The Humanist of the Year is awarded by The Rogatchi Foundation to the people who\u00a0contributed in unique and meaningful way into the cause of humanity in different areas of\u00a0arts, science and education.<\/p>\n
Film Director Saulius Ber\u017einis, is awarded with Humanist of the Year together with three other laureats. He is very-well known for his over 20 films on the history of Litvaks and Holocaust, founder of the Independent Holocaust Research Archive, in Vilnius, Lithuania, as it is stated in Foundation press release\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cfor his ongoing tireless and noble work of uncovering and<\/em>\u00a0restoring the truth about tragedies of the Holocaust, for his understanding and kindness<\/em>\u00a0towards the people he is bringing out of oblivion, for his essential contribution into the<\/em>\u00a0forthcoming The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex in the matter of donating to the<\/em>\u00a0new memorial his priceless archive for the benefits of the future generation\u201c.<\/em><\/p>\n Saulius Ber\u017einis will receive his Special Diploma for an \u201eOutstanding Contribution into the Collective Memory on Holocaust\u201c with an art work created specifically for him, called “Song of our Souls” at the ceremony at the beginning of the year 2019 in Vilnius.<\/p>\n Good Will Foundation is happy to congratulate film director with an award and is pleased to finance projects, like the documentary film, created by Saulius Ber\u017einis called \u201eMeine Vilne\u201c (project No. PER\/GVF-168\/2016), telling the story about the interwar unique cultural and spiritual life of Vilnius Jewry, it aims to foster society\u2018s ability to analyze the historical past critically, to perceive responsibly the importance of intercultural communication, as well as \u2013 the destructive consequences of antisemitism and xenophobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Humanist of the Year is awarded by The Rogatchi Foundation to the people who\u00a0contributed in unique and meaningful way into the cause of humanity in different areas of\u00a0arts, science … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}