Study trips to Auschwitz
The Mémorial de la Shoah organizes about ten one-day study trips to the Auschwitz camp for high schools in Île-de-France and several French regions. These trips are supervised by historians of the Memorial. Each year, the work of the students who went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp can be consulted on the mini-website entitled "Study trips to Auschwitz".
For high school students
TRIPS ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE REGIONS
These trips are intended for students in the first and final years of public and private education under contract. They are aimed only at entire classes, accompanied by two teachers, on the principle of voluntary service. It is up to each teaching team to carry out an educational project in which the study trip is included (exhibition, writing workshop, DVD, website, play...). The Shoah Memorial supports the classes selected in the implementation of this project.
One-day trips from:
- Marseille on Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- Nice on Thursday 22 January 2026
- Strasbourg on Wednesday 11 February 2026
- Metz on Wednesday, February 11, 2026
- Strasbourg or Vatry on Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Metz or Vatry on Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Toulouse on Tuesday 17 February 2026
Two-day trips from:
- Lille from Wednesday 18 to Thursday 19 November 2025
- Deauville from Wednesday 14 to Thursday 15 January 2026
Rate : Variable according to the regions (excluding delivery at the airport and lunch). Flights are operated from regional metropolises.
Registrations are taken into account according to the quality and relevance of the educational project presented.
Information :Tel.: 01 53 01 17 18 or lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
TRIPS ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
Three one-day study trips are organized for 24 French high schools, with 20 people per institution (18 students and 2 teachers). The selected institutions must select the high school students by asking them, for example, to write a cover letter addressed to the educational team. The participating students are welcomed at the Memorial for a preparation of the study trip, then are invited to carry out a collective educational project (taking the form of an exhibition panel) in order to communicate their experience to their classmates. These panels will then constitute the travelling exhibition Vision by the young people of Ile-de-France – at Auschwitz-Birkenau, likely to circulate within the establishments that request it.
«An incredible experience, also as a history professor, because the course is anchored in space both in Paris (the question of memory) and in Poland (facts and traces) in a European dimension»
One-day trips (dates subject to change):
- Monday 24 November 2025
- Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
Rate : Free (all costs are covered by the Memorial and the Île-de-France region, excluding transportation to the airport).
The calls for applications were sent to the institutions by the regional council of Île-de-France.
Information : Tel.: 01 53 01 17 18 or lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The Mémorial de la Shoah organizes, for middle and high school students, study trips on the history and memory of the Holocaust and the Jews in France. They are offered in several regions, for example around the internment camps and the memory of deportation (Paris, Drancy, Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compiègne...) and on the traces of Jewish life and the Holocaust in Alsace (Strasbourg, Natzweiler-Struthof...).
Information: lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
