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Seminar in Novi Sad

Historical Archive of the City of Novi Sad, 22. February 2018.

Libraries, Archives and Remembrance
in Contemporary Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust

This seminar in Novi Sad organized by Terraforming network was a part of wider program “Libraries, archives and culture of remembrance in contemporary teaching and learning about the Holocaust” as a following continuance of activities after professional training for archivists and librarians at Yad Vashem held in December 2017.

Generous host of this seminar was Historical archive of Novi Sad led by director Petar Đurđev.

In cooperation with The International Tracing Service (ITS) from Bad Arolsen, Germany, this seminar was organized in the frames of collaboration started in 2016 during the project “Escalation into Holocaust – From execution squads to the gas van of the concentration camp at Sajmište: Two defining phases of the Holocaust in Serbia”.

Among other officials, the seminar was attended by Her Excellency Ambassador of Israel in Serbia Dr. Alona Fisher-Kamm, Secretary General of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina Nikola Banjac, etc. Representatives of Yad Vashem were also invited as special guests. Masha Yonin (Director Archival Acquisition Dept. Yad Vashem Archives) and Sara Pećanac representing Yad Vashem Archives was attending the seminar.

LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES
AND REMEMBRANCE
IN CONTEMPORARY TEACHING AND LEARNING
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST

– program developed by Terraforming

In frames of the long-term program of collaboration with archivists and librarians, Terraforming is organizing a series of activities with strategic goal to empower archives and libraries to take an active role in teaching and learning about the Holocaust and other crimes in The Second World War. During the 2018 Terraforming continues to organize a series of program for professional training, seminars, visits, workshops and other activities with the aim to exchange experiences and best practices with leading international institutions and professionals, as well as including archives and libraries from Serbia into international projects and networks in the field of education and commemoration.

With this program Terraforming supports sustainable network of stakeholders in Serbia to build and strengthen in order to contribute to further development of different educational programs about life, culture and history of Jews in Serbia, about the Holocaust in local, regional and European context, as well as about suffering of Serbian, Romani and victims of other nationalities during The Second World War, so as about tradition of anti-fascism in Serbia.

Novi Sad Television prepared an item about the seminar.

Masha Yonin and Sara Pecanac from the Yad Vashem Archive, and dr Akim Jah from the International Tracing Service ITS, during the visit to the Archive of Vojvodine in Novi Sad.

A day before the seminar, for our guests from Israel and Germany we arranged visits to Archive of Vojvodina, The Museum of Vojvodina and The Parliament of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

OVER 60 PARTICIPANTS FROM DRIFERENT CITIES

Over 60 participants from Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica, Vršac, Šabac, Zrenjanin and other cities, as well as guests from abroad attended the seminar. Participants were mainly librarians and archivists, as well as historians, teachers, activists, students, representatives of Jewish community and others.

OVERVIEW ON IMPRESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES FROM TRAINING IN YAD VASHEM

Within the program of the seminar, director of Historical archive of Novi Sad Dr Petar Đurđev and Jelena Đorđević Perc, in front of the City National Library “Žarko Zrenjanin” from Zrenjanin presented their impressions and experiences from training for archivists and librarians in Yad Vashem. Afterword, director of the Terraforming network Miško Stanišić, initiated the discussion with participants of Yad Vashem training who were, among others, Dr. Dragana Jovanović from Matica Srpska Library in Novi Sad, director of the Central Library of the University of Novi Sad Dr. Mirjana Brković, archivists Tijana Kovčić from Historical Archives of Belgrade, director of The Historical Archives of Subotica Stevan Mačković, and Dr. Nenad Antonijević from the Museum of Genocide victims from Belgrade. Participants exchanged their impressions, ideas and suggestions in terms of continuance of collaboration.

PRESENTATION OF WORK OF THE INTERNACIONAL TRACING SEVICE ACTIVITY

Dr. Akim Jah from The International Tracing Service (ITS) from Bad Arolsen led the presentation “Documentation research – memory shaping: archival collection about the Holocaust in The International Tracing Service (ITS) and its use in education”. Presentation was the overview of The International Tracing Service’s (ITS) history and its unique collection of documentation, an insight in pedagogical, archival and academic work, with special emphasis on usage of historical documentation in teaching and learning about the Holocaust.

EXHIBITION “HOW WAS IT HUMANLY POSSIBLE?” AND ADDITION EXHIBITION “SOME WORDS ABUT THE HOLOCAUST IN SERBIA”

Exhibition “How Was It Humanly Possible?” created in traveling exhibition department of Yad Vashem and translated into Serbian language by Terraforming, was publicly presented for the first time in Serbia. Exhibition is a part of an innovative concept Ready2print developed by Yad Vashem for easier distribution, printing and displaying of museum quality exhibitions, providing high-resolution digital online files available for download. 
Likewise, exhibition “Some Words About the Holocaust in Serbia” developed by Terraforming was also presented, that can be used as a supplement to Yad Vashem’s exhibition dedicated to history of the Holocaust in occupied Serbia, or as a stand-alone exhibition (you can find more information on the page Exhibition about the Holocaust). 

EXPERT WORKSHOP FOR LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS

At the end of the program, Dr. Akim Jah conducted an expert workshop for librarians and archivists. Divided into 6 groups, participants were analyzing different examples of historical documentation provided by The International Tracing Service (ITS) about persons from France, Germany, Serbia and other countries.

Many thanks to the Historical archive of Novi Sad and director Petar Đurđev for great cooperation, hospitality and professionalism during the seminar.

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International Tracing Service ITS archives comprise around 30 million documents concerning about National Socialist crimes and the liberated survivors. Founded by Allies at the end of The Second World War with the aim to gather and preserve material from concentration camps, as well as documentation on the exploitation of forced labor and the fates of displaced persons after the Liberation. ITS collected information from the victims of Nazi persecution and their families about incarceration, forced labor and help, if existed, provided by the Allies after the Liberation. Since 2013 archives of The International Tracing Service (ITS) have been listed in UNESCO Register „Memory of the World“

Dr. Akim Jah is a research associate at the Research and Education Branch of the International Tracing Service (ITS). Dr. Jah has been researching and publishing his archival-pedagogical works about the Holocaust. Akim Jah is a part of the education team of The International Tracing Service (ITS) that develops educational materials and conducts workshops for teachers.

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