News feed of teaching and training actions in France and internationally
The Shoah Memorial looks back on its Open Days (Drancy and Paris), moments of privileged exchanges with teachers.
Meet in Toulouse on November 5, 2025 at the Museum of the Resistance in Toulouse to decipher the theme of the upcoming National Competition of Resistance and Deportation (CNRD) for teachers.
Faced with divergent historical narratives in Europe, the program "The Shoah as a starting point" of the Memorial of the Shoah is an essential device. This pan-European network trains teachers to develop innovative teaching methods. The article notably details the recent session in Vilnius, which allowed Baltic professors to discuss local challenges of memory and teaching about the Shoah. Discover how History is transmitted across the continent.
Discover the new 2025-2026 educational brochure proposed by the Shoah Memorial
Thursday, September 25 and Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 6 PM to 8 PM, the educational teams of the Shoah Memorial invite schools of journalism, cinema, and photography to discover the exhibition "
Visiting the Shoah Memorial, Magnus Brunner paid tribute to the victims by browsing through the sites of memory before concluding with a wreath deposit and the signing of the guest book.
From July 5 to 10, 2025, the Shoah Memorial organized seminars for teachers to deepen the teaching of the Holocaust with the support of experts and educational visits.
From 29 to 31 May 2025, the Wannsee Conference House and the Shoah Memorial are organizing a Franco-German dialogue as part of the program "The Holocaust as a starting point".
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, the Mémorial de la Shoah presents the educational dossier about the series of
Participate in a week of exchanges and reflection at the Shoah Memorial, with workshops, meetings and memory journeys to better understand and fight against racism and antisemitism.
In March 2025, the Shoah Memorial recommits itself and offers free activities for school audiences.
Discover a unique program to raise awareness about the values of the Republic and the duty to remember, offered by the Shoah Memorial and the Île-de-France Region. Intended for educational actors, it includes training and a trip to Auschwitz to deepen the reflection. An essential initiative to convey history and fight against discrimination.
Workshops, screenings, exceptional meetings, guided tours ... discover the new 2024-2025 educational brochure of the Shoah Memorial
The educational teams of the Shoah Memorial welcome you and present the new educational offer 2024-2025 at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy
Discover the theme of the CNRD for the year 2024-2025: "Liberate and Rebuild France (1943-1945)"
From June 6 to 13, 2024, on the occasion of the commemorations of the 30th
From October 21 to 22, 2024, attend the Scientific Seminar: 80 years after the end of the camp: where is the research? And how to convey this story? at the Memorial of the Shoah in Drancy
As part of the European mechanism of the Memorial "The Shoah as a starting point", the Shoah Memorial offers you a training in Barcelona from April 19 to 21, 2024
During the school holidays, from February 10 to 26, 2024, the educational team of the Shoah Memorial offers you a series of activities for children in Paris and Drancy.
The Shoah Memorial and Pass Culture are pleased to invite you to a guided tour on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 18:45.
On the occasion of the "Parisian Week of Struggle against Racism and Anti-Semitism" and organized with the City Hall of Paris, participate in the next memory courses in Paris.
During school holidays, the educational team of the Shoah Memorial offers different workshops adapted to the concerns and sensitivity of young audiences at the Paris and Drancy Shoah Memorial
For high school students
The educational teams of the Shoah Memorial welcome you and present the new educational offer 2023-2024 at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Drancy
Educational workshops, exhibitions, training, guided tours ... discover the 2023-2024 educational brochure of the Shoah Memorial
In partnership with the mahJ.
In partnership with the mahJ.
Return in pictures on the renewal of the agreement between the academy of Rennes and the Shoah Memorial.
A look back in pictures at the signing of the new agreement between the academies of Reims, Metz-Nancy and the Shoah Memorial.
Return in pictures on the signing of the partnership agreement with the academy of Versailles.
A look back in pictures on the visit of Pap Ndiaye, Minister of National Education and Youth, to the Shoah Memorial in Drancy.
Program of educational activities from April 18 to 21, 2023
Screening-meeting, cinema, play, testimonials, workshops and guided tours ... discover the new program of educational activities for the week against racism and antisemitism.
Participate in our upcoming memory trips to Auschwitz in January and March 2023.
In January 2023, discover our upcoming teacher training courses.
Visit the new exhibition "Spirou in the torment of the Shoah" during school holidays.
Free admission, upon registration.
For families (children from 10 years old)
Unpublished! Participate in the exceptional testimonies of two survivors of the genocide of the Tutsi
Participate in our training day on the theme of CNRD 2022-2023
for students from Third to Terminale
Participate in the training course for German teachers and professors in charge of art history/ the academy of Paris
Workshops, screenings, meetings, visits ... discover the program of activities proposed by the educational teams of the Shoah Memorial for the All Saints' Day holidays.
