International conference Facts and Lies in the Common Knowledge of the Holocaust

Auditorium Maximum

Krupnicza 35 street

Krakow

9:00 opening session

9:00 – 9:10 Prof. Daria Nałęcz Opening of the conference

9:10 – 9:20 Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski Introduction

9:20 12:00 Historical session (3 hours). Presentations of the papers – 10 minutes each. Then discussion

Panelists:

1.  Dr. Stephane Bruchfeld Sweden “… a method to awaken the Swedish people from the propaganda hypnosis of the war - on the early origins of ‘historical’ revisionism in Sweden”.

2.  Prof. Dinah Porat Israel “The denial of the Holocaust and Anne Franks’s diary – attacking a symbol”

3.  Prof. Feliks Tych Poland “What kind of information about the Holocaust are seldom presented to the public?”

4.  Dr Anatolij Podolski Ukraine “Holocaust and Tolerance studying in the modern Ukraine”

5.  Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy Ukraine “Anti - Semitism in wartime propaganda in the Crimea: perception of the ‘Jewish question’ in Russian and Crimean Tatar press 1941 – 1944”

6.  Paulina Migalska USA “Polish Concentration and Death Camps: The Holocaust Misrepresented?”

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:30 Sociological session (3 hours) Presentations of the papers – 10 minutes each. Then discussion

Panelists:

1.  Prof. Ireneusz Krzemiński Poland “The Holocaust and memory building”

2.  Prof. Jonathan Webber Great Britain “Mythologizations of the Holocaust:”

3.  Prof. Zdzisław Mach Poland “The Holocaust in public memory and collective identity of Poles”

4.  Dr. Marek Kucia Poland “Holocaust relics, representations, and memory: the case of Auschwitz”

5.  Dr Igor Schupak Ukraine “Stereotypes about the Holocaust among young Ukrainians”

15:30- 16:00 Break

16:00 – 18:00 Educational Session (2 hours) Presentations of the papers – 10 minutes each. Then discussion

Panelists:

1.  Prof. Yehuda Bauer Israel “ The challenges of Holocaust education”

2.  Dr. Jolanta Ambrosewicz – Jacobs Poland “Conflicts of memory. Case study of obstacles in teaching about the Holocaust in Poland”

3.  Dr Hanna Węgrzynek Poland “Education on the Holocaust - changes in the Polish schools curricula,1996 – 2005”

4.  Karen Polak the Netherlands “New perspectives and new myths in educational approaches.”

5.  Christer Mattson Sweden “’Because’ or ‘despite’ denials. Confronting denial in the classroom”