In mid-April, Tolerance Education Centers operating in Lithuania joined the “Yellow Daffodil” initiative.
The “Yellow Daffodil” initiative commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on April 19, 1943. For several years, Tolerance Education Centers operating in Lithuanian educational institutions have responded to the call to learn about the heroic history of the uprising and to make yellow paper daffodils, the symbol of the initiative. As part of educational activities, they pin this symbol to their clothes. In 2026, 27 Lithuanian schools and other educational institutions joined the initiative. Teachers and students made daffodils from yellow paper and organized activities, including film screenings with discussions and analyses of texts and photographs. They discussed not only the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the fates of its participants but also the heroic ongoing four-year struggle for Ukrainian freedom.
The annual “Yellow Daffodil” initiative, organized by the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, serves as a reminder of this significant and painful historical event. It also invites people to remember Marek Edelman, a participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who escaped after the Nazis suppressed the uprising. Every year, on the anniversary of the uprising, Edelman would bring yellow daffodils to the monument commemorating it.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Secretariat of the International Commission has invited Tolerance Education Centers to participate in this initiative, which fosters historical memory and conveys the message that evil must be resisted.
