On March 9, 2017 the seminar "Losses in History and Historical Perception" took place in the small Lithuanian town of Kėdainiai. It was organized jointly by the World Jewish Congress Yiddish Center, the International Commission for Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and the Regional Museum of Kėdainiai, Multicultural Centre.

Jews constituted about one third of Kėdainiai's population before the World War II. In Yiddish the town is called Keidan. All 3000 local Jews perished in the Holocaust.

The seminar, held in a former Kėdainiai synagogue, brought together about 30 teachers from different educational systems all over Lithuania. This event may be seen as a continuation of the seminar "Keeping historical memory", held on Feb. 2 in Kupiškis.

The opening speech was given by the International Commission chairman Ronaldas Račinskas. He was followed on the stage by WJC YC director Lev Milner, who briefly reviewed our activities.

Then WJC YC academic director Dr. Mordechai Yushkovsky provided two lectures: "Yiddish culture as a treasury of our collective national memory" and "Lithuania and Lithuanian Jews in the Yiddish literature".

The audience reacted very lively and energetically. Dr. Yushkovsky received many interesting questions, both orally and in writing. For example, the local schoolteacher Laima Ardavičiene got enthusiastic about life and work of the of the Vilnius ghetto poet Hirsh Glick and is planning to organize a school project dedicated to his memory.