Artistic and cultural events for students
Le Mémorial de la Shoah offers students from the 3rd to the final year a new program around theater, music and cinema. It is accompanied by exceptional encounters. Each event will be preceded by a guided tour or a workshop.
NOVEMBER 2026
Screening-meeting: 1941, the secrets of the "green ticket" roundup
Around the exhibition Images de la rafle du "billet vert"
Thursday, November 12, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
by Virginie Linhart, (documentary, 60 min, 2022).
In the presence of Lior Lalieu, co-curator of the exhibition and head of the photo library at the Shoah Memorial.
Activities Exchanges with Lior Lalieu. The meeting is followed by a preparatory guided tour.
Meeting: With comic book authors
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students from 9th to 12th grade
On the occasion of the publication of the comic strip What I Saw at Auschwitz: Alter’s Notebooks (Dupuis, 2026).
In the presence of Roger Fajnzylberg and Alban Perrin, historian, and Jean–David Morvan, screenwriter.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
DECEMBER 2026
Cycle of dramatized readings (Paris-Drancy): The voices of witnesses
Monday, December 7, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Being without destiny by Imre Kertész.
Read by Loris Mercatelli, comedian.
Theme: Imre Kertész was born in 1929 in Budapest to a non-practicing Jewish family, and was 15 years old in 1944 when he was deported to Auschwitz. He tells the story in this monumental work.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the actor.
Conference: Thinking about the event, writing history
Wednesday, December 9, 2026 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For students in Terminale
Theme: What is a genocide? International news of a legal notion.
In the presence of Yann Jurovics, senior lecturer in international law and former expert at international tribunals.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
JANUARY 2027
Conference: Thinking about the event, writing history – CNRD
Monday, January 4, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
Themes: Foreigners in the Resistance 1940-1945.
In the presence of Zoé Grumberg, historian.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
Around January 27, the 82nd anniversary of the "liberation" of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Exceptional Testimony: Ginette Kolinka, survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Monday, January 18, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
80 YEARS OF EXODUS
Conference: Thinking about the event, writing history
Tuesday, January 19, 2027, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For students in Terminale
Theme: Leaving to survive, the 80th anniversary of the departure of Exodus.
In the presence of Denis Charbit, professor of political science at the faculty of humanities of the Open University, Israel.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
Dramatized reading cycle (Paris – Drancy) The voices of witnesses
Wednesday, January 26, 2027, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
If he is a man of Primo Levi.
Read by Maud Landau, actress.
Theme: Primo Levi was born in 1919 in Turin to an assimilated Jewish family.During the war he joined a group of partisans. Arrested in 1944, he was deported as a Jew to Auschwitz. He tells the story in this monumental work.
The reading is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the actress.
FEBRUARY 2027
PROJECTION-MEETING
Manouchian and those of the Red Poster – CNRD
Thursday, February 4, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
by Hugues Nancy and Denis Peschanski (documentary, 97 min, 2024).
In the presence of Denis Peschanski, historian.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the historian.
Around the exhibition Joseph Kessel, the other and the elsewhere
PROJECTION-MEETING
La Passante du Sans-Souci
Around the exhibition ” Simone Veil. Mes Soeurs et Moi/ Screening-meeting
Thursday, February 5, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For students in Terminale
by Jacques Rouffio (film, 110 min, 1982)
In the presence of Ophir Lévy, film historian.
Theme: Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel published in 1936.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the historian.
Meeting: With comic book authors
Friday, February 26, 2027, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
The Army of the Shadows by Jean-David Morvan, Emmanuel Moynot and Benoît Lacou (Philéas, 2024).
In the presence of Jean–David Morvan (subject).
Themes: based on the novel by Joseph Kessel published in 1943.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
MARCH 2027
Week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism from March 22 to 26, 2027
Meeting: Anti-Semitism from yesterday to today, deconstructing prejudices
Monday, March 22, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
In the presence of Jonathan Hayoun, director of the documentary Histoire de l'antisémitisme, and Lucie Vouzelaud, associate professor of history.
Theme: Return on the origins and mutations of anti-Jewish myths by analyzing excerpts from the documentary directed by Jonathan Hayoun.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
Musical reading: O you, human brothers
Tuesday, March 23, 2027, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
by Albert Cohen
By Jérôme Bidaux, comedian, and Julian Boutin, musician.
Theme: In this story, Albert Cohen returns to a childhood event: on his tenth birthday, he has the brutal experience of anti-Semitism.
This intimate wound turns into a universal question: how are hatred and fear of others born?
The reading is preceded by a visit to the memorial sites and the Marais district: Sur les traces de la vie juive à Paris, followed by an exchange with the actors.
Dramatized reading cycle (Paris – Drancy): The voices of witnesses
Thursday, March 25, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in the third and final years of high school
The Night of Elie Wiesel
Read by Maud Landau, actress.
Theme: Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Romania to a devout Jewish family, and was 15 years old in 1944 when he was deported to Auschwitz.
He tells the story in this monumental work.
The reading is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the actress.
On the occasion of the press and media week in the school
Around the exhibition Joseph Kessel, the other and the elsewhere
Screening-meeting: Joseph Kessel, la mallette de l'ogre
Tuesday, March 30, 2027, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For students in Terminale
by Patrick de Saint-Exupéry (documentary, 62 min, 2024)
In the presence of Patrick de Saint–Exupéry, journalist and director.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour and followed by an exchange with the director.
April 2027
Commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY
Thursday, April 1, 2027, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
For students in Terminale
with Félicité Lyamukuru, a genocide survivor.
The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
May 2026
Commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
THINK ABOUT THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY
Monday, May 4, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For students in 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 SHOAH FILMS
PROJECTION-MEETING
MR. KLEIN OF JOSEPH LOSEY
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For students in grade 1 and 12
Film, France, Italy, 123 min, 1976.
Themes: Anti-Semitism, Shoah in France, collaboration, Vel d'Hiv roundup, deportation.
Activity: Discussions with Ophir Lévy (subject), film historian.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.
PROJECTION-MEETING
THE MOST VALUABLE OF MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS' GOODS – CNRD
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For students from 3rd to 12th grade
Animated film, adapted from the tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg, France, Belgium, 81 min, 2024.
Themes: The Righteous in Poland, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Activity: Discussions with Pauline Le Diset, film teacher and screenwriter.
The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour
