News feed on teaching and training activities in France and abroad
From 29 to 31 May 2025, the Wannsee Conference House and the Shoah Memorial will hold a Franco-German dialogue as part of the «The Shoah as a starting point» programme.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, the Memorial de la Shoah presents the educational dossier around the series of
Participate in a week of exchange and reflection at the Shoah Memorial, with workshops, meetings and memory tours to better understand and fight against racism and antisemitism.
Discover a unique program to raise awareness of the values of the Republic and the duty to remember, offered by the Memorial de la Shoah and the Île-de-France Region. Aimed at educational actors, it includes training and a trip to Auschwitz to deepen the reflection. An essential initiative to pass on history and combat discrimination.
Workshops, screenings, exceptional meetings, guided tours ... discover the new educational brochure 2024-2025 of the Shoah Memorial
The educational teams of the Memorial de la Shoah welcome you and present the new educational offer 2024-2025 at the Memorial de la Shoah d Paris et de Drancy
From 6 to 13 June 2024, on the occasion of the commemorations of the 30th
From 21 to 22 October 2024, attend the Scientific Seminar: 80 years after the end of the camp: where is the research? And how to pass on this story? at the Drancy Holocaust Memorial
As part of the European Memorial «The Shoah as a starting point», the Memorial de la Shoah offers training in Barcelona from 19 to 21 April 2024
During the school holidays, from 10 to 26 February 2024, the educational team of the Memorial de la Shoah offers a series of activities for children in Paris and Drancy.
Le Mémorial de la Shoah et Pass Culture are pleased to invite you for a guided tour on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 6:45 pm.
On the occasion of the «Paris week against racism and anti-Semitism» organized with the City of Paris, participate in the next memory courses in Paris.
During the school holidays, the teaching team of the Shoah Memorial offers different workshops adapted to the concerns and sensitivity of the young public at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy
For high school students
The educational teams of the Memorial de la Shoah welcome you and present you the new educational offer 2023-2024 at the Memorial de la Shoah d Paris et de Drancy
Educational workshops, exhibitions, training, guided tours ... discover the 2023-2024 educational brochure of the Holocaust Memorial
In partnership with mahJ.
In partnership with mahJ.
Back in pictures on the renewal of the agreement between the academy of Rennes and the Holocaust Memorial.
Back in pictures on the signing of the new agreement between the academies of Reims, Metz-Nancy and the Holocaust Memorial.
Back in pictures on the signing of the partnership agreement with the academy of Versailles.
Back in pictures on the visit of Pap Ndiaye, Minister of Education and Youth, to the Drancy Holocaust Memorial.
Educational activities program from 18 to 21 April 2023
Projection-meeting, cinema, play, testimonies, workshops and guided tours ... Discover the new educational activities program for the week against racism and antisemitism.
Join us for our next remembrance trips to Auschwitz in January and March 2023.
In January 2023, discover our next teacher training courses.
Visit the new exhibition «Spirou dans le tourment de la Shoah» during the school holidays.
Free entry, upon registration.
For families (children from 10 years)
Unpublished! Participate in the exceptional testimonies of two survivors of the genocide of the Tutsi
Attend our training day on the theme of CNRD 2022-2023
for students from Third to Final
Take part in the training course for German teachers and professors of art history/ the Paris Academy
Workshops, screenings, meetings, visits ... Discover the program of activities offered by the educational teams of the Holocaust Memorial for the holidays of All Saints.
Year 2022-2023
Discover the new educational offer 2022-2023 of the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris and Drancy
See you on Monday, September 12 at 19h live on
As part of the European Heritage Days
In collaboration with the mahJ
As part of the Shoah Memorial Summer University
Free entry, upon registration.
Discover the new educational web series of the Shoah Memorial, «Histoire(s) en série».
