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Research-Methodical Seminar "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland"

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Belzec Memorial Museum and Majdanek National Museum (Poland) and under the support of American Jewish Committee and Claims Conference are holding on 14-20 August 2010 a research-methodical seminar for Ukrainian secondary school teachers of history and humanities "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland".
The seminar consists of lectures and discussions accompanied with visits to memorial sites of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Its main focus lies in history and culture of Polish and West-Ukrainian Jewish communities before and during WWII.
The seminar will start in Lviv (Ukraine) and proceed to Lubin, Krakow (Poland).

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