The Centre for Lifelong Learning of the VŠPJ provided not only U3V students with extraordinary lectures

On March 13, 2024, Mgr. Kateřina Beerová, Program Officer for Education at the Jewish Museum in Prague, who expanded the knowledge of Judaism - a monotheistic religion that has a large number of specific traditions and customs. Mgr. In the second part of the lecture, she dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism in the present time, human stereotypes and outlined the practical orientation of searching for anti-Semitic incidents on the Internet.

The following week, on March 19, 2024, a second interesting lecture was held in the Historical Auditorium of the University of Applied Sciences, for more than 60 attendees (not only from the Genealogy course). Mgr. Lukáš Lexa, Ph.D., historian-curator of the Moravian Museum in Brno, specializing in the field of the armed forces and war conflicts of 1914-1945, presented a lecture "Following the footsteps of ancestors in uniform", which was intended primarily for those interested in the topic of military service of previous generations. During the lecture, the audience was introduced to key sources for obtaining information about the fate of ancestors in the World Wars and their service in the armed forces in the first half of the 20th century. Dr. Lexa provided the audience with practical information for finding military records in archives and presented samples of selected military documents. The lecture was well received by the audience.

The organizational team of the Centre for Lifelong Learning of the University of Applied Sciences thanks its main organizers - the lecturer of the Judaic Studies course Mgr. Petra Čejka and Ing. Lenka Lízalová, Ph.D., who continues the family tradition and took over from her parents as the main lecturer of the Genealogy course, which has been offered to seniors at the VŠPJ since 2010.

Text by Marie Marek, Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at VŠPJ