Between 2018 and 2023, the Tom Lantos Institute conducted a training programme that focused on the Roma Holocaust. The programme is based on the topics and chapters of the textbook If I run, they shoot me dead – If I stop, they beat me to death. It aims to provide teachers with tools to introduce the concepts of freedom, fundamental rights, community responsibility and solidarity in their classrooms by teaching about the Roma Holocaust. The training programme “Teacher training about freedom, community responsibility, and solidarity in relation to the Roma Holocaust” was officially accredited by the Educational Authority in May 2019.

The course consists of a two-day training event followed by an experience-sharing workshop during which teachers share their reflections on the pilot teaching sessions and their classroom experiences.