Skopje, 9 November 2021 (MIA) – Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska took part in an antisemitism symposium in the Polish city of Krakow, organized by the European Jewish Association. At the symposium, she said that every generation should strive towards achieving true ethical, moral and human values, and to recognize negative social phenomena such as discrimination, hate and intolerance, so that Holocaust-like catastrophes may be avoided in the future. “It takes development of the individual and the collective awareness in each society. We, the politicians and statespersons, can contribute a lot to the achievement of these goals. The traumas and crimes from the past should be a lesson for the present. We should strive towards creating a better society for all, one that will have no tragedies, or at least have them down to an absolute minimum. We can achieve this through the educational system, because school is the true place where positive values are taught and developed from a young age. That’s the direction in which we’re developing new curriculums and study materials that we’re introducing in stages in North Macedonia, which teach equality, inclusivity, multiculturalism, tolerance, respecting rights and differences,” said Carovska. The Minister pointed out that antisemitism is not just a lesson in a schoolbook in the Macedonian educational system. This subject is not only taught through one lesson spread across a page or two, it’s a topic that’s being systematically worked through on multiple levels in multiple grades, said the Ministry of Education and Science. “Extracurricular activities are also being organized. The students visit the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of North Macedonia in Skopje, which sensitizes the Holocaust question, educating young people so that nothing like it ever happens again,” Carovska said at the symposium, which brought together ministers and state secretaries for education of Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, France, as well as the presidents of the parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. After the Krakow symposium ended, the participants visited Auschwitz, where they paid respects to the victims of the Holocaust, according to the Ministry of Education and Science. dk/ba/