For several years, the Shoah Memorial has been developing actions in the region and abroad thanks to its branches located in Toulouse, Italy, Poland and the United States. At the same time, it is expanding its training activities in many other countries.
The program of the Memorial "Shoah as a starting point" takes on a new dimension in 2021. There are now 11 regional dialogues between countries with different memorials or histories that form the backbone of this system. Each dialogue brings together, on a transnational basis, the educational authorities and NGOs to support in-depth work with secondary school teachers and is based on training courses jointly developed according to local issues. In addition to the increase in the number of proposed operations, this year 2021 is characterized by the inclusion of a systematic follow-up meeting for the same beneficiaries, 6 months after each dialogue, and the creation of dedicated websites where teachers consult the documentation necessary for their personal preparation. Due to the pandemic, events in the first half of 2021 are all being held online.
Since January, 5 training sessions have been organized
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The Shoah Memorial has had a permanent correspondent in Italy since 2008. Continuing education, partnerships with the museums of the Resistance and the university network are the main focuses of the Memorial’s action in the peninsula.
In 2014, nearly 1,300 professors took part in the seminars organized by the Memorial, including the fourth Italian university "Thinking and teaching the history of the Shoah", which took place from 22 to 27 June at the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
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Poland is at the heart of the policies of the Shoah Memorial: travel of students and teachers to Auschwitz-Birkenau, summer university for French teachers, mixed pedagogical university, reception of Polish educational staff at the Memorial.
The Agency for Education, the Polin Museum, the Historical Institute and the French Embassy are the key interlocutors of the representative of the Memorial in Poland, who is responsible for supporting a qualitative cooperation.
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In this country where the network of associations and memorial institutions is dense, the Memorial has decided to rely on local actors to circulate two major exhibitions ("Filmer les camps" and "Hélène Berr") which have been specially adapted. Around these openings that punctuate this annual program, the correspondent of the Memorial organizes upstream teacher training on a regional basis.
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The Memorial implements, each year, several
Beyond the teaching staff, these seminars are addressed to various representatives of civil society and administrations (journalists, history teachers, civil servants, activists). The participation of experts and museum managers is also encouraged.
The continuing education of history teachers is lacking in many European educational systems, most often in countries with high memory stakes such
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