600 high school students. 32 creations. And a question running through each of them: how to bear witness to the inexpressible? Yesterday, at the headquarters of the Île-de-France Region, the students gave their answer.
The Strasbourg Academy and the Shoah Memorial reinvent historical transmission to forge tomorrow’s citizens. A renewed partnership where scientific expertise meets educational commitment to fight against forgetting.
Can history be entrusted to the hands of the new generation? This is the challenge of the
Launched this Sunday in Paris, this European program brings together young people from five countries to transform the duty of remembrance into a living commitment. Between schools, historical sites and institutions, discover how these future ambassadors are about to take up the challenge of transmission.
Beyond teaching, a promise of memory.
Discover the meaning and scope of the historic agreement signed between the Academy of Clermont-Ferrand and the Shoah Memorial, a fundamental partnership for the education of tomorrow’s citizens.
During the school holidays, from December 20, 2025 to January 5, 2026, the educational team of the Shoah Memorial offers you a series of activities for children in Paris.
The Shoah Memorial and the UEJB joined forces with the Université Libre de Bruxelles for an essential evening of transmission. Discover the powerful impact of Lily Keller-Rosenberg’s testimony, which moved and brought together more than 200 people.
Thematic secondary training for secondary teachers
On Friday, November 7, 2025, the Shoah Memorial and the Aix-Marseille Academy renewed their partnership agreement. This aims to strengthen teacher training and educational workshops for students, by extending a commitment initiated in 2022.
The Shoah Memorial looks back on its Open Days (Drancy and Paris), moments of privileged exchanges with teachers.
Rendez-vous in Toulouse on November 5, 2025 at the Musée de la Résistance in Toulouse to decipher the theme of the upcoming National Resistance and Deportation Competition (CNRD) for teachers.
Faced with divergent historical narratives in Europe, the program "Shoah as a starting point" of the Shoah Memorial is an essential device. This pan-European network trains teachers to develop innovative teaching methods. The article notably details the recent session in Vilnius, which allowed Baltic professors to discuss local challenges of memory and teaching about the Shoah. Discover how history is transmitted on a continental scale.
How can Artificial Intelligence become an essential ally for the transmission of history, especially that of the Holocaust?
The Memorial invites you to a deep reflection on the opportunities and ethical issues of AI in education and memory, led by experts in technology and pedagogy.
The Shoah Memorial in Drancy welcomed the Prefect Julien Charles for a special visit. Discover the memorial tool that he was the first official to inaugurate: the innovative "Table of destinies".
On Monday 6 October, the Shoah Memorial and the Nice Academy renewed their partnership agreement.
The Academy of Corsica and the Shoah Memorial renew their essential partnership against racism and antisemitism. Discover how this convention strengthens the training of students through trips to memory (Auschwitz) and major educational actions in Corsica.
Discover the new 2025-2026 educational brochure proposed by the Shoah Memorial
On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, the foundation stone for the future Shoah Memorial Museum in Nice was laid, notably in the presence of Serge Klarsfeld and Mayor Christian Estrosi.
On Thursday, September 25 and Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the educational teams of the Shoah Memorial invite journalism, film, and photography schools to discover the exhibition "
The Shoah Memorial participated in the "La Fabrique de la Diplomatie" Forum on September 5 and 6, 2025, in Paris, with an exhibition on the genocide of the Tutsi.
The institution presented its actions in terms of memory, transmission of history and fight against racism and anti-Semitism.
Visiting the Shoah Memorial, Magnus Brunner paid tribute to the victims by exploring the sites of remembrance before concluding with a wreath deposit and the signing of the guest book.
The Memorial offers a unique experience for all those who wish to discover or rediscover its exhibitions: a YouTube playlist
Committed high school students, designated as Ambassadors of Memory, participated from January 25 to 27, 2025, in workshops, memorial visits, and moving exchanges with survivors, notably in Paris and Drancy.
Back in pictures on this 6th national meeting of the Ambassadors of Memory.
