)
  • 08-14/10/2011: Teaching about the Holocaust: Integration of Site Visits in the pedagogical work.
  • 10-16/10/2010: Auschwitz and the Holocaust in the context of teaching remembrance in Europe
  • 20-26/09/2009: Auschwitz and the Holocaust in the Context of Teaching Remembrance in Europe. (Report in French)
  • 07-13/09/2008: Auschwitz - Remembering for the Future. Teaching the Holocaust in the Authentic Memorial Site.
  • 12-17/10/2007: Auschwitz - History, Memory and  Education.
  • 10-15/09/2006: Auschwitz – History and Symbolism.
     

Other training seminars organised in the framework of the programme for the professional development of teachers and education actors, Pestalozzi

  • 27-29/04/2015: Roma Genocide in Europe. Graz (Austria)
  • 07-09/04/2014: Value of Life. Hartheim Castle Memorial Site (Austria).
  • 26/04-01/05/2009: Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, Zagreb/Jasenovac (Croatia)
  • 11-13/12/2008: Teaching and Learning about National Socialism and the Holocaust: An International Comparison. Vienna (Austria)
  • 31/07-03/08/2008: The Remembrance of the Holocaust and of the Roma Samudaripen. Budapest (Hungary), organised in cooperation with the Council of Europe « Education of Roma children in Europe » project.
  • 27-28/09/2007: Teaching Remembrance: Education for the prevention of crimes against humanity. (Norway)
  • 25-27/01/2007: The Holocaust: History and Memory Zagreb (Croatia).
  • 04-06/03/2007: Zeitzeug/innen des Nationalsozialismus berichten (Austria)
  • 18-19/12/2006: How to teach the Roma Holocaust ? Strasbourg (France), organised in cooperation with the Council of Europe « Education of Roma children in Europe » project.
  • 09-12/11/2006: Austrians as perpetrators – Austrians as victims (Österreicher/innen als Täter - Österreicher/innen als Opfer), Neustadt (Austria)
  • 20-22/01/2006: Teaching and Remembering about the Holocaust. Slovak Republic.
  • 16-17/04/2004: Teaching remembrance – Education for the prevention of crimes against humanity. Budapest (Hungary). (Proceedings)