Educational activities

DIIS, Holocaust and Genocide, initiates and organizes a wide range of educational activities that aims at raising awareness, generating knowledge and encouraging debate on genocide and related issues. The unit arranges educational seminars, produces educational material and conducts teacher training seminars.

The primary educational activity undertaken by the unit occurs in connection with the annual day of Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance in Denmark – Auschwitz Day, 27th of January. In the weeks leading up to this day, DIIS, Holocaust and Genocide, conducts a series of seminars for high school students and teachers across the country. At the seminars the dynamics of genocide and the challenges linked to preventing genocide are discussed. At the core of the seminar is a range of workshop sessions in which the students debate questions, problems and dilemmas related to different aspects of genocide. The workshop facilitators have all completed a training program on genocide education undertaken by the unit.

In addition to this, the unit organizes a program for teachers at Yad Vashem in Israel, as well as other seminars for students and educators. The unit’s educational activities also include the production of educational materials and the operation of two educational websites: www.folkedrab.dk and www.folkedrab.dk/UNG. The first website hosts an interactive computer game for educational purposes, launched in 2007. This educational resource is called “Genocide on Bantikka” and is purely fictional, but draws on inspiration from real life situations and case studies. The aim of the game is to present students to the various dilemmas and actors in genocides.
For more information about the annual Auschwitz Day in Denmark

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