From July 5 to 10, 2025, the Shoah Memorial organized seminars for teachers to deepen the teaching of the Holocaust with the support of experts and educational visits.
On July 4, 2025, a national seminar brought together stakeholders from higher education to strengthen the fight against racism and antisemitism.
From 29 to 31 May 2025, the Wannsee Conference House and the Shoah Memorial are organizing a Franco-German dialogue as part of the "The Shoah as a starting point" program.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, the Shoah Memorial presents an educational kit based on a series of
Participate in a week of exchanges and reflection at the Shoah Memorial, with workshops, meetings and memory trails to better understand and fight against racism and antisemitism.
In March 2025, the Shoah Memorial recommits itself and offers free activities for school audiences.
Discover a unique program to raise awareness of the values of the Republic and the duty to remember, offered by the Shoah Memorial and the Île-de-France Region. Intended for educational actors, it includes training and a trip to Auschwitz to deepen the reflection. An essential initiative to pass on history and fight against discrimination.
Workshops, screenings, exceptional encounters, guided tours... discover the new 2024-2025 educational brochure of the Shoah Memorial
The educational teams of the Shoah Memorial welcome you and present the new 2024-2025 educational offer at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy.
Discover the theme of the CNRD for the year 2024-2025: "Liberate and Rebuild France (1943-1945)"
From June 6 to 13, 2024, on the occasion of the 30’s commemorations
From October 21 to 22, 2024, attend the Scientific Seminar: 80 years after the end of the camp: what is the status of research? And how to pass on this story? at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy
As part of the European framework of the "Shoah as a starting point" Memorial, the Shoah Memorial offers you a training session in Barcelona from 19 to 21 April 2024
During the school holidays, from 10 to 26 February 2024, the educational team of the Shoah Memorial offers a series of activities for children in Paris and Drancy.
The Shoah Memorial and Pass Culture are pleased to invite you to a guided tour on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 6:45 p.m.
On the occasion of the "Parisian Week against Racism and Anti-Semitism" and organized with the City of Paris, participate in the upcoming memory trails in Paris.
During the school holidays, the educational team of the Shoah Memorial offers various workshops adapted to the concerns and sensitivity of young audiences at the Paris and Drancy Shoah Memorial
For high school students
The educational teams of the Shoah Memorial welcome you and present the new 2023-2024 educational offer at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy.
Educational workshops, exhibitions, training sessions, guided tours... discover the 2023-2024 educational brochure of the Shoah Memorial
In partnership with the mahJ.
In partnership with the mahJ.
Back in images on the renewal of the agreement between the Rennes academy and the Shoah Memorial.
Back in images on the signing of the new agreement between the academies of Reims, Metz-Nancy and the Shoah Memorial.
Back in images on the signing of the partnership agreement with the Versailles academy.
Back in images on the visit of Pap Ndiaye, Minister of National Education and Youth, to the Shoah Memorial in Drancy.
Educational activities program from April 18 to 21, 2023
Screening-meeting, cinema, theater play, testimonies, workshops and guided tours ... discover the new program of educational activities for the week against racism and antisemitism.
Take part in our next memory trips to Auschwitz in January and March 2026.
In January 2023, discover our upcoming teacher training programs.
Visit the new exhibition "Spirou in the Turmoil of the Shoah" during the school holidays.
Free admission, upon registration.
For families (children from 10 years old)
Unpublished! Take part in the exceptional testimonies of two survivors of the genocide of the Tutsi
Participate in our training day on the theme of CNRD 2022-2023
for students from Third to Final
Take part in the training course for teachers of German and professors in charge of art history/ the Paris academy
Workshops, screenings, meetings, visits ... discover the program of activities offered by the educational teams of the Shoah Memorial for the All Saints' Day holidays.
2022-2023
Discover the new 2022-2023 educational offer for the Shoah Memorial of Paris and Drancy
See you on Monday, September 12 at 7 p.m. live on
As part of the European Heritage Days
In collaboration with the MAHJ
As part of the summer university of the Shoah Memorial
Free admission, upon registration.
