Organized by Memorial de la Shoah, the Serbian Ministry of Education, the Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency, the Ministry of Culture and Education from Republika Srpska, the Ministry of Education from the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Macedonian Ministry of Education, the Mémorial of the Macedonian Jews

with the support of German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Balkan, the Holocaust and the mass killings during WWII
Belgrade

October 3rd – 6th

Number of participants: 50 teachers

Language: French, English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian

Organizers: International Relations Department, Shoah Memorial

Serbian Ministry of Education

Dates: Monday, October 3rd – Thursday October 6th

Coordinators: Biljana Stojanovic, Ministry of Education from Serbia

Bruno Boyer, Shoah Memorial

Moderators: Dubravka Stojanovic, University of Belgrade

Bruno Boyer, Shoah Memorial

Monday, October 3rd

2.30 – 3.30 pm Opening.

3.00 – 4.30 pm The roots of Anti-Semitism in Europe.
Georges Bensoussan, Shoah Memorial

4.30 – 4.45 pm Break.

4.45 – 6.30 pm Workshop : How to deal with racial prejudices in classrooms ?

Natacha Chetcuti, Mémorial de la Shoah

Tuesday, October 4th

9.00 – 10.30 am The Jews in the kingdom of Yugoslavia

Milan Koljanin, Institute of contemporary History

10.30 – 10.45 coffee break

10.45 – 12.15 The Holocaust in NDH, Occupied Serbia and Macedonia

Milan Ristovic, University of Belgrade

12.15 – 1.30 pm Lunch.

1.30 – 3.00 The differing logics of mass killings: Security, ideology and the victimization of civilians in Yugoslavia, 1941-45

Tomislav Dulic, Upsaala University

3.00-3.15 Coffee break

3.15 – 4.45 The Case of the 13th SS Division ‘Handschar

Xavier Bougarel, Centre Marc Bloch

4.45 – 6.30 Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust

Workshop

Loranda Miletic, Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency

Wednesday, October 5th

9.00 – 10.30 am NDH : Repressive policies and extermination

Goran Hutinec, University of Zagreb

10.30 am – 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 – 12. 15 The Genocide of the Roma-Sinti

Milovan Pisarri, Center for Holocaust Research and Education

12.15 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 How the Nedic regime collaborated with the Nazis

Olga Pintar Manjolovic, Institute for recent history in Serbia

3.00 – 4.00 Jews and the civil war in Serbia

Aleksej Timofejev, Faculty of Philosophy

4.00 – 7.00 pm Visit of Toposvke supe and Jabuka killing sites

Thursday, October 6th

9.00 – 10.30 To what extent the war of the 90’s are linked to the mass violence of the 40’s

Simon Rico, Courrier des Balkans

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

10.30 - 1.00 Workshop 1: Anti-semitic representations from Nazi propaganda to digital age

Fabrice Teicher, formateur

Workshop 2 : X

1.00 – 2.30 Conclusion

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