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Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Tuesday signed an MoU with the churches of Cyprus and Greece, in addition to the Jewish community in Greece and the Jewish Museum there.<\/p>\nEducation Minister Athena Michaelidou on Tuesday signed an MoU with the churches of Cyprus and Greece, in addition to the Jewish community in Greece and the Jewish Museum there.<\/p>\n
The MoU seeks to strengthen ties and undertake further actions to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and to combat antisemitism.\u201cI cannot but express my satisfaction for the strengthening of the ties between the parties and for the further undertaking of actions aimed at preserving the memory of the Holocaust and combating anti-Semitism, achieved through the signing of this Memorandum,\u201d she said.According to Michaelidou, Cyprus participates as an observer in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to contribute to the strengthening of efforts to promote and encourage actions for the study and preservation of this memory.\u201cThe ministry has in recent years established an annual competition in secondary education on Holocaust remembrance, while in cooperation with the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, touring exhibitions on the Holocaust are hosted in schools in Cyprus.\u201dShe added a new exhibition entitled \u2018Stars without Heaven \u2013 Children in the Holocaust\u2019 will be added to the existing ones, on the initiative of the relevant History Curriculum Group.Commenting further on the training received by teachers, she said that a team of teachers from Cyprus visits the Yad Vashem Centre in Israel every two years for training on the teaching of the Holocaust, while the ministry also cooperates with other Holocaust teaching centres such as the Musee de la Shoah.\u201cAn additional activity of particular interest, which is of great emotion to students and teachers, is the hosting of Holocaust survivors on school grounds,\u201d she added.She said that through cooperation of religions they can promote coexistence for a better future for children.Follow the
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Education Minister Athena Michaelidou signed an MoU with the churches of Cyprus and Greece, the Jewish community in Greece, and the Jewish Museum to strengthen ties and combat antisemitism. The MoU aims at preserving the memory of the Holocaust. Cyprus participates as an observer in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and has established an annual competition on Holocaust remembrance in secondary education. The ministry cooperates with the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre and hosts touring exhibitions on the Holocaust in schools. A new exhibition titled \u2018Stars without Heaven \u2013 Children in the Holocaust\u2019 will be introduced. Teachers from Cyprus receive training on teaching the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Centre in Israel every two years and cooperate with other Holocaust teaching centres. Hosting Holocaust survivors in schools is an activity aimed at promoting coexistence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[969,132,233,426,3,405,950,250,747,658,899,187,299,875,433,133,18],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-antisemitism","tag-athena-michaelidou","tag-church","tag-competition","tag-cyprus","tag-education","tag-education-minister","tag-google","tag-greece","tag-history","tag-interest","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-museum","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n