Since 2003, this journal, dedicated solely to the Shoah, is produced by the Regional Council of Île-de-France in collaboration with the Memorial de la Shoah which, relying on its important documentary collection, provides the texts and photos that compose it.
visit, workshop, projections, take part with your children in the activities of the Holocaust Memorial during the spring school holidays
During the week of education and actions against racism and anti-Semitism, discover the educational activities of the Memorial
from 28 to 29 March 2022
During the school holidays, the Shoah Memorial and the Musée de la Libération in Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin offer you a programme of visits linked to resistance movements in Paris during the Second World War.
A cultural journey to live in family from 10 to 110 years.
As part of the European Heritage Days on Saturday 18 September and Sunday 19 September 2021
May 14, 1941 Green Bill Scoop
Educational activity
As part of the week-long education and action against racism and anti-Semitism, four students from the Assumption school group in Bondy met Yvette Lévy at the Drancy Memorial and conducted a lengthy interview with her.
Educational conference online:
Visit of the Jewish Marsh with family throughout the month of March 2021.
Partnership between the Shoah Memorial,
On the occasion of the international day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2021, we offer you two exceptional films.
educational commemorative events
around January 27, 2021
Pedagogy
On the occasion of the commemoration of the discovery of the camps on 27 January 1945,
If you can not go to the Memorial, our educational team can set up offers in your school in Île-de-France
New awareness campaign of the Memorial: fight against misinformation of children on the internet
November 19 and November 27, 2020, participate in two free online educational conferences.
In partnership with the department of Hauts-de-Seine
The Wannsee Conference House and the Holocaust Memorial are organising an online training on 10, 14, 16 and 17 December.
Since 2018, Le Mémorial de la shoah has been committed to an innovative path of success in the academy of Clermont-Ferrand, the «Lycée de Tous les Talents».
Robert Badinter addressed the students this morning: “Saluons, Samuel Paty, hero of secularism.”
Unique broadcast this Thursday, July 16, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the film «A bag of marbles» by Christian Duguay (2017)
From 12 to 19 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the film «les Gamins de Ménilmontant» by Antarès Bassis and Pascal Auffray (2020)
From 5 to 12 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the film «Edda Maillet, lehaim, à la vie» by Claude Bochurberg
From 28 to 5 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the film «Simone Veil, une histoire française» by David Teboul
From 21 to 28 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film «A Children’s Block in Birkenau» by Chochana Boukhobza (2020)
From 14 to 21 June 2020, the Memorial de la Shoah invites you to see or watch again the film «She was called Sarah» by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (2010)
The Shoah Memorial reopens its doors on Sunday, June 14, 2020!
From 31 May to 7 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film «The origin of violence» by Elie Chouraqui (2015)
From 27 May to 4 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film «Chichinette, ma vie d'espionne» by Nicola Hens (2019)
From 24 May to 21 June 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the documentary film «Betty Marcusfeld» by Martine Bouquin (2014)
The Shoah Memorial invites you to follow us on our Instagram account and our Youtube page.
From 17 to 24 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the documentary film «I will come back» by Jean Barrat.
From 10 to 23 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the documentary film «Nous n’irons plus à Varsovie» by Gérard Alle and Sylvain Bouttet
For a week, from 3 to 9 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film “Nazi concentration camps”
A history teacher at the Lycée Léon-Blum de Créteil, decides to pass the National Contest of Resistance and Deportation (
From May 18 to June 15, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film «La Visite», by Marc Grandsard.
The life of high school student Baptiste Antignani, who had not felt anything during the visit to the Auschwitz camp with his class, was upset by his meeting with Denise Holstein. He made a film
Alongside teachers and parents, the Memorial remains committed to ensuring educational continuity and making its resources accessible to as many people as possible.
By placing civic and citizen training at the heart of its project, and by forging ever-greater partnerships with local communities in order to open up to a wider school audience, the Holocaust Memorial reaffirms its mission of teaching and education.
Discover the 2019-2020 educational brochure. As part of the new high school programs (Second and First), the Memorial de la Shoah offers a new educational offer.