Year 2022-2023
Discover the new 2022-2023 educational offer of the Paris and Drancy Shoah Memorial
See you on Monday, September 12th at 7 PM live on
As part of the European Heritage Days
In collaboration with the mahJ
As part of the summer university of the Shoah Memorial
Free admission, upon registration.
Discover the new educational web series of the Shoah Memorial, "History(s) in series".
Since 2003, this newspaper, only devoted to the Holocaust, is produced by the Regional Council of Île-de-France in collaboration with the Memorial of the Shoah which, relying on its large documentary fund, provides the texts and photos that compose it.
visit, workshop, screenings, participate with your children in the activities of the Shoah Memorial during the spring school holidays
On the occasion of the week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism, discover the educational activities of the Memorial
from March 28 to 29, 2022
During the school holidays, the Mémorial de la Shoah and the Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin offer you a program of coupled visits on the resistances in Paris during the Second World War.
A cultural journey to live with family from 10 to 110 years.
As part of the European Heritage Days on Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, September 19, 2021
Raid of the green ticket from May 14, 1941
Educational activity
As part of the week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism, four students from the school group of the Assumption in Bondy met Yvette Lévy at the Drancy Memorial and conducted a long interview with her.
Online educational conference:
Visit of the Jewish Swamp with your 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, January 27, 2021, we offer you two exceptional films.
commemorative educational events
around January 27, 2021
Pedagogy
On the occasion of the commemoration of the discovery of the camps on January 27, 1945,
If you cannot go to the Memorial, our educational team can set up offers in your school in Île-de-France
New awareness campaign of the Memorial: let’s fight against disinformation of children on the internet
19 November and 27 November 2020, participate in two free online educational conferences.
In partnership with the department of Hauts-de-Seine
The Wannsee Conference House and the Shoah Memorial are organizing an online training session on December 10, 14, 16 and 17.
Since 2018, the Shoah Memorial 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 "Hail, Samuel Paty, hero of secularism".
One-time broadcast this Thursday, July 16, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or rewatch the movie "A Bag of Marbles" by Christian Duguay (2017)
From 12 to 19 July 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or watch again the film 'Les Gamins de Ménilmontant' by Antarès Bassis and Pascal Auffray (2020)
From July 5 to 12, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see the movie "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, a French story' by David Teboul
From June 21 to 28, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or review the documentary film 'A Kinderblock in Birkenau' by Chochana Boukhobza (2020)
From June 14 to 21, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or rewatch the film "She was called Sarah" by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (2010)
The Shoah Memorial reopens its doors on Sunday, June 14, 2020!
From May 31 to June 7, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or review the documentary film 'The Origin of Violence' by Elie Chouraqui (2015)
From May 27 to June 4, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or review the documentary film 'Chichinette, my spy life' by Nicola Hens (2019)
From May 24 to June 21, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch 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 watch the documentary film 'I will return' by Jean Barrat.
From 10 to 23 May 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch the documentary film 'We Will No Longer Go to Warsaw' by Gérard Alle and Sylvain Bouttet
For one week, from May 3 to 9, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review the documentary film 'Nazi concentration camps'
A history teacher from the Lycée Léon-Blum in Créteil, decides to hold the National Contest of Resistance and Deportation (
From 18 May to 15 June, the Shoah Memorial invites you to watch or re-watch the documentary film "La Visite" by Marc Grandsard.
The life of high school student Baptiste Antignani, who had felt nothing 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 mobilized to ensure educational continuity and make its resources accessible to as many people as possible.
By placing civic and citizen training at the heart of its project, and by weaving ever more partnerships with local communities in order to open up to a wider school audience, the Shoah Memorial loudly 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 Shoah Memorial offers a new educational offer.
The Observatory of European Memories (Eurom), the association Mémoshoa and the Shoah Memorial organized in Lisbon on 25 and 26 April the second educational meetings for 40 teachers from the Iberian Peninsula.
The Memorial of the Shoah, the Albanian association of history teachers, the Memorial of the Jews of Macedonia and the Ministry of Education of Serbia organized, from 26 to 28 March 2019 in Skopje, the first educational meetings bringing together 45 teachers from the three countries.
On February 12, 2019, Charline Avenel, rector of the Academy of Versailles 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 the training of students and teachers but also the training of executives, a novelty.
The first meeting of the network of European coordinators involved in transnational trainings within the program "Shoah as a starting point" 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 teachers Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian
The Shoah Memorial, the European Memory Observatory EUROM and the association Memoshoah organized at the University of Barcelona the first regional meeting between Spanish and Portuguese teachers 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, then in Zagreb from 2 to 4 October 2018.
The Shoah Memorial organizes in partnership with the Polish Center for the Development of Education (ORE), a Franco-Polish pedagogical workshop that will be held from 21 to 25 October 2018 at the manor of Sulejowek, near Warsaw.
