On September 23, one hundred  and thirty Lithuanian educational institutions, Tolerance Development Centres, museums and other educational institutions joined a civic initiative “Memory Road“ which has been held for four years. School communities visited the sights of Jewish massacre, read names of killed Jews, teachers shared stories on Jews before WWII as well  appalling massacre of their communities.

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17-28 August in the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 25 teachers and education workers from Lithuania attended ten-day international seminar. The attendees listened to the lectures on the life of Jewish communities before WWII and mass exterminations in Lithuania and Europe. The classes for Lithuanian educators were organised in Yad Vashem museum, archives, reflection and discussion centre.

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5 August 20 educators of different TECs joined the external seminar in Siauliai.  The seminar aimed to introduce the
history of famous industrialist Chaim Frenkel, to visit the places of former Siauliai Ghettos (“Caucasus” and “Trakai Lake”) to learn about the destiny of Siauliai Jewish community in WWII, and visit mass murder sites.

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