This year an International Tolerance Day was by marked by more than 900 schools, kindergartens and institutions of non-formal education. This year‘s symbol is a Tolerance Bird. Particpants of this civic initiative were offered to use a bird symbol so that they could develop the theme looking at the parallels of nature, people‘s life and history.
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Teachers working in Tolerance Development Centres gathered together in the south west of Lithuania, in Kalvarija on November 4-5th.  A two-day seminar “History in the Eyes of Witnesses“ dealt with several topics: one aspect was how to approach witnesses‘ reports in history lessons. Another point was the presentation of a teaching tool for teachers “Stories from the Past“ this material  embodies stories of rescuing Jews in Lithuania during WWII.
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The  international conference “Local Analysis of the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Eastern and Western European Countries“ was held on October 27-28th. The aim of the conference was to mark the Holocaust in Lithuania  which broke out 75 years ago when a mass massacre of Lithuanian Jews  started.

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