First Conference of Ukrainian Graduates of Yad Vashem
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Yad Vashem Authority (Jerusalem) and under the support of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs of Israel held on the 4 October 2011 in Kyiv the first conference of Ukrainian teachers-graduates of the research-educational qualification programme in the Holocaust history and education of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. All the Ukrainian graduates of this program were invited.
The first conference of Ukrainian graduates was devoted to the 70 anniversary of the mass murder at Baby Yar, commemorating the victims of Nazi terror against our nationals - the Jews of Ukraine - during World War Two.
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