INFORMATION ON THE COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY IN LITHUANIA
January 27, 2013 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorative events in Lithuania
Memorial event at Radviliskis Vaizgantas Progymnasium, Northern Lithuania
On the 25th January Radviliskis Vaizgantas Progymnasium is hosting a national memorial event to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event is going to be attended by students and teachers from Tolerance Education Centres (TEC). In the first part of the event several educative reports on the historical significance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day marking the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp — the most horrific laboratory of mass murder in history will be given. The lecturers are going to reflect on the tragic destiny of Jewish people and the duty of remembrance.
In the second part of the event several discussion groups and creative workshops will be organised. Arkadijus Vinokuras who is the actor, author and journalist is going to introduce his artistic composition “Civic Society According to Mister Arcade.” More than 150 students and teachers from 14 schools of Lithuania, where TECs are operating, are expected to participate in the event.
For the third year in a row Radviliskis Vaizgantas Progymnasium (Northern Lithuania) becomes the host of national International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. In 2011 the national conference for students and educators was organised. In 2012 the final event of a project “The Butterflies” was held.
The event is organised by the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and Radviliskis Vaizgantas Progymnasium TEC.
Commemorative events in Lithuania, 25 -28 January in Tolerance Education Centres: A great number of schools with active TECs are also going to have some commemorative (multi-subject lessons, pageants, project work presentations) events. Commemorations will take place in cities: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Kedainiai, Kursenai, Panevezys, Varena, Ukmerge, Kelme.
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