Joint Initiative of the Ministry of Education, UCHS, and the Shoah Memorial
On 26 June 2025, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine hosted a meeting between representatives of the Directorate of School Education and representatives of the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies and the Shoah Memorial (Paris).
The following issues were discussed at the meeting:
- development of Holocaust education in Ukraine
- cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Science, the Shoah Memorial, and Ukrainian specialised institutions
- the challenges of teaching this and other topics related to the history of the Second World War, communist and Nazi crimes, now, during the Russian war in Ukraine.
The meeting was attended by:
- Bruno Boyer, Head of the International Education Department of the Shoah Memorial (Paris)
- Mykhailo Alyokhin, Director of the Directorate of School Education at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
- Raisa Yevtushenko, Chief Specialist of the Department of Educational Content, Extracurricular and Educational Work of the Directorate of School Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
- Pascal Zachary, Memorial Shoah, Paris, teacher of methodology
- Frédéric Saly, University of Grenoble Alpes, lecturer in history and social sciences
- Anatolii Podolskyi, PhD, leading researcher at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies.
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