Media-Release
January 2026
Rogatchi Foundation commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 with the international release of its new educational project, Ten Lessons in Humanity.
Ten Lessons In Humanity is a 15-minute special educational commemorative video-program for schools and universities and for the wide public. The program is a specially created educational tool for educators at various levels, and it also is applicable for special public events. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the acute problems of humanity which, as part of the existing today’s atmosphere in a global society, have been re-addressed to the time of WWII and Holocaust. It also underlines the necessity to understand how actual it has become today.
The project develops The Rogatchi Foundation’s special approach of combining visual art with unique and rare archival documentary footage in our concept to apply both knowledge and facts from one side, and art and emotions from another, in a special way of education and awareness. The project has been created in cooperation with the National Fund for the Victims of National-Socialism of the Republic of Austria.
The program is based on the unique rare archival material featuring a legendary Nazi-hunter and outstanding historical personality Simon Wiesenthal in his conversations with writer and film-maker Inna Rogatchi. Inna Rogatchi and her husband artist Michael Rogatchi were close friends and junior colleagues of Simon Wiesenthal for many years, and still are close friends with Wiesenthal’s family.
Inna Rogatchi is the author of an internationally renowned documentary The Lessons of Survival, a rare close-in portrait of Simon Wiesenthal. She is also working on the forthcoming book on Simon Wiesenthal, based on the Rogatchi Foundation extensive archive as the primary source for the book.
In the program, Simon Wiesenthal is addressing the audience today, directly, thus activating universal questions on humanity which have become acutely actual today, in the most personal way by the special and historically important figure with unique experience.
Artistically, the program is based on two art collections, In the Mirror of the Shoah, the oil paintings of Michael Rogatchi, and the Ghetto Waltz, the metaphorical fine art photography by Inna Rogatchi. The program is created in the way in which more graphic photography symbols are as if opening the questions posed in the program by Simon Wiesenthal, with his introduction into the themes which has become so actual today, 80 years after WWII and Holocaust, while meditative images from the paintings are concluding each episode, each question, and each lesson, getting a viewer into a deep and thoughtful reflections.
In this way, a multi-media approach of the program, including a rare archive documentary footage, personal communications by Simon Wiesenthal addressing us today, metaphorical fine art photography, and paintings unites all these aspects into one focused stream of quest. The quest and waking-up call on humanity today.
The Rogatchi Foundation cooperates in introducing and implementing this new educational artistic and archival video-program and material with our colleagues in Finland, Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the UK, the US, Australia, Israel, and the other countries.
The Rogatchi Foundation is available for providing a widened training and recommendations for educators at different levels ( schools, universities, lectures, symposiums, special public commemorative events), as well as guest lectures and participation in the Q & A sessions and special events.