International Seminar

May 25 -30, 2007, Kiev, Ukraine

Kleinmann Family Foundation
European Union of Jewish Students

This seminar, organized by the European Union of Jewish Students and the Kleinmann Family Foundation, aimed to teach the young participants to become critical thinkers and active democratic citizens, who notice at an early stage when propaganda occurs and thus are able to react pro-actively against discrimination and possible forms of violence. The participants were encouraged to diffuse their newly acquired knowledge among their peers.

The seminar was set up around a multimedia tool designed by Naomi Kramer (Kleinmann Family Foundation). Starting from WWII propaganda, it explores how propaganda works, what the context and consequences are, and how to detect propaganda at an early stage.

The seminar also included expert speeches on xenophobia and antisemitism in Former Soviet Union countries, propaganda in Rwanda before the 1994 genocide and a guided tour to Kiev Holocaust Memorial sites.