Educational activities outside the walls Activities, travelling exhibitions and training courses outside the walls
The Memorial offers schools the rental of traveling exhibitions and a number of activities easily achievable on site with students. Among these activities are educational workshops intended for both primary school students and middle and high school students (some workshops may be associated with exhibitions). Training, screenings, meetings and testimonials can also be offered to teachers, depending on their educational project or a theme they wish to deepen with the students.
BROCHURE OUTSIDE THE WALLS
workshops for primary school students
Educational workshops
- The child with two names
- Joseph, Jean, Claude and the others
- The star of the fighter
- Sport in the face of discrimination
- Us and them: what is racism?
- Simone Veil, a French History
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workshop for MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL
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Prejudices in everyday life and in History
How do prejudices form? How can they sometimes lead to institutionalized racism or genocide? The students address these questions
by analyzing the prejudices transmitted by language or propaganda images. They also try to put into perspective the role of certain racist prejudices in the history of the 20th century.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Letters – Philosophy – Moral and civic education
- The factory of the plot: yesterday and today
Plot or conspiracy theory? The history of the Shoah is a revealing example of the manipulation of public opinion. Structured by anti-Semitism, the Nazi ideology is based on a conspiratorial vision of the world. By establishing relevant links between history and the very contemporary period, the workshop aims to provide tools to better analyze images and speeches that circulate on the Internet and social networks.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Plastic arts – Moral and civic education
- From the Berlin Olympics to the present day: does sport reflect our societies?
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Used by the Nazi regime as a real propaganda tool, the competition is put to contribution to make the 1936 Olympics the symbol of the greatness of the III Reich. Sport was thus regularly instrumentalized by political regimes, sparking resistance from civil societies. This workshop gives a large place to the destinies of athletes, their commitments to fight against all forms of discrimination and the media coverage of their fights.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Plastic arts – Moral and civic education
- Information and disinformation: uses and good practices of media
At a time when traditional media are being questioned and social networks occupy a considerable place in the daily lives of students, unraveling truth from falsehood becomes increasingly difficult and yet indispensable. Through the study of different media (texts, photographs, videos), students learn to further stimulate their critical thinking, identify the sources of information and verify them. This workshop aims at the appropriation of tools and reflexes to better cope with a continuous flow of information.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Philosophy – Moral and civic education
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The Imaginary Jew: a history of antijewish myths
From the 3rd – from January 2025
Although the term Antisemirésumé was coined at the end of the 19th century, hatred against the Jews rests on several plurisecular myths reactivated in times of crisis. From the Middle Ages to the present day, students analyze, from documents of various kinds, the construction of antisemitic speeches and imagery over a long period, between permanences and mutations. Far from the imaginary Jew, reflection opens, through constant exchanges and dedicated activities, on a discovery of the diversity of the Jewish worlds.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Geography – Moral and civic education
GENOCIDES OF THE 20th CENTURY
Through the discovery of comic strips, this workshop proposes to study the genocides of Armenians, Jews and Tutsis. Students are invited to reflect and compare several albums, notably Mémé d'Arménie, Maus and La Fantaisie des Dieux. Thanks to an original narrative and a particular graphic design, they address the representation of the genocidal process and the questions raised by the transmission of memory.
- Images of Auschwitz: History and representations
From the 3rd – From January 2025
The photographs taken by the Allies during the discovery of the concentration camps largely contributed to creating a false representation of the Shoah. But the analysis of the photographs taken by the SS at Auschwitz in 1944 allows us to grasp, provided we question them, the history and the representations of this place which has become central in the history of the genocide of the Jews.
During the workshop, students will be led to work on various visual and textual archives, to reflect on the relationship with images and to exercise their critical thinking.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Plastic arts – Letters – Moral and civic education
- Justice in the face of genocide
For the students of Terminale
Since 1945, the Justice system has been striving to answer questions raised by crimes of genocide: who are they? Who are the perpetrators? How to punish those
who participated in these crimes? This workshop aims to engage in a reflection on the relationship of societies with genocides and the ability of survivors to come back to life.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Plastic arts – Letters – Moral and civic education
From the 3rd
This workshop aims to better understand the reasons for the internment of Gypsies in France and their killing in Nazi Europe through different paths and individual destinies. It contributes to a better knowledge of gypsy cultures and the deconstruction of prejudices still present today.
Disciplines/teachings: History – Plastic arts – Letters – Moral and civic education
- Jewish Resistances: save, fight, witness – CNRD
From the 3rd – From January 2025
Collecting documents, making a fake identity card, transmitting valuable information or taking up arms attests to the diversity of acts of resistance during war. Thanks to the study of archives and individual testimonies, the students highlight the different forms of engagement of these Jewish women and men in the face of the Holocaust.
Disciplines/teachings: Letters – History – Philosophy – Moral and civic education
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Women in the Resistance: the first engaged – CNRD
From the 3rd
Liaison officer, summoner of escapees or Jewish children, doctor... women played an essential role in the Resistance. Yet, in Memory and History, their actions were long neglected, as the image of the resistant-fighter was first imposed. By endeavouring to describe the itineraries and actions of five figures of resistance fighters, the students also initiate themselves into historical research, by reconstituting the journeys of heroic women, engaged in one way or another from 1940-1941.
Disciplines/teachings: Letters – History – Philosophy – Moral and civic education
- Lights in the night: routes of the Righteous among the nations
From the 3rd
Awarded to any non-Jewish person who helped Jews during the Holocaust, this honorary title has been bestowed to date on nearly 27,921 people. Originating from near
50 countries, all of them have decided to oppose, at the risk of their lives and without compensation, hatred and dehumanization. This workshop proposes to discover several paths of the Righteous in Europe, emphasizing the motivations and forms of rescue, whose recognition was sometimes late in the collective memory. By taking all the risks to come to the aid of persecuted Jews, these men and women embody the fundamental values of justice, dignity and humanity.
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BOOKLETS TO HELP WITH THE PREPARATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP
Thematic booklets specific to certain workshops offered at the Memorial allow teachers to address the workshop topics, in advance, with their students.
Rental of traveling exhibitions
The Shoah Memorial designs and produces traveling exhibitions intended to circulate throughout France. They are accessible to middle school and high school students. They present often unpublished archives (iconographic documents, letters, testimonies...) which illustrate concise texts supervised by specialists. Maps and glossaries facilitate understanding of the themes presented. Educational support booklets are made available to teachers so that they can work on the exhibition with their class. Finally, educational workshops and training may be associated with certain exhibitions.
All TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS
Conditions : The exhibitions, available in different formats, are to be removed from the Shoah Memorial.
p. m.: metallic panels / p. s.: flexible panels
Dimensions to be understood as width by height. Rental costs, transport and insurance are the responsibility of the borrowing institutions. Technical specifications, exhibition descriptions and tour guides are available via the link above.
Price: Exhibition: 300 € for a period of 15 days.
Information locations: Tel. : 01 53 01 17 51 or by email assiste.expositions.itinerantes@memorialdelashoah.org
Activities in Toulouse
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Born in 2008 and based in Toulouse, the southern branch relays the actions of the Shoah Memorial to the general public and offers a number of activities for school students: educational workshops, screenings-meetings, historical tours, itinerant exhibition rentals, meetings with witnesses and historians, etc. A summer university is offered each year in July as well as training sessions for teachers to update their knowledge on the genocides of the 20th century and propose educational avenues.
Every year, in partnership with the rector of the academy of Toulouse, two days of training are also organized for primary and secondary school teachers.
Information and reservations: antennesud@memorialdelashoah.org
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