Signing of a partnership agreement with the academy of Bordeaux

Jacques Fredj, director of the Mémorial de la Shoah and Olivier Dugrip, rector of the academy of Bordeaux and chancellor of universities.

The establishment of this partnership is intended to strengthen the links forged over the past ten years between the Academy of Bordeaux and the Shoah Memorial through the organization of training days and study trips for students and their teachers.

In February 2017, 40 literature and history teachers from professional education thus participated in a trip to Auschwitz and to Krakow organized by the Memorial as part of a program funded by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. New actions are planned as of the back-to-school 2017, including one interdisciplinary training course on the teaching of the Shoah through literature, archives, photography, and cinema.
The teachers of the first degree are not forgotten since a day of training on the teaching of the Shoah in cycle 3 took place on March 22, 2017 on the air Canopée de Pau.

Sandrine Labeau, professor of letters and history at the Val de Garonne high school in Marmande, was appointed by the rector to monitor the implementation of the partnership with the Memorial. She will be responsible for supporting the development of her actions in the academy and providing educational support to teachers. New academic correspondent of the Memorial, Sandrine Labeau co-wrote with Alexandre Doulut a book retracing the individual destinies of the 473 Jewish deportees from Lot-et-Garonne (Après l'oubli, 2010).

The Mémorial de la Shoah is also associated with the chair on the history of genocides in the twentieth century created at Sciences Po Bordeaux in 2011 thanks to financial support from SNCF. This teaching chair is dedicated to Joseph Benzacar, a Bordeaux academic deported and assassinated in Auschwitz in 1944.