EXHIBITION DEVOTED TO REMEMBRANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS IN LITHUANIA OPENED AT THE PRAGUE MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
13 April Lithuanian Ambassador in the Czech Republic Mr Aurimas Taurantas, Prague Municipal Library director Mr Tomas Rehak and Mr Jan Kalousek-Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Prague City Council opened photograph exhibition “The Jewish World of Yesterday, the Hope of Today: Pictures and Stories from the Centropa Interviews in Lithuania”. It exhibits remembrances and photographs of the Lithuanian Jews who survived the Holocaust allowing to get acquainted with the life between the wars of the Jewish community, to better know their traditions, leisure time and education.The Exhibition is dedicated to remembrance of the Holocaust Victims in Lithuania. It was prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the non-governmental organisation Centropa based in Vienna.
Ambassador Mr Aurimas Taurantas accented that 2011 was announced the remembrance year of the Holocaust Victims in Lithuania. Lithuania commits itself to educational work which is one of priority tasks of Lithuania’s chairmanship of the OSCE.Ambassador was pleased to welcome students of the Prague gymnasium “Přírodní Škola” at the opening of the exhibition. The Gymnasium took active part in a yearlong project “Shoa-Holocaust”. The children shared their feelings which they experienced reading Jewish teenagers‘ magazine ”Vedem” published in 1942-1944 in Terezin concentration camp in the Czech language.
The exhibition which is a part of Lithuania‘s initiated events for developing tolerance through education was already introduced in Prague 23-24 March during the Conference Confronting Anti-Semitism in Public Discourse at the MFA
The exhibition will still go to Austria, Germany, other European cities and Israel. It will come back to Lithuania in summer and will be displayed at the Centre of Tolerance and other places of culture and education.