The Observatory of European Memories (EUROM), the Memòshoa association and the Memorial of the Shoah organized in Lisbon on 25 and 26 April the second educational meetings for 40 teachers from the Iberian peninsula.
The Shoah Memorial, the Albanian Association of History Teachers, the Macedonian Jewish Memorial and the Serbian Ministry of Education organized the first educational meetings in Skopje from 26 to 28 March 2019, bringing together 45 teachers from the three countries.
On 12 February 2019, Charline Avenel, rector of the Versailles academy met with Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, for the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Memorial and the academy, which includes training for students and teachers as well as management training, a novelty.
The first meeting of the network of European coordinators involved in transnational training within the «La Shoah comme point de départ» programme took place on 11 January 2019 in Belgrade.
The Shoah Memorial, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia organized from 8 to 10 January in the premises of the French Institute in Belgrade the 5th educational meetings for 45 Bosnian, Serb, Croatian and Macedonian teachers
The Shoah Memorial, the European Memory Observatory EUROM and the Memoshoah association organised the first regional meeting between Spanish and Portuguese teachers at the University of Barcelona on 15 and 16 November 2018.
The University of
The second Bulgarian-Macedonian educational meeting took place in Sofia from 12 to 14 September 2018 and then in Zagreb from 2 to 4 October 2018.
The Shoah Memorial is organizing, in partnership with the Polish Centre for the Development of Education (ORE), a Franco-Polish pedagogical workshop to be held from 21 to 25 October 2018 at Sulejowek’s manor house near Warsaw.
In 2018 and 2019, the 75th anniversary of the departure of the convoys from 1943 and 1944, students can participate in these ceremonies as a continuation of pedagogical work conducted in class.
There will be new workshops, new courses, new training for teachers on our different sites, but also outside the walls. With, in the background, more and more partnerships established with cultural institutions and museums but also with communities...
For the first time, Croatian, Slovenian and Italian teachers met under the aegis of the Shoah Memorial, to exchange on the genocidal policies against Jewish communities and on the difficult war exit of the northern Adriatic which continues to fuel tensions in this region.
The Holocaust Memorial has been set up for the first time in Belarus. This training seminar for 40 local teachers was organized in partnership with the BWI Historical Workshop.
Le Mémorial de la Shoah and the Agence pour l'Enseignement Français à l'Etranger organized a seminar in Dakar (Senegal) on 11 and 12 April 2018 for all West African history teachers teaching in the French system.
At the request of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the Shoah Memorial was held for 3 days in Braga from 5 to 7 April 2018 for 30 teachers from northern Portugal.
On the occasion of the exhibition
As part of Holocaust Remembrance Day, several events took place at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy on 25 and 26 January 2018. Discover these moments in pictures.
The third edition of the Italian University organized by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin took place from 2 to 7 December 2017 with 26 Italian history professors who came to train on the theme: Rethinking and teaching the history of Nazism.
For the first time, the Ministries of Education of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia cooperated directly in a regional partnership initiated and supported by the Holocaust Memorial.
A workshop, aimed at institutions in central Italy and bringing together Italian and French speakers, was held in Cattolica from 8 to 11 November 2017.
From 20 to 23 September 2017, the Shoah Memorial and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia held a training session focusing on mass atrocities in the Balkans in Nis in southern Serbia for 40 teachers.
On Thursday, October 12, 2017, the Memorial of the Shoah, the Academy of Poitiers, the Ecole Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Education (ESPE) and the University of Poitiers signed a convention.
The Shoah Memorial and the Portuguese Ministry of Education signed a partnership agreement on Tuesday, 19 September 2017.
Wednesday 13 September 2017, Bernard Beignier, Rector of the academic region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rector of the academy of Marseille, Chancellor of universities, Emmanuel Ethis, Rector of the academy of Nice, Chancellor of universities, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, signed a partnership agreement aimed at enabling many national education staff to be trained specifically in teaching the history of the Shoah and the genocides of the 20th century.
