5 May 2017
Ambassadors of Poland and Israel Visited UG to Commemorate the Jewish People Who Suffered During Holocaust in Warsaw
On May 5, 2017 Department of History, School of Humanities, the University of Georgiahosted distinguished guests: the Ambassador of Poland to Georgia - HE Mariusz Maszkiewicz; the Ambassador of Israel to Georgia - HE Shabtai Tsur, and Itsik Moshe - the founder and chair of Israeli House.
Department of History organized a special event: ”We remember Warsaw” dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during WWII (April 19- May 16, 1943), and to receive the Visegrad University Studies Grant (International Visegrad Fund), for the project: “The Holocaust and Genocide in the Visegrad Group Countries”. This new course will be integrated in BA program in History.
Students and professors of the University of Georgia, also, high schools students, principals and history teachers from Tbilisi high schools #45, 52, 81, 1st Experimental, “Albioni”, and “UG school”participated in this event. High school students got a booklet “The "Georgian Schindlers” from Mr. Moshe.
White balloons have been released into the sky by the ambassadors and high school students to mark a memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and holocaust victims.
On the same day “The Garden of Europe” was opened at the University of Georgia. It was dedicated tothe Europe Day. The Ambassadors of Poland and Israel to Georgia, Mr. Moshe, and the presidents of the the University of Georgia: Giuli Alasania and Manana Sanadze planted titled roses in “The Garden of Europe”.
Please, see related links:
https://www.facebook.com/IsraelinGeorgia/posts/1358149320918523
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJ8yKkZfkU
