Artistic and cultural events for students

DECEMBER 2025

THINK ABOUT THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY

Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For students in 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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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 of the abrogation of the Crémieux 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 1995 HIV FEST

Tuesday, December 16, 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For students in 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 27 January and the discovery of the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center

EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY – CNRD

Tuesday, January 13, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

Film by Giulio Ricciarelli, 120 min, Germany, 2014.

Theme: Second Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt.

Activity: Exchanges with Tal Bruttmann, historian.

The screening is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.

THINK ABOUT THE EVENT WRITE HISTORY

Friday, January 23, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

For students in 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 students in the third and final years of high school

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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

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. Mes Soeurs et Moi" / Screening-meeting 

Thursday, February 5, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

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 of the Simone Veil exhibition. My sisters and I.

PROJECTION-MEETING

THE FORGERS OF HISTORY

Tuesday, February 10, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For high school students

Documentary by Michael Prazan and Valérie Igounet, France, 52 min, 2014.

Theme: History of the 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, DECONSTRUCTING PREJUDICES

Monday, March 16, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

Themes: Anti-Semitic, prejudices.

Activity: Analysis of excerpts from films and representations, ancient or contemporary, with Jonathan Hayoun, director of the documentary Histoire de l'antisémitisme, and Lucie Vouzelaud, associate professor of history.

The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour.

DAY DEDICATED TO THE THEME OF SPORT, A 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 THAT MIRRORS OUR SOCIETIES – 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 students in the third and final years of high school

Themes: Journey of three athletes deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Activities: Morning workshop and discussions with the director.

EXPLORATORY VISIT

THE NAZI WORLDVIEW

Friday, March 20, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Themes: Nazism, anti-Gypsyism, homophobia, antisemitism, T4 operation, political opponents, resistance.

Historical period: WWII.

Supports: Archival documents, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.

Activity: in the discovery room, document analysis in small groups, then restitution.

THEATER

BREEDS

From 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.

For students in the first and last year of high school

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 account of the German youth at the time and their membership in the National Socialist party. He deciphers the state of the country and its inhabitants, the ravages of anti-Semitism carried by a popular groundswell as much 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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For students in the third and final years of high school

Themes: The concentration camp experience, the end of the war, the return of deportees, political deportation.

Activity: Reading excerpts chosen by the collective Rêve brut.

The meeting is preceded by a preparatory guided tour in LSF.

April

Commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda

EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY

Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 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