On October 9, this year, students and teachers from 'Lucian Blaga' Secondary School, Bistrita, in Romania organised the Holocaust Memorial Day.
The Holocaust remains a unique phenomenon in the history of mankind, due to its brutality, intolerable cruelty, and the heartless of the mass murder. We have to remember and know the tragedy of so many crimes against Jews and other minorities, be it a religious minority or not. We need to remember the mischievous acts of the "death industry" in the years of the Second World War, and also we have to honour the heroism of those who have survived, for instance those from the ghetto in Warsaw.
This is one of the reasons why at the International conference from Stockholm in January 2000 was voted the commemoration of this tragedy in all European countries. In Romania, Holocaust Memorial Day is celebrated each year, on 9th October.
On such an occasion, "Lucian Blaga" Secondary School, Bistrita-Nasaud County Education Inspectorate, The Didactic Staff Centre, The Jewish Community from Bistrita and the County Museum set up an agenda of activities dedicated to the remembrance of Holocaust. The program started with a symposium entitled "The Holocaust Phenomenon", where Mr Fredi Deac (President of The Jewish Community from Bistrita), Mrs Aurelia Pop (history teacher at Lucian Blaga Secondary School and the promoter of this initiative) have presented their papers, together with the students Letitia Aruncutean, Roxana Catinean (VII C Class), and Andreea Oara and Manana Vlasin (VIII E Class). The history lesson reached its climax when Elena Pop and Simion Rosenberg, survivors from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, have presented their memories.
Next on the agenda was the documentary film "Snapshots from life" , directed by Virgil Muresan from Bistrita County Musem. All ended with the exhibition organised by the 7th and 8th graders students, together with the teachers Aurelia Pop, Monica Buboly, Aritina Susca and Monica Valean.
The remembrance of such a tragedy is both a moral duty and also an act of courage; the courage to remember and to study, no matter how disturbing this may be. The persecution of man, in any time and in any country, is intolerable and to take actions against it may represent the beginning of hope.
On such an occasion, "Lucian Blaga" Secondary School, Bistrita-Nasaud County Education Inspectorate, The Didactic Staff Centre, The Jewish Community from Bistrita and the County Museum set up an agenda of activities dedicated to the remembrance of Holocaust. The program started with a symposium entitled "The Holocaust Phenomenon", where Mr Fredi Deac (President of The Jewish Community from Bistrita), Mrs Aurelia Pop (history teacher at Lucian Blaga Secondary School and the promoter of this initiative) have presented their papers, together with the students Letitia Aruncutean, Roxana Catinean (VII C Class), and Andreea Oara and Manana Vlasin (VIII E Class). The history lesson reached its climax when Elena Pop and Simion Rosenberg, survivors from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, have presented their memories.
Next on the agenda was the documentary film "Snapshots from life" , directed by Virgil Muresan from Bistrita County Musem. All ended with the exhibition organised by the 7th and 8th graders students, together with the teachers Aurelia Pop, Monica Buboly, Aritina Susca and Monica Valean.
