Russian Research and Education Center "Holocaust"
The Russian Research and Education Center “Holocaust” was founded in Moscow in 1992 and since then has been working on a more intense discussion of the Holocaust issue in Russian society. To date, it is the only non-governmental organization in the Russian Federation devoted to research into the life of Soviet Jews during the Great Patriotic War .
Area of responsibility and activity
The most important areas of responsibility of the center include historical research, holding commemorative events, incorporating the subject of the Holocaust into the curricula of secondary schools and universities, promoting opinion-forming and interviews with contemporary witnesses. In addition, the center regularly organizes exhibitions.
The main task of the center is to educate people about the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War . The specialist library is an important pillar of this work. It has been run since it was founded and has a large number of books in different languages on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union .
The most important target group in educational work are teachers. For them, projects are constantly being developed in which they can take part in courses in order to later pass on the new knowledge to their students as multipliers. The aim is to counteract anti-Semitism and create awareness of what has happened in the past. One of these projects is the international competition Teaching the Holocaust - A Path to Greater Tolerance .
The office, library, archive and course rooms are located in the center of Moscow and were renovated in 2008 thanks to support from JOINT and the Open Society Institute . In addition to the library, the center has a specialist video collection and an archive of personal items from former ghetto residents , participants in the Great Patriotic War and resistance fighters . There is also a seminar room with a regular exhibition, in which traveling exhibitions are regularly presented.
Furthermore, there are monthly meetings of the discussion group The Unknown Holocaust , the youth group and the community of the Righteous Among the Nations . In addition, leading experts from around the world regularly give lectures (including Michael Berenbaum, co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ; Izhak Arad, former director of Yad Vashem ; Paul Levin and Stephane Bruhfeld (Sweden), authors of the book “Tell Your Children About it ”and Shimon Samuels, Director of the European Bureau of the Simon Wiesenthal Center).
Thanks to the Russian, English, Spanish and German-language traveling exhibition "The Holocaust: Annihilation, Liberation, Rescue", which was held in the parliaments of the Russian Federation, Israel, the Czech Republic and Argentina as well as the headquarters of the United Nations and UNESCO . With the help of unique material, the role of the Red Army as the liberator of several National Socialist concentration camps is brought into focus.
management
Alla Gerber , a writer and journalist and former State Duma deputy, is in charge of leadership and is currently President of the Foundation and Co-Chair of the Center. Together with her, Ilya Alexandrowitsch Altman , historian and archivist, co-chairs the center. Henri Reznik, a well-known Russian lawyer, is chairman of the board of trustees, which also includes other personalities from the fields of business, science, culture and politics. On July 10, 2018, Alla Gerber and Ilja Altman will receive the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for their special achievements in upholding commemoration and educational work in the Russian Federation and other countries.
International cooperation
The center cooperates with various organizations on an international level, particularly in Israel , the USA and Germany . This enabled numerous seminars and training opportunities for teachers and students from the former USSR to be held. The partners include Yad Vashem , the Simon Wiesenthal Center , the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC , the Anne Frank Foundation , the University of Gothenburg , the House of the Wannsee Conference , the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , the Jewish Museum Berlin , the German-Russian Museum Karlshorst in Berlin, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg.
For many years the center has been working successfully with the German Action Reconciliation Service for Peace . As part of this cooperation, a volunteer works in the center every year. Since the end of the 1990s, an Austrian memorial service can also be performed. As part of the cooperation with the Austrian Foreign Service , the memorial servant Gabriel Paulus and the chairman of the association, Andreas Maislinger , decided to give the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award to the management of the center. All three organizations have made it their goal to get involved with the victims of National Socialism and to maintain awareness of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Center is also supported by numerous German, English, Israeli and other international foundations.
See also
- Holocaust research
- History of the Jews in Russia
- Holocaust in Eastern Europe
- Baby jar
- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
Web links
- Russian Research and Education Center "Holocaust" (German)
- Russian-Jewish Congress (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the "Holocaust" Center
- ↑ UNESCO announcement on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Teaching of the Holocaust competition - a path to greater tolerance 2006
- ↑ Responsibilities of the "Holocaust" Center
- ^ Opening Holocaust exhibition, Russian FM warns against reviving Nazis . ( timesofisrael.com [accessed May 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Partner organizations of the "Holocaust" Center
- ^ Official projects of Action Reconciliation in Russia
- ↑ Official project description of the Austrian Foreign Service ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
