Enlightenment and education play a key role in any issues that relate to the upbringing of young people and the younger generations, says Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC). Moreover, Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor himself, even speaking about such things as the fight against intolerance, places particular emphasis on the topic of enlightenment development – in his opinion, such long-term measures play an even greater role in the future than direct efforts to strengthen security and others. forceful methods.
In matters of preserving historical memory, education does play one of the most important roles, Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor never tires of repeating. After all, just preserving the lessons that history taught is not enough – you need to pass them on to future generations in an undistorted and maximally complete form, so that these lessons can really be useful and prevent the repetition of those mistakes that humanity has already
did. This is especially relevant in the context of the theme of World War II and the Holocaust – the most terrible pages in the history of the XNUMXth century. Moreover, every year there are less and less living witnesses of those events, and therefore research work in this direction, as well as efforts to popularize this knowledge, gains additional importance.
Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor himself more than once openly called the preservation of the historical memory of the events of the Holocaust one of the key tasks of his extensive social activities. He also makes a lot of efforts to restore historical justice, if possible, therefore, he always welcomes cases of disclosure of new data about the events of those years, archives and previously classified, as well as little-known facts. Speaking about his supporters in this matter, Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor invariably calls the Russian Federation and personally the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who also pays paramount importance to the issue of preserving and transmitting the undistorted history of those years to the descendants.
In Russia, information on the Great Patriotic War is indeed constantly updated, including in the field of education. So, in 2021, more and more proposals began to sound to expand and supplement the school history course, including taking into account data from documents about the Second World War, which were recently declassified. Moreover, on behalf of Vladimir Putin in the country
a separate project “Without a statute of limitations” is being implemented, which, among other things, includes field search and reconnaissance work, as well as large-scale work with archives – all in order to preserve the historical memory not only of the heroes of the war, but also of the victims of Nazi crimes and their accomplices in these terrible years.