With the Pithiviers Station and the CERCIL-musée Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv (Orléans)
The inter-museums are offered as part of partnerships between the Shoah Memorial and various institutions. These courses allow students to better understand the chosen theme.
Booking is mandatory at both establishments.
85 years of the Vel d'Hiv roundup
The Vel d'Hiv roundup
Level: from 9th to 12th grade
Through the discovery of places of memory of the Vel d'Hiv roundup, students reconstitute the history and memory of this arrest that has become the symbol of the Shoah in France.
Two paths to choose from:
Route 1: Paris Shoah Memorial and Pithiviers Station
Shoah Memorial
Visit of the memorial sites of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in the 15th arrondissement followed by a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
Level: from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Vel d'Hiv, roundup, memoirs, Justes de Francae, deportations, hidden children.
Historical periods: World War II, history of the present time.
Media: Photographs, letters, administrative documents, video clips, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the room: Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups, then restitution.
Visit of the memorial sites of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in the 15th arrondissement followed by a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
Duration: Visit of the memorial sites in the 15th arrondissement (1 h); Visit of the Shoah Memorial in Paris (1 h)
Pithiviers Station
The students continue their memorial journey at Pithiviers station and on the site of the former internment camp. This change in scale allows us to understand what is at stake after the arrest, by understanding, from archives and period photographs, the conditions of internment of families.
Duration: 2 hours
To reach the site of Pithiviers: 1 hour 30 minutes by bus (to be booked by the establishment)
Route 2: Shoah Memorial in Paris or the Drancy and CERCIL Shoah Memorial – Children’s Memorial Museum of the Vel d'Hiv
Shoah Memorial
Visit of the memorial sites of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in the 15th arrondissement followed by a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris or the Shoah Memorial in Drancy
Level: from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Vel d'Hiv, roundup, memoirs, Justes de France, deportations, hidden children.
Historical periods: World War II, history of the present time.
Media: Photographs, letters, administrative documents, video clips, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the room: Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups, then restitution.
Duration: Visit to the memorial sites in the 15th arrondissement (1 hour); Visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris or the Shoah Memorial in Drancy (1.5 hour)
Center for Study and Research on the internment camps in Loiret (CERCIL) – Memorial Museum of the children of the Vel d'Hiv
Visit-workshop
Students continue the study of the memory construction of the roundup by discovering this place created in 2011. The visit is accompanied by a workshop on the representations of the Vel d'Hiv on screen. Indeed, the roundup is the subject of books, testimonies and films.
How is it presented in cinema? Does its representation correspond to historical reality?
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes
