The program was developed by TOLI – The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (Oana Bajka) in partnership with the Holocaust Documentation Center in Bratislava (Dokumentačné stredisko holokaustu, Jan Hlavinka) and the ESJF.
The seminar was opened by special guests: Dr. Thomas Kurz, Ambassador of Germany to Slovakia (Nemecké veľvyslanectvo Bratislava); Elizabeth Blumenthal, Public Affairs Officer at the (U.S. Embassy Slovakia; and Martin Kornfeld, Secretary General of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Slovakia (Židia na Slovensku).
Alexandra Fishel, ESJF Educational Projects Officer, gave a lecture on how to understand and “read” Jewish cemeteries. Following the lecture, participants visited the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery and the Chatam Sofer Memorial, where they practiced what they had just learned. This part of the seminar was supported by the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt).
This was already the second seminar that TOLI has organized in partnership with ESJF, and we are truly delighted by this collaboration!