In 2018 and 2019, the 75th anniversary of the departure of the convoys from the years 1943 and 1944, students can participate in these ceremonies as a continuation of educational work carried out in class.
It will be about new workshops, new courses, new training for teachers on our different sites, but also outside the walls. With, in the background, ever more partnerships established with cultural and museum institutions but also with communities...
For the first time, Croatian, Slovenian and Italian teachers gathered under the aegis of the Shoah Memorial, in order to discuss genocidal policies against Jewish communities and the difficult war exit of the northern Adriatic which continues to fuel tensions in this region.
The Shoah Memorial intervened for the first time in Belarus. This training seminar for 40 local teachers was organized in partnership with the IBB Historical Workshop.
The Mémorial de la Shoah and the Agency for French Education Abroad organized a seminar in Dakar (Senegal) on 11 and 12 April 2018 for all history teachers from West Africa teaching in the French system.
At the request of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the Shoah Memorial intervened 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 the 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 Shoah Memorial in Berlin took place from 2 to 7 December 2017 in the presence of 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 in Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia cooperated directly within a regional partnership initiated and supported by the Shoah Memorial.
An internship, intended for 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 organized a training focused on mass atrocities in the Balkans at Nis in southern Serbia for 40 teachers.
On Thursday, October 12, 2017, the Shoah Memorial, the Academy of Poitiers, the Higher School of Teaching and Education (ESPE) and the University of Poitiers signed an agreement.
The Shoah Memorial and the Portuguese Ministry of Education signed a framework partnership agreement on Tuesday, September 19, 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 the universities, Emmanuel Ethis, Rector of the academy of Nice, Chancellor of the universities, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial have signed a partnership agreement aimed at enabling many staff from the national education system to be specifically trained in teaching the history of the Holocaust and the genocides of the 20th century.
The Shoah Memorial organized in Skopje, from 29 August to 2 September 2017, a transnational seminar bringing together 40 Macedonian and Bulgarian teachers, in cooperation with the Memorial of the Jews of Macedonia, the ministries of education of the two committed countries, the association of history teachers of Bulgaria 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 alongside the professors, whose role is to teach History but also, and above all, to awaken consciences.
The Shoah Memorial and the Ministry of Education of Latvia organized a training seminar for 50 teachers from 4 to 6 July 2017 at the Maison de l'Europe in Riga.
A partnership agreement was signed in Bordeaux on Thursday, June 29, 2017 by Olivier DUGRIP, rector of the academy of Bordeaux, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial.
Nearly 40 students in education sciences and young researchers attended the training course "Genocides and mass atrocities." 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 campaign of workshops 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) in order to support these workshops in the academy.
The Shoah Memorial has just carried out its first training operation in Greece, in support of an initiative by the Greek Ministry of Education and the Jewish Museum in Athens.
Fruit of a partnership between the Polish Agency for Education and the Shoah Memorial, these meetings brought together 40 teachers.
The Memorial signs agreements with the Academies of Nice and Montpellier in January and February 2017.
At a time when school programs encourage to better take into account citizen 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 Shoah Memorial organized a seminar in Milan on November 24, 2016, in partnership with the Associazione figli della Shoah and the Memorial of the Shoah Binario31 of Milan.
The Shoah Memorial organized two training seminars for teachers in Belgrade (Serbia) and then in Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) in October 2016.
On Monday, September 19, 2016,
The Shoah Memorial presents its educational offer 2016-2017 on the occasion of two Open Doors afternoons at its two sites.
As part of an agreement signed between the Shoah Memorial and the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, many actions will be implemented at the Drancy Memorial from the start of the 2016 school year.
For more than 10 years, the Memorial has been engaged in educational field not only by offering training sessions to teachers, but also educational activities for students, adapted to their age and sensitivity.
The Shoah Memorial and Yad Vashem have teamed up to propose to the Ministries of Education of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia the first joint training for teachers from the 3 Baltic countries.
Around numerous conferences, screenings and workshops, questions related to the teaching of the Shoah are addressed with the best European specialists. From July 6 to 8 for school teachers, and from July 3 to 8 for middle and high school teachers.
From 29 to 31 March, a training seminar is being held in Lisbon, in partnership with Memoshoa (association for the memory and teaching of the Shoah in Portugal) on the theme "Teaching the history of the Holocaust and genocides".
The Shoah Memorial hosted a two-day seminar in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, for an audience of ministerial officials on the integration of genocides and mass killings into the education system. Objective: to integrate the teaching of the Shoah.
The Shoah Memorial conducted its first initial training activity in Serbia from 20 to 22 February 2016, offering students from Belgrade two days dedicated to the Holocaust and mass crimes in the Balkans.
The Shoah Memorial is organizing educational conferences on 26 and 27 March 2016 to allow teachers to discuss pedagogical practices concerning the history of the Holocaust in the face of teaching challenges.
