The seminars were organised in cooperation with the education authorities and NGOs from participating countries, while the lecturers and workshop facilitators are experts and practitioners from participating countries, as well as international experts in the field of Holocaust education, research and remembrance. The seminars gathered 40 primary and secondary school teachers of various school subjects from the participating countries.<\/p>\n
The cooperation between the Education and Teacher Training Agency of the Republic of Croatia (ETTA – AZOO) and the M\u00e9morial de la Shoah began over a decade ago, and was strengthened in 2015 when ETTA joined the initiative of implementing regional seminars as a partner institution. This is especially important because Loranda Mileti\u0107 (ETTA), a prominent figure within the IHRA Educational Working Group, who has been a member of the Croatian delegation the IHRA since 2005, took part in leading and facilitating these regional seminars.<\/p>\n
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<\/h3>\nA dialogue among Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia<\/h3>\n
The 9th<\/sup> Regional Dialogue within the framework of the Holocaust as a Starting Point:<\/em> A dialogue among Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia<\/em>, was held jointly by the M\u00e9morial de la Shoah (France), Education and Teacher Training Agency (Croatia), the Ministry of Education (Serbia), and EUROCLIO (Bosnia and Herzegovina) took place at the First School of Economy in Belgrade, from 7\u20139 March 2023.<\/p>\n The seminar enabled the participants to gain insights into the \u201cbig picture\u201d of events before and during WWII in South-East Europe. Milan Koljanin (Institute for Modern History, Belgrade) talked about antisemitism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Goran Hutinec (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb) presented the Policy of mass murders in the occupied territory of Yugoslavia, and Milan Ristovi\u0107 (Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade) gave an overview of the saving of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n Less experienced teachers had an opportunity to learn how to teach about the Holocaust within the workshop on the IHRA recommendations for teaching and learning about the Holocaust, facilitated by Loranda Mileti\u0107 (ETTA), and well as within the workshop on the Council of Europe\u2019s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture in teaching history on the example of Cadik Danon\u2019s biography, facilitated by Biljana Risti\u0107 and Sne\u017eana Vukovi\u0107 (Serbian Ministry of Education).<\/p>\n Relatively recent subjects in Holocaust historiography were also touched upon, namely Weapons of war-Gender violence against women in the Holocaust, <\/em>as well as Holocaust in literature (History and Fiction in Bife Titanik, a short story by Ivo Andri\u0107<\/em>), <\/em>which was facilitated by Marijo Kosovi\u0107, gymnasium teacher from Zagreb.<\/p>\n The theme discussed the most was the issue of conflicting narratives in historiography relating to the example of Jasenovac concentration and death camp, presented by Dejan Risti\u0107, director of the Genocide Museum in Belgrade and Tomislav Duli\u0107 from Uppsala University. Seminar participants took part in the study visit to Staro Sajmi\u0161te camp and Autokomanda transit camp in Belgrade, where from Jews and other victims were taken to killing sites in Serbia.<\/p>\n The 6th<\/sup> Regional Dialogue within the framework of the Holocaust as a Starting Point: A dialogue among Croatia, Italy and Slovenia<\/em>, took place from 29-31 March 2023 in Trieste, Italy. The seminar was organised by the M\u00e9morial de la Shoah (France), Education and Teacher Training Agency (Croatia), Ministry of Education (Italy), and the Institute of Education (Slovenia).<\/p>\n Contemporary Europe is marked by the rise of nationalism, antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and extremist ideologies. Some elements of the extremist discourse are based on the distortion of history related to Holocaust and WWII. Education is one of the most effective means of preventing and reverting these trends. That is the key reason why the focus of the program is on teachers as persons who can influence the worldviews and values of the future youth.<\/p>\n Professor Raoul Pupo from the University of Trieste held a lecture about different forms of political violence in the region of northern Adriatic, from the Great War to the capitulation of Italy in 1943.<\/p>\nA dialogue among Croatia, Italy and Slovenia<\/h3>\n