Artistic and cultural events for students
The Shoah Memorial offers students from 9th to 12th grade a unique program around theater, music and cinema. It is accompanied by exceptional meetings. Each event will be preceded by a guided tour or a workshop.
OCTOBER 2025
THINK THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY – CNRD
Monday, October 13, 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For the students of Terminale
Themes: From the end of the war to the Nuremberg trials.
Activity: Meeting with Annette Wieviorka, historian.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
NOVEMBER 2025
THINK THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY – CNRD
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
For the students of Terminale
Themes: On the occasion of the publication of the notebooks by Alter Fajnzylberg, an unpublished testimony from a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Activity: Meeting with Alban Perrin and Roger Fajnzylberg, authors.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
DRAMATIZED READING OF IDISS
On the occasion of the Pantheonization of Robert Badinter
Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Fate of the Badinter family, Jewish life in Europe and France before and during the war, Shoah.
Activity: Reading by Maud Landau, actress, of excerpts from Idiss, Fayard, 2018.
The reading is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
DECEMBER 2025
THINK THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
For the students of Terminale
Themes: On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Jacques Chirac’s speech on the roundup of the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the publication of the book Vel d'hiv, histoire et portée d'un discours by Hubert Strouk (Hermann, 2025).
Activity: Meeting with Hubert Strouk, historian.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
PROJECTION-MEETING
ALFRED NAKACHE, A FRENCH CHAMPION – CNRD
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For students in 9th and 12th grade
Documentary by Vincent Gonon and Xavier Sayanof, France, 90 min, 2025.
Themes: Memory of the Jews of Algeria and 85 years after the repeal of the Cremieux decree, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Activity: Exchanges with the directors and Hubert Strouk, historian.
The screening-meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
PROJECTION-MEETING
THE IRREPARABLE, THE SPEECH OF THE VEL D'HIV OF 1995
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
For the students of Terminale
Documentary by Dominique Missika, Caroline du Saint and Thomas Zribi, France, 52 min, 2025.
Themes: On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Jacques Chirac’s speech on the roundup of the Vélodrome d'Hiver.
Activity: Exchanges with the directors.
The screening-meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
JANUARY 2026
On the occasion of the commemorations of January 27 and the discovery of the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center
EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY – CNRD
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Ginette Kolinka, survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
PROJECTION- MEETING
THE LABYRINTH OF SILENCE
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Film by Giulio Ricciarelli, 120 min, Germany, 2014.
Theme: Second trial of Auschwitz in Frankfurt.
Activity: Exchanges with Tal Bruttmann, historian.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
THINK THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY
Friday, January 23, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For the students of Terminale
Themes: Living and surviving after the Holocaust, the return of deportees
Activity: Meeting with Olivier Lalieu, historian.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
CONCERT
THE MARX SISTERS – CNRD
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Theme: Discovery of Yiddish culture through the repertoire of klezmer music.
Activity: Exchanges with the musicians after the concert.
The concert is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
FEBRUARY 2026
PROJECTION-MEETING
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, THE NAZIS FACING THEIR CRIME
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Documentary by Christian Delage, France, 90 min, 2006.
Activity: Exchanges with the director.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
SIMONE VEIL AND HER SISTERS BORN JACOB – CNRD
Around the exhibition 'Simone Veil. My Sisters and Me' / Screening-meeting
Thursday, February 5, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Documentary by David Teboul, France, 90 min, 2022.
Themes: Life of Simone Veil in France, surviving deportation, witnessing.
Activity: Exchanges with David Teboul (subject), director and curator of the temporary exhibition.
The screening is preceded by a guided tour in the exhibition Simone Veil. My sisters and I.
PROJECTION-MEETING
THE FORGERS OF HISTORY
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For high school students
Documentary by Michael Prazan and Valérie Igounet, France, 52 min, 2014.
Theme: History of negationist discourse since the end of the war.
Activity: Exchanges with Valérie Igounet, historian (subject).
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
MARCH 2026
Week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism from March 16 to 20, 2026
ANTISEMITISM, FROM YESTERDAY TO TODAY, DECONSTRUCT PREJUDICES
Monday, March 16, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Themes: Antisemitism, prejudices.
Activity: Analysis of film excerpts and ancient or contemporary representations with Jonathan Hayoun, director of the documentary History of Anti-Semitism, and Lucie Vouzelaud, associate professor of history.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
DAY DEDICATED TO THE THEME OF SPORT, MIRROR OF OUR SOCIETIES – CNRD
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
FROM THE BERLIN OLYMPICS TO TODAY, THE SPORT MIRROR OF OUR COMPANIES – CNRD
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Themes: Olympic Games, anti-Semitism, racial segregation, sexism, homophobia, discrimination.
Historical periods: From 1936 to the present day.
Media: Photographs, administrative documents, articles, testimonies.
Main activities: Group work on archival documents, analysis of photographs, settled debate.
PROJECTION-MEETING
AUSCHWITZ, IN MEMORY OF THE CHAMPIONS
From 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Documentary by Frédérique Roullier, France, 70 min, 2024.
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Themes: Journey of three deported sportsmen at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Activities: Workshop in the morning and exchanges with the director.
EXPLORATORY VISIT
THE NAZI WORLDVIEW
Friday, March 20, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Themes: Nazism, anti-gypsyism, homophobia, antisemitism, operation T4, political opponents, resistance.
Historical period: World War II.
Supports: Archival documents, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
THEATRE
BREEDS
From 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in the 1st and 12th grade
Play by Jan Czul, adapted from the work of Ferdinand Bruckner (1933), 100 min, 2024.
Themes: On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the publication of the Nuremberg laws.
Activity: Exchanges with the director and the actors.
Presentation: Ferdinand Bruckner, a Jewish author who left Germany in 1933, gives us a valuable testimony about the German youth of the time and their membership in the National Socialist Party. He decrypts the state of the country and its inhabitants, the ravages of anti-Semitism carried by a wave of popular support as well as by the bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia.
BILINGUAL-READING
FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE – CNRD
THE HUMAN SPECIES OF ROBERT ANTELME AND THE PAIN OF MARGUERITE DURAS
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of the 3rd and 12th grade
Themes: The concentration camp experience, the end of the war, the return of deportees, political deportation.
Activity: Reading of excerpts chosen by the collective Rêve brut.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour in LSF.
April
Commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda
EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For the students of Terminale
with Félicité Lyamukuru, genocide survivor.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
May 2026
Commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda
THINK THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY
Monday, May 4, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For the students of Terminale
Themes: "Like men": activist trajectories of women politicians involved in the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Activity: Meeting with Juliette Bour, historian.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
FILM CYCLE: 80 YEARS OF FILMS ON THE SHOAH
PROJECTION-MEETING
MR. KLEIN OF JOSEPH LOSEY
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For the students of 1st and 12th grade
Film, France, Italy, 123 min, 1976.
Themes: Anti-Semitism, Shoah in France, collaboration, Vel d'Hiv roundup, deportation.
Activity: Exchanges with Ophir Lévy (subject), film historian.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
PROJECTION-MEETING
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS’S GOODS – CNRD
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Animated film, adaptation of the tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg, France, Belgium, 81 min, 2024.
Themes: The Righteous in Poland, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Activity: Exchanges with Pauline Le Diset, film teacher, screenwriter.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour
