During the Second World War, the Nazis sought to exterminate all European Jews. For the first time in history, industrial methods were used to mass exterminate the entire nation. Around six million people were killed, out of which 1,500,000 were children. The Holocaust – the mass extermination of the Jewish people – was also carried out in Lithuania. Between 1941 and 1944, almost the entire Jewish minority in Lithuania, which until then had been large, was exterminated: about 90-95% of the Jews in Lithuania were killed. During the Nazi occupation, in Kaunas Ninth Fort alone, approximately 50,000 people were murdered, with around 30,000 of them being Jews. 

The aim of the educational programme is to systematically introduce the unprecedented process of extermination in history and develop tolerance and openness to other peoples. The various educational activities deal with the Holocaust in different contexts. Participants have the opportunity to learn about Jewish culture, explore the motives of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and the stories of the Jewish rescuers and debate and reflect on moral, ethical and psychological issues.

The educational programme consists of four educational activities:

• JEWISH CULTURE AND ACHIEVEMENTS. Duration – 60 min.
• PUNISHMENT NO MERCY. Duration – 60 min.
• SAVE A LIFE – SAVE THE WORLD. Duration – 60 min.
• 1005B: ESCAPE. Duration – 60 min.