GRANTEE
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies
Manager of Educational Programs
The project involves collecting testimonies from Ukrainian teachers experiencing the Russian war against Ukraine, in particular the alumni of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. Those teachers have thoroughly studied the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as other genocides; thus, with the beginning of the Russian war, they began to experience struggles they knew well from their own expertise.
News from occupied areas suggests that teachers are usually persecuted by Russian occupiers as agents of influence. In the temporarily occupied settlements, teachers suffer unimaginable pressure from the Russian invaders. That experience varies: from cooperation and persuasion to dismissal or abduction.
Lately, in conditions of uncertainty, evacuation, and refugee status, teachers––either voluntarily or under duress––have restored the educational process. Even in conditions of relative safety, the war brings pressure and lots of new challenges to working in education, content-wise and method-wise.