"Liberate and Rebuild France (1943-1945)"

Supporting students for the National Resistance and Deportation Competition for the 2024-2025 school year, "Freeing and Rebuilding France (1943-1945)," will be a highlight of the educational activities at the Shoah Memorial.   Workshops and exploratory visits have been rethought or created in the light of the new topic.

Our event programming around historians and renowned historians will enrich the existing offer presented in this brochure. The archives of our Foundation will be mobilized to support the work that students will carry out with their teachers: administrative, personal, iconographic, documentary documents, works of fiction, etc. The commitment of the Jewish Resistance around the Jewish Army and the Israeli Scouts and Girl Scouts of France to fight against the Occupier and the regime’s policy of collaboration. from Vichy will take its place; the role of foreigners in the Resistance in support of the exhibition Foreigners in the Resistance in France presented at the Shoah Memorial in Paris will also be highlighted.

The most diverse acts for the liberation of the territory will be associated with a reflection on the need to rebuild France at the end of the Second World War: the liberation of concentration camps, the return of deportees, the creation of children’s homes, the mobilization of Jewish organizations to reclaim their place in the nation and prepare for a better future after four years of war and persecution.

Some major figures from the Jewish worlds will contribute to a true incarnation of the subject. Each proposed entry may be the subject of a dialogue with educational teams in order to integrate the local dimension of these issues. More than ever, the Shoah Memorial is strongly mobilized, at your side, for an enlightened historical knowledge and the success of the greatest number.