Over 50 students from Jewish communities across Ukraine took part in a Lo Tishkach seminar in Lviv in western Ukraine earlier this month. Participants presented their micro-projects for historical research and practical restoration work at Jewish burial sites in their local regions.
The students received lectures from experts in Ukrainian Jewish history as well as on how to structure budgets, plan projects and mobilise youth activists in their local communities.
During the event, Lo Tishkach survey teams led by Artem Fedorchuk, currently checking burial grounds in Transcarpathia, came to the seminar to impart their particular knowledge of Lo Tishkach’s work in Ukraine.
The final day of the seminar saw a trip for the students to the old Jewish cemetery in Busk where students learned the practical aspects of the surveys.
The seminar was the first in the second stage of educational seminars in Ukraine aimed at creating cadres of young leaders in Ukraine’s Jewish communities to protect the Jewish heritage of their regions and is part of an ongoing three-year project of the Lo Tishkach Foundation supported by the Genesis Philanthropy Group.
A second student seminar is set to be held in Crimea in mid-July with a national teacher-training seminar to be held in Lviv in mid-June.
