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Austria set for Shoah memorial
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Austrian President Thomas Klestil supports the establishment of an official day of Holocaust remembrance in A, In a weekend meeting with Klestil in Vienna, Avner Shalev, a Yad Vashem chairman, suggested that the time has come for Austria t
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Meanwhile, the first Holocaust seminar for Austrian educators started here Monday. Nineteen educators are taking part in the two-week seminar, which is being financed by the Austrian Ministry of Education.
The idea to train Austrian teachers in Israel was part of a cultural agreement signed between the two countries last year.
Every year about 500 educators from all over the world -- 80 percent of whom are not Jewish -- take part in courses at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies, which are taught in eight different languages.
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