Signing of a partnership agreement with the Bordeaux academy

Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial and Olivier Dugrip, rector of the Bordeaux Academy and chancellor of the universities.

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

In February 2017, 40 professors of literature and history from professional education have 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 soon as 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 air Canopé de Pau.

Sandrine Labeau, a professor of literature and history at the Val de Garonne high school in Marmande, was appointed by the rector to oversee the implementation of the partnership with the Memorial. It will be responsible for supporting the development of its 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 473 Jewish deportees from Lot-et-Garonne (Après l'oubli, 2010).

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