Discover the new educational web series of the Shoah Memorial, "Histoire(s) en série".
Since 2003, this journal, solely devoted to the Shoah, has been produced by the Conseil Régional d'Île-de-France in collaboration with the Mémorial de la Shoah which, drawing on its extensive documentary collection, provides the texts and photos that make up the journal.
visit, workshop, screenings, participate with your children in the activities of the Shoah Memorial during the spring school holidays
On the occasion of the week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism, discover the educational activities of the Memorial
from March 28 to 29, 2022
During school holidays, the Shoah Memorial and the Liberation Museum of Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin offer a program of linked visits on the resistance movements in Paris during the Second World War.
A cultural journey to live in family from 10 to 110 years.
As part of the European Heritage Days on Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, September 19, 2021
Raid on the green note of May 14, 1941
Educational activity
As part of the week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism, four students from the school group of L'Assomption in Bondy met Yvette Lévy at the Drancy Memorial and conducted a long interview with her.
Online educational conference:
Family tour of the Jewish Marsh throughout the month of March 2021.
Partnership between the Shoah Memorial,
On the occasion of the international day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, January 27, 2021, we offer you two exceptional films.
commemorative events for educational purposes
around January 27, 2021
Pedagogy
On the occasion of the commemoration of the discovery of the camps on January 27, 1945,
If you are unable to go to the Memorial, our teaching staff can arrange offers at your school in Île-de-France.
New awareness campaign of the Memorial: fight against disinformation of children on the internet
November 19 and November 27, 2020, participate in two free online educational conferences.
In partnership with the Hauts-de-Seine department
The Wannsee Conference House and the Shoah Memorial organize on 10, 14, 16 and 17 December an online training.
Since 2018, the Shoah Memorial has been committed to an innovative path of success at the Clermont-Ferrand Academy, the "Lycée de Tous les Talents".
Robert Badinter addressed the students this morning: "Let’s salute Samuel Paty, hero of secularism".
One-time screening this Thursday, July 16, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the film "A Bag of Marbles" by Christian Duguay (2017)
From 12 to 19 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the film "Les Gamins de Ménilmontant" by Antarès Bassis and Pascal Auffray (2020)
From 5 to 12 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the film "Edda Maillet, lehaim, à la vie" by Claude Bochurberg
From 28 to 5 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the film "Simone Veil, a French story" by David Teboul
From 21 to 28 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the documentary film "A kinderblock in Birkenau" by Chochana Boukhobza (2020)
From 14 to 21 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the film "Elle s'appelait Sarah" by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (2010)
The Shoah Memorial reopens its doors on Sunday, June 14, 2020!
From May 31 to June 7, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the documentary film "The Origin of Violence" by Elie Chouraqui (2015)
From May 27 to June 4, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or rewatch the documentary film "Chichinette, my spy life" by Nicola Hens (2019)
From May 24 to June 21, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch the documentary film "Betty Marcusfeld" by Martine Bouquin (2014)
The Shoah Memorial invites you to follow us on our Instagram account and our YouTube page.
From 17 to 24 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch the documentary film "I will return" by Jean Barrat.
From 10 to 23 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch the documentary film "Nous ne n'irons plus à Varsovie" by Gérard Alle and Sylvain Bouttet
For one week, from 3 to 9 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or rewatch the documentary film "Nazi concentration camps"
A history teacher from the Lycée Léon-Blum in Créteil, decided to run the National Competition of Resistance and Deportation (
From 18 May to 15 June, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or watch again the documentary film "La Visite" by Marc Grandsard.
The life of high school student Baptiste Antignani, who had felt nothing during the visit to the Auschwitz camp with his class, was turned upside down by his meeting with Denise Holstein. He made a film,
Alongside teachers and parents, the Memorial remains mobilized to ensure educational continuity and make its resources accessible to as many people as possible.
