NATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY WAS COMMEMORATED IN MANY PLACES OF LITHUANIA
September 23rd is the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews. This date was set up by Lithuania Parliament in 1994 to the memory of the victims of liquidatedVilnius ghetto, murdered in Paneriai in 1943.
By the initiative of the International Historical Commission and Radviliškis Vaižgantas Progymnasium Tolerance Educational Centre on September 21st exhibition „Butterfly” was opened in the Prime Ministers’ office (Gedimino ave. 11,Vilnius). The Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius personally opened the exhibition. Cabinet ministers, foreign diplomats, Lithuanian Jewish Community members, students and teachers who created the exhibition were presented at the opening ceremony. The exhibition “Butterfly” was created in 2011 – 2012 during implementation of the national project dedicated to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27. The students from more than 70 schools created more than 6000 butterflies, which symbolize souls of innocent Jewish children perished during the Holocaust.
In response to the proposal of International Historical Commission, on September 21-24 the events for commemoration of Lithuanian Jews tragedy were organized in different places ofLithuania. About 200 schools and education institutions inLithuaniapaid respect to the memory of the victims. Commemorations were organized in different forms: lessons, lectures, remembrance events in mass murder places. During these events student created symbolic books “Life and the tragedy of Lithuanian Jews”.
An official state commemoration was held in Paneriai, on the 24th of September. Students from fiveVilnius schools - Tolerance Educational Centres - participate and created the symbolic book “Shoah inLithuania”.
The International Historical Commission (as a part of their comprehensive educational initiative “Holocaust and Tolerance Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity”) every year since 2003 initiates the commemoration of the National Holocaust Remembrance Day at schools and educational institutions.
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