Inter-museums

Booking is mandatory at both establishments.

journey WITH THE ALBERT-KAHN MUSEUM

WITH THE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY OF JUDAISM (MAHJ)

ART AND MEMORY

For students from 2de to Terminale

This itinerary offers a reflection on the work of contemporary artists who have invested in the transmission of the memory of the Shoah, through the creation of monuments, installations and performances. In doing so, these creators question the links of our society with its recent past.

1st session : Memory path and creation process at the MAHJ (duration: 2 hours 30 minutes)

STOLEN OBJECTS, LIVES SHATTERED

For students from the 3rd grade onwards

A key element in the exclusion of European Jews, spoliations are the prelude to the "Final Solution". This course proposes to discover how the "Aryanization" was implemented and, after the war, the complex restitution of stolen goods.

1st session: thematic visit Vichy and the Jews at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
2nd session: discovery tour Radiography of a museum at the MAHJ (duration: 2h)

DESTINIES OF ARTISTS

For students from the 3rd grade onwards

Synonymous with encounters and artistic effervescence, the École de Paris brings together artists from very diverse backgrounds such as Marc Chagall or Amedeo Modigliani in the pre-war Montparnasse district. Witnessing the political upheavals of Europe in the 1930s, some artists, in France and abroad, call on viewers to react to this rise in violence. This tour proposes to discover the works of these artists who have marked the history of modern art with their imprint.

1st session: Jewish Artists from the Paris School course-workshop (duration: 2 hours 30 minutes)
2nd session: Artistic creation in wartime workshop at the Shoah Memorial in Paris (duration: 3 hours)

with the pantheon

From history to memory

For middle and high school students

This inter-museum is part of a double educational perspective: the visit to the Shoah Memorial, through the history of the deportation of the Jews from France, where we meet in particular the singular journey of Simone Veil and the Jacob family. It is also a question of the family memory of the deportation in France, in the post-war years, before the gradual entry of this memory into the public sphere. The visit to the Pantheon sheds light on this slow and complex route, also recalling the values and founding principles of the nation, from the Revolution to our days.

with the establishment of Defense Communication and Audiovisual Production (ECPAD)

WAR REPORTERS

For students from 3rd to 12th grade

The Establishment of Communication and Audiovisual Production of the Defense (ECPAD), a permanent archive center of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, holds some of the photographs and films made by operators of German propaganda companies.

On site, students study the work of these reporters: their equipment and their constraints. Then, they analyze the images of propaganda produced. At the Shoah Memorial, they follow the workshop War Reporters and discover photographs of German and allied reporters who evoke the genocide of the Jews. From the analysis of an image, each student makes his "notebook of memories" with his observations, writings and sketches.

with the Army Museum

PROPAGANDA AND COUNTER-PROPAGANDA DURING WORLD WAR II

For students from 3rd to 12th grade

This itinerary highlights the importance of propaganda during the Second World War. The specificities of Nazi propaganda, and that implemented by Vichy are detailed in the Shoah Memorial. At the Musée de l'Armée, propaganda and counter-propaganda are presented in the more general context of military operations, highlighting the importance of the Call of 18 June, the beginnings of the Vichy regime and the special role of collaborationist movements.

with the National Museum of the History of Immigration

with the Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation

DEPORTATION MEMORIALS: FROM SINGULAR TO PLURAL

For students from 2de to Terminale

The arrangement of the two memorials, adjacent and complementary, highlights the confusion, both voluntary and involuntary, which still often persisted in the 1950s-1960s between "political deportee" and "racial deportee". The visit of the two sites, under the angle of architectural choices, allows to visualize the essential stages of a memory and a history of the deportation.

with the National Archives

DAILY LIFE IN THE PARIS OF OCCUPATION

For students from 3rd to 12th grade

A first half-day at the National Archives (site of Paris) is devoted to the discovery of archival sources, on the difficulties of daily life and the progressive exclusion of Jews from all social life under the Occupation. A second half-day, at the Shoah Memorial, allows students to discover other documents about the Jews during the war. After the visit, students study a filmed testimony.

with the House of Izieu

CHILDREN’S JOURNEY

For 9th grade students

In Izieu, students discover the site (house and exhibition) then, in a workshop, become aware of the diversity of the Jewish populations of Europe before, during and after the Second World War. They work directly on the archives documenting the journeys of the families of the children of Izieu. At the Shoah Memorial, they follow a visit focused on the fate of children, extended by a study of filmed testimonies.

The construction of memory

For students in primary and final year

In Izieu, students discover archives of the successful Barbie trial and then try to assess its impact, both locally and nationally. At the Shoah Memorial, students address the issue of memory construction, notably through the archives, the Wall of Names and the last room of the museum dedicated to the memory of the Shoah.

with THE MUSEUM OF THE ORDER OF LIBERATION

DEPORTATIONS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: HISTORY AND MEMORIES

For students from the 3rd grade onwards 

This course invites students to discover and analyze the different types of deportations carried out by the Nazis during the Second World War. Whether they concern political opponents, resistance fighters or the Jews of Europe, they have obeyed diverse logics that students will explore from various media. At the Shoah Memorial, they work on written testimonies, video clips, comic strips.  At the Museum of the Order of the Liberation, it is through the study of drawings and stories from resistance fighters that they learn about the functioning of the concentration camp system.  An educational booklet, a visit support, will allow students to consolidate their achievements after discovering these two institutions. These activities lead them to perceive and understand the progressive stages of the transmission of the memory of deportations.

with LE MUSÉE DE LA LIBÉRATION DE PARIS – MUSÉE DU GÉNÉRAL LECLERC – MUSÉE JEAN MOULIN

RESISTANCE AND COMMITMENTS

For students from 3rd to 12th grade

WITH THE MEMORIAL MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN OF THE VEL D’HIV (ORLEANS)

THE INTERNMENT CAMPS AND THEIR MEMORY IN FRANCE