By placing civic and citizen training at the heart of its project, and by weaving ever more partnerships with local communities in order to open up to a wider school audience, the Shoah Memorial reaffirms loudly and clearly its mission of teaching and education.
Discover the 2019-2020 educational brochure. As part of the new high school programs (Second and First), the Shoah Memorial offers a new educational offer.
The Observatory of European Memories (Eurom), the association Mémoshoa and the Shoah Memorial organized in Lisbon on 25 and 26 April the second educational meetings for 40 teachers from the Iberian peninsula.
The Shoah Memorial, the Albanian association of history teachers, the Memorial of the Jews of Macedonia and the Ministry of Education of Serbia organized from 26 to 28 March 2019 in Skopje, the first educational meetings bringing together 45 teachers from the three countries.
On February 12, 2019, Charline Avenel, rector of the Versailles Academy met with Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, for the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Memorial and the academy, which includes the training of students and teachers as well as the training of managers, a novelty.
The first meeting of the network of European coordinators engaged in transnational trainings within the program "Shoah as a starting point" took place on 11 January 2019 in Belgrade.
The Shoah Memorial, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia organized from 8 to 10 January in the premises of the French Institute in Belgrade the 5th educational meetings for 45 teachers Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian
The Shoah Memorial, the European Memory Observatory EUROM and the association Memoshoah organized at the University of Barcelona the first regional meeting between Spanish and Portuguese teachers on 15 and 16 November 2018.
The University of
The second Bulgarian-Macedonian educational meeting took place in Sofia from 12 to 14 September 2018, then in Zagreb from 2 to 4 October 2018.
The Shoah Memorial is organizing, in partnership with the Polish Center for the Development of Education (ORE), a Franco-Polish pedagogical workshop to be held from 21 to 25 October 2018 at the manor of Sulejowek, near Warsaw.
In 2018 and 2019, the 75th anniversary of the departure of the convoys from 1943 and 1944, students can participate in these ceremonies as a continuation of the educational work carried out in class.
There will be discussions about new workshops, new courses, and new training programs for teachers at our various sites, as well as outside the building. With, in the background, ever more established partnerships with cultural and museum institutions but also with local communities...
For the first time, Croatian, Slovenian and Italian teachers came together under the aegis of the Shoah Memorial, in order to discuss the genocidal policies against Jewish communities and the difficult way out of the war in the northern Adriatic, which continues to fuel tensions in this region.
The Shoah Memorial intervened for the first time in Belarus. This training seminar for 40 local teachers was organized in partnership with the BWI Historical Workshop.
The Shoah Memorial and the Agency for French Education Abroad organized a seminar in Dakar (Senegal) on 11 and 12 April 2018 for all history teachers from West Africa teaching in the French system.
At the request of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the Shoah Memorial intervened for 3 days in Braga from 5 to 7 April 2018 for 30 teachers from northern Portugal.
On the occasion of the exhibition
As part of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, several events took place at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy on 25 and 26 January 2018. Discover these moments in pictures.
The third edition of the Italian University organized by the Shoah Memorial in Berlin took place from 2 to 7 December 2017, with 26 Italian history professors attending on the theme: Rethinking and teaching the history of Nazism.
For the first time, the Ministries of Education of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have cooperated directly in a regional partnership initiated and supported by the Shoah Memorial.
A training course, intended for institutions in Central Italy and bringing together Italian and French speakers, was held in Cattolica from 8 to 11 November 2017.
From 20 to 23 September 2017, the Shoah Memorial and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia organized a training focused on mass atrocities in the Balkans in Nis, southern Serbia for 40 teachers.
On Thursday 12 October 2017, the Shoah Memorial, the Poitiers Academy, the Higher School of Teaching and Education (ESPE) and the University of Poitiers signed an agreement.
The Shoah Memorial and the Portuguese Ministry of Education signed a framework partnership agreement on Tuesday 19 September 2017.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017, Bernard Beignier, Rector of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur academic region, Rector of the Marseille academy, Chancellor of the universities, Emmanuel Ethis, Rector of the Nice academy, Chancellor of the universities, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, have signed a partnership agreement aimed at enabling many national education personnel to be specifically trained in teaching the history of the Holocaust and the genocides of the 20th century.
