The history course for secondary schools and lyceums will be supplemented with information about the Holocaust. Minister of Education, Culture and Research Monica Babuc said a group of specialists have reviewed the program of study to include such changes for over half a year, IPN reports.
In a press beefing on June 8, given together with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism Rabbi Andrew Baker, Monica Babuc said four information sessions were held for 200 history teachers. After Parliament in 2016 adopted the political declaration on the condemnation of the Holocaust, the Republic of Moldova approved a plan of action for contributing to learning the Holocaust lesson and promoting tolerance in society.
The minister reminded that the Memory Week for ninth-twelfth graders was held in February, for the third consecutive year. In March and April, there was staged a national essay and drawing contest entitled “Holocaust – history and lessons to be learned”. As to the initiative to open a Jewish history museum, Monica Babuc said the Chisinau Municipal Council is to take a decision as regards the transfer of the municipal Jews Library situated on Eugen Doga St, which is to host the museum, under state ownership.
Rabbi Andrew Baker said the progress made by Moldova in education and culture is remarkable. The training of teachers is a significant accomplishment. The opening of the museum is as important. The young generation has now limited access to information about the terrible events of the Holocaust and other tragic periods of history, but the Republic of Moldova, by the taken actions, can become a successful example in this regard.
The Holocaust is a term used to describe the killing of almost 6 million Jews of all ages, mainly from Europe, during World War II as part of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, which was a Jews extermination program planned and implemented under the guidance of Adolf Hitler. The victims included about 1.5 million children.
