HOLOCAUST LESSONS DISCUSSED AT THE LITHUANIAN EMBASSY IN GERMANY
On 29 March in Berlin, Lithuanian Embassy in Germany, in cooperation with the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and North-East Institute at the University of Hamburg, organized a discussion on the Holocaust “Youth in the shadow of the Holocaust. From Kaunas to Palestine.” During the discussion, two Jewish Holocaust survivors - Solly Ganor and Zwi Katz - shared their memories.
Participants of the meeting once again remembered about atrocities of the Holocaust and discussed how to use historical memory in order to prevent such tragedies from happening in the future.Lithuanian Ambassador to Germany Mindaugas Butkus said in his welcoming speech: “Vivid memories of these events have a greater influence than facts and numbers.”
The Ambassador also reminded the participants of the discussion that the Government of Lithuania had declared 2011 as the Year of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Lithuanian Embassy in Germany, in cooperation with Germany’s Centre for Research on Antisemitism, organised a discussion on the Holocaust and the exhibition “The Jewish World of Yesterday, the Hope of Today” in Berlin.
Ganor and Katz were both born in Kaunas. During the war, they were taken from the Kaunas Ghetto and sent to concentration camps in Stutthof and Dachau. Having survived the Holocaust, they moved to Palestine after the war. These two Jewish public figures have published their memoirs. They support education projects.
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