The Shoah Memorial organized in Skopje, from 29 August to 2 September 2017, a transnational seminar bringing together 40 Macedonian and Bulgarian teachers, in cooperation with the Memorial of the Jews of Macedonia, the ministries of education of both countries involved, the association of history teachers from Bulgaria and the Macedonian ministry of foreign affairs.
Transmitting the history of the Shoah is the essential mission of the Memorial. To carry it out, our institution intends to act with and alongside the professors, whose role is to teach history but also, and above all, to awaken consciences.
The Shoah Memorial and the Ministry of Education of Latvia organized from 4 to 6 July 2017 at the House of Europe in Riga a training seminar for 50 teachers.
A partnership agreement was signed in Bordeaux on Thursday 29 June 2017 by Olivier DUGRIP, rector of the Academy of Bordeaux, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial.
Nearly 40 students in education sciences and young researchers have completed the training "Genocides et atrocités de masse". Educational and pedagogical tools on history and memories" co-organized by the European Observatory of Memories of the Solidarity UB Foundation, the Shoah Memorial and
From 25 to 28 April, a training seminar was held at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in Sarajevo for teachers on the mass crimes committed during the Second World War in the Balkans.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the off-site workshop campaign at the Shoah Memorial in the Toulouse Academy, on April 27, 2017, a partnership agreement was signed between the Shoah Memorial, the Toulouse Academy and the partner mutuals. (MGEN, Casden, MAE Solidarité, MAIF and ASL) to support these workshops in the academy.
The Shoah Memorial has just completed its first training operation in Greece, in support of an initiative by the Greek Ministry of Education and the Jewish Museum in Athens.
The result of a partnership between the Polish Education Agency and the Shoah Memorial, these meetings brought together 40 teachers.
The Memorial signs agreements with the Academies of Nice and Montpellier in January and February 2017.
At a time when school curricula encourage greater awareness of civic engagement and the challenges of the Resistance, it became necessary to provide teachers with an up-to-date summary of knowledge from this period.
The Shoah Memorial organized a seminar in Milan on 24 November 2016, in partnership with the Associazione Gunnies della Shoah and the Memoriale della Shoah Binario31 of Milan.
The Shoah Memorial organized two training seminars for teachers in Belgrade (Serbia) and then in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) in October 2016.
On Monday, September 19, 2016,
The Shoah Memorial presents its 2016-2017 educational offer during two Open Doors afternoons at its two sites.
As part of an agreement signed between the Shoah Memorial and the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, many actions will be implemented at the Drancy Memorial from the start of the 2016 school year.
For more than 10 years, the Memorial has been involved in education not only by offering training sessions to teachers, but also educational activities for students, adapted to their age and sensitivity.
The Shoah Memorial and Yad Vashem have joined forces to offer the first joint training for teachers from the three Baltic countries to the Ministries of Education in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Around numerous conferences, screenings and workshops, issues related to the teaching of the Holocaust are discussed with the best European specialists. From 6 to 8 July for school teachers, and from 3 to 8 July for middle and high school teachers.
From 29 to 31 March, a training seminar is held in Lisbon, in partnership with Memoshoa (association for the memory and teaching of the Shoah in Portugal) on the theme "Teaching the history of the Shoah and genocides".
The Shoah Memorial conducted a two-day seminar in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, for an audience of ministerial officials on the integration of genocides and mass killings into the education system. Objective: to integrate the teaching of the Shoah.
The Shoah Memorial conducted in Serbia from 20 to 22 February 2016 its first initial training action by offering students from Belgrade two days dedicated to the Holocaust and mass crimes in the Balkans.
The Shoah Memorial organizes on 26 and 27 March 2016 educational conferences to allow teachers to exchange on pedagogical practices related to the history of the Shoah in the face of teaching challenges.
