Wiesenthal Center Coordinates Largest-Ever Seminar on Holocaust History and Education in Balkans

January 20, 2009

 WIESENTHAL CENTER COORDINATES LARGEST-EVER SEMINAR ON HOLOCAUST HISTORY AND EDUCATION IN BALKANS

Novi Sad, Serbia-The Simon Wiesenthal Center is coordinating the largest seminar on Holocaust history and education ever held in the Balkans, which opens here today and will continue for three days. Organized by Dr. Ana Frenkel, President of the Novi Sad Jewish community, with the support of the Serbian government, the Novi Sad municipality, and the Claims Conference, the seminar is slated to host approximately 300 participants, most of whom are university lecturers, high school and elementary school teachers, and university students from all over Serbia, it is being coordinated by the Center’s Israel director Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, who will also deliver three keynote lectures. Among the noted foreign scholars who will participate in the seminar are Holocaust historian and Director of the Yad Vashem Library, Dr. Robert Rozett; noted Holocaust education expert Dr. Karen Shawn of Yeshiva University, and Dr. Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University.

According to Dr. Zuroff:

“The seminar is a unique opportunity for Serbian intellectuals, lecturers, teachers and historians to be exposed to the latest in Holocaust research and educational methods and to help them expand and improve the level of Holocaust education in Serbia. It is hoped that this will be the first of many additional conferences.”

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