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From February 7 to 10 the seminar "Tolerance - the lessons
of Holocaust" will be held in Almaty. Teachers from Almaty secondary schools
are invited to participate in the new project of the Association of Jewish National
Organizations "Mitsva" and Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. One of the
main tasks of the seminar is to teach teenagers to protect human rights and
to protest against any form of discrimination.
The urgency of the subject of tolerance and nonviolence is determined
by actual life. After September 11, 2001 everybody felt how real and global
the threat of terrorism was.
The most effective means to prevent intolerance is to bring up indulgence
and tolerance in people.
The aim of "Tolerance - the lessons of Holocaust" program is to bring
up responsible citizens, open to religions, traditions, and culture of other
nations, able to value freedom, respect human dignity, prevent conflicts, or
solve them in nonviolent way.
The project will give schoolchildren information of sources, development
and consequences of genocides, including Holocaust, and will teach them the
bases of ethnic and religious tolerance, responsibility and charity.
Often the most unprotected groups - children - become victims of intolerance.
It is in children and teenagers' environment that negative stereotypes and prejudices
develop. Representatives of other nationalities often suffer ostracism.
That is why it is our task to make schoolchildren (and not only
them) feel respect towards themselves and representatives of other nations.
Ludmila Braginskaya
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