Today, the winners of the 5th
This prize allows to commemorate the memory of Ilan Halimi, victim of anti-Semitic barbarism, and also to highlight projects that fight against racist and anti-Semitic prejudices and that are committed to fraternity. Thank you to Élise Fajgeles, Secretary General of DILCRAH and the young "bearers of memory".
About the Ilan Halimi Award:
The Ilan Halimi Prize was created in 2018 by the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH) as part of the national plan to combat racism and anti-Semitism 2018-2020. He is named after Ilan Halimi, a young Frenchman kidnapped, kidnapped and tortured, who died of anti-Semitic hatred.
Ilan Halimi was 23 years old, he is the one who could be our brother, our cousin, our friend. This award aims to reward those who mobilize and, through their creativity and inventiveness, are committed to reducing prejudice.
GRAND PRIX
"Dans leurs Yeux", School Center of the minor ward of the penitentiary center of Liancourt (Oise)
The project was created in response to a series of racist altercations between inmates of the juvenile unit of the prison by providing them with historical knowledge on the creation of stereotypes. These young inmates designed an interactive exhibition of eight posters, a questionnaire and a quiz on racist and anti-Semitic prejudice. The visual realization of the project was entrusted to a class from a professional high school in graphic design in the Oise department, as part of work on prejudice. The exhibition, questionnaire and quiz were then submitted to an elementary class as a gateway to a more comprehensive project on harassment. The jury was touched by the original involvement of young inmates that responds to a reality: racism in prison. He saw in this project a great pedagogical and preventive value and the possibility of developing the model (quizzes, posters). The jury was particularly sensitive to the plurality of audiences involved, to the collective work between these audiences that normally do not cross.
JURY PRIZE
"Les Xénophobes Anonymes", Simone Veil Social Center in Angerville (Essone)
A group of 5 young people from the social center created an audio-visual project around the concept of cohesion. This fictional short film is inspired by the concept of Alcoholics Anonymous, and adapted to xenophobia. A session of Xenophobes Anonymous is staged during which two pieces of rap/slam, composed by young people are performed. The jury appreciated the very original, playful and clever format, which intertwines music, dark humor and pedagogy as well as the high quality of the texts, the production of the video and the involvement of the two young rappers.
"Petit musée pour la paix", École élémentaire Joliot-Curie in Bagneux (Hauts de Seine)
Students from a CM1/2 class created a "small museum for peace", where about thirty works they have made are exhibited. This museum, located in the heart of the city of Pierre Plate, where Ilan Halimi was kidnapped, addresses issues of discrimination, racism and antisemitism throughout history. The visits – by parents of students, residents of the city, students from the nearby middle school, and all classes in the elementary school – were provided by the students themselves, taking on the role of exhibition lecturers. The jury was touched by the process of transmission carried out by the young generation in this district of La Pierre Plate, traumatized by the drama of Ilan Halimi.
"Around the memory of Ilan Halimi", Jean Guéhenno High School in Saint-Amand –Montrond (Cher)
The project, led by 7 students in their final year at the vocational high school, focuses on the memory of Ilan Halimi and the history of the Holocaust in their territory. Screening-debate of the film "24 days", visits to places of remembrance of the 2nd World War on their territory (discovery of the wells of Guerry where 34 Jews were thrown alive), door-to-door in a priority area of the city (QPV) In order to raise awareness among residents about anti-Semitism and the story of Ilan Halimi, publication of a special issue of the high school newspaper on this theme. The culmination of the project, students obtained from the city’s mayor the name of a square in the name of Ilan, which was inaugurated on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, during a public ceremony. The public appreciated the many educational situations that prove that the project is part of a long time and in the territory. The involvement of these young people in professional high schools and rural areas, particularly for the nomination of the square, is very touching.
