Although the programme was designed primarily for museum staff and cultural heritage specialists, we were delighted to welcome a much broader audience of participants.
The lectures explored a wide range of topics related to Jewish heritage documentation and preservation in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Our speakers included Dr. Serafima Velkovich, Head of the Family Roots Research Department, Yad Vashem Archives (Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem), Dr. Vladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Anna Berezin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sara Shor, Artifacts Collection Specialist, Yad Vashem, Esther Zyskina, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-author of the Jewish Cemeteries in the Classroom: An ESJF Guide.
A special thank you to our moderators, Ilya Lensky, Director of the Museum “Jews in Latvia”, and Alexandra Fishel, ESJF Educational Projects Officer.
If you missed the event or would like to revisit the presentations, you can watch the full recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plEzbj-29mA&feature=youtu.be
We are grateful to the German Federal Foreign Office for its ongoing support of ESJF’s work.