Last November, 29 educators from Macau, Shanghai, Shangdong, Nanjing and Kaifeng, Xian, and Zhengzhou came to Israel to take part in the second Chinese seminar for educators at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies.

MA and Doctoral students, university department heads and professors as well as participants from the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum, all came for in-depth study of the Holocaust and how to teach it in the classroom. The group also had an opportunity to tour the country and experience a singular communal Shabbat.

“By participating in the seminar, I deeply recognise the importance of Holocaust education. I think the essential goal of Holocaust education is ‘to remember the past, to live the present, to trust the future,” commented Abba Kovner one of the Chinese educators.