The Holocaust Memorial organized a transnational seminar in Skopje from 29 August to 2 September 2017, bringing together 40 Macedonian and Bulgarian teachers, in cooperation with the Memorial of the Jews of Macedonia, the ministries of education of both countries, the Association of Bulgarian History Teachers and the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Transmitting the history of the Shoah is the essential mission of the Memorial. To carry it out, our institution intends to act with and at the side of professors, whose role is to teach history but also, and above all, to awaken consciences.
The Holocaust Memorial and the Ministry of Education of Latvia held a training seminar for 50 teachers at the House of Europe in Riga from 4 to 6 July 2017.
A partnership agreement was signed in Bordeaux on Thursday, June 29, 2017 by Olivier DUGRIP, rector of the Bordeaux academy, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Memorial de la Shoah.
Nearly 40 students of educational sciences and young researchers have taken the “Genocide and mass atrocities” course. Educational and pedagogical tools on history and memories» co-organized by the European Observatory of Memories of the Solidarity UB Foundation, the Shoah Memorial and
From 25 to 28 April, a training seminar for teachers on the mass crimes of the Second World War in the Balkans was held at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in Sarajevo.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the workshop campaign outside the walls of the Shoah Memorial in the Academy of Toulouse, on April 27, 2017, a partnership agreement was signed between the Shoah Memorial, the Academy of Toulouse and the mutual partners (MGEN, Casden, MAE Solidarité, MAIF and ASL) to support these workshops in the academy.
The Shoah Memorial has just completed its first training operation in Greece, in support of an initiative by the Greek Ministry of Education and the Jewish Museum in Athens.
The event was held in partnership between the Polish Education Agency and the Shoah Memorial, bringing together 40 teachers.
The Memorial signs agreements with the Academies of Nice and Montpellier in January and February 2017.
At a time when the school curricula encourage better to take into account civic engagement and to better understand the issues of the Resistance, it appeared necessary to offer teachers an updated synthesis of knowledge on this period.
The Memorial of the Shoah organized a seminar in Milan on 24 November 2016, in partnership with the Associazione Figli della Shoah and the Memoriale della Shoah Binario31 in Milan.
The Shoah Memorial held two teacher training seminars in Belgrade (Serbia) and Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) in October 2016.
On Monday 19 September 2016,
Le Mémorial de la Shoah presents its 2016-2017 educational offer on the occasion of two Open Doors afternoons at its two sites.
As part of an agreement signed between the Memorial de la Shoah and the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, many actions will be implemented at the Drancy Memorial from the beginning of 2016.
For more than 10 years, the Memorial has been involved in education not only by offering teacher training sessions but also educational activities for students, adapted to their age and sensitivity.
The Shoah Memorial and Yad Vashem have joined forces to offer the Ministries of Education of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia the first joint training for teachers from the three Baltic countries.
Around many conferences, screenings and workshops, the issues related to the teaching of the Shoah are addressed with the best European specialists. From 6 to 8 July for teachers in schools, and from 3 to 8 July for teachers in colleges and high schools.
From 29 to 31 March, a training seminar will be held in Lisbon, in partnership with Memoshoa (an association for the memory and teaching of the Holocaust in Portugal) on the theme “Teaching the history of the Holocaust and genocide”.
The Shoah Memorial hosted a two-day seminar in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, for an audience of ministerial officials on integrating genocide and mass killings into the education system. Objective: to integrate the teaching of the Holocaust.
The Shoah Memorial conducted its first initial training action in Serbia from 20 to 22 February 2016, offering students in Belgrade two days dedicated to the Shoah and mass crimes in the Balkans.
The Shoah Memorial is organizing a series of educational meetings on 26 and 27 March 2016 to allow teachers to exchange on pedagogical practices related to the history of the Shoah in the face of teaching challenges.
