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Seminars in 2023
Hackathon & Technology in Jewish Cemetery Preservation Webinar
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On 19th and 20th June, 25 students from the seven grant countries joined ESJF for a two day online hackathon and webinar on technology in Jewish cemetery preservation. With sessions on the application of drones in the work of the...
Jewish Cemeteries As Visitor Destinations Webinar
This webinar, hosted by The Foundation for Jewish Heritage, was aimed at those who lead work with Jewish heritage and heritage industry experts. The webinar explored how and to what extent Jewish cemeteries are currently being used as visitor destinations...
Jewish Cemeteries As Visitor Destinations – Webinar
This webinar, hosted by The Foundation for Jewish Heritage, was designed for those working as tour guides. Throughout the day a rich range of speakers from across central and eastern Europe shared their experiences and visions about how to engage...
Seminars in 2022
Technology in Jewish Cemetery Preservation Seminar in Ukraine
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On 16th and 17th November, the ESJF held a seminar with 35 attendees at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences Of Ukraine on the use of UAV data and drone technology in Jewish heritage preservation. Despite being interrupted...
International seminar for history and citizenship teachers in Bratislava, Slovakia (in cooperation with Euroclio)
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In October 2022, Centropa and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage (FJH) and Euroclio held a two-day two-day training seminar for history and citizenship teachers in Bratislava for 33 teachers from all over Europe on “Teaching Jewish heritage in your class.”...
Teacher Training Seminar in Ukraine (online)
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Due to the war in Ukraine, our teacher training seminar for Ukrainian teachers had to be held online this year. The consortium partners were closely watching the situation and deeply concerned about the safety of the teachers there. Before the...
International seminar in Chișinău, Moldova
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The seminar, organized with our Moldovan partners EcoVisio, began with introductory remarks by organizers and partners Natalia Corobca from KAS and Aliona Grossu from the Jewish community. This was followed by guided visits to the Chisinau Jewish cemetery and a...
International seminar in Siauliai, Lithuania
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The EU3 seminar in Lithuania for 30 teachers took place in Lithuania’s fourth-largest city, Siauliai, on 27th-28th June 2022. A keynote on preserving Jewish heritage in Lithuania and cemetery sites specifically, held by director Milda Jakulyte-Vasil of the Lithuanian organization...
International seminar in Krakow, Poland
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The EU3 seminar for Polish teachers focused on imbuing Polish educators with the tools and knowledge to use Jewish cemeteries in their classroom. After introducing Centropa materials and how they can be used in the classroom, the keynote by Prof...
International Seminar In Szombathely, Hungary
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The “Jewish Cemeteries in Education” seminar in Hungary was held in Szombathely, on 29-30 May 2022. 30 teachers from 15 towns and 22 schools took part in the seminar. They came from all over Hungary, 23 teachers from the countryside...
International seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia
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In the morning, participants had the chance to do an hands-on Workshop on reading epitaphs with Esther Zyskina (co-author ESJF handbook and Phd student at the Hebrew University Jerusalem) Participants learned how to calculate a date, find the beginning and...
International seminar in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
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The seminar began with introductory remarks by Dr Jana Odrobiňáková (MSNP), Magdalena Farnesi (Centropa Budapest), (ESJF) and local representatives and invited guests. A screening of the short film: "Foundation ESJF and its rescue program Jewish cemeteries" was followed by a...
Seminars in 2020
International seminar in Georgia (online)
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From December 1 -2 we organized an online seminar for Georgian educators. The training seminar allowed participants to learn about the Jewish cultural heritage of Georgia from renowned experts. Furthermore, we introduced our participants to Centropa‘s educational tools, examined Georgian-Jewish...
International seminar in Ukraine (Online)
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In this training seminar 52 participants learned about the Jewish cultural heritage of Ukraine from renowned experts. Furthermore, we introduced our participants to Centropa‘s and ESJF‘s educational tools, took a closer look at how to include Jewish cemeteries in education...
International seminar in Debrecen, Hungary
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Centropa and ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) organized a joint two-day training seminar for Hungarian educators which took place from October 18-19, 2020 in Debrecen. The Eastern part of Hungary was once famous for its large Jewish population, this is...
International seminar in Zagreb, Croatia
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Centropa and ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) organized a joint two-day training seminar for 28 teachers from Croatia which took place from September 13-14, 2020 in Zagreb. The training seminar allowed participants to learn about Jewish cultural heritage in Croatia...
International seminar in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
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On September 13-14, we organized our seminar ‘Teaching Jewish heritage in your class. Using Jewish cemeteries in education’ in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, in partnership with the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising ( Múzeum Slovenského Národného Povstania ). The aim...
International seminar in Kaunas, Lithuania
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In 2020 Centropa began cooperation with ESJF whose goal is to register, restore and catalogue Jewish cemeteries all over Eastern Europe as well as to provide educators in Eastern European countries with tools to teach Eastern European Jewish history through...
International seminar in Kraków, Poland
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Centropa and ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) in cooperation with the Galicja Jewish Museum organized a joint two-day training seminar for 30 teachers from Poland, which took place from August 23-24, 2020, in Kraków. The training seminar allowed participants to...