Signing of an agreement between the academic region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the Shoah Memorial

On Wednesday, September 13, 2017, Bernard Beignier, Rector of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur academic region, Rector of the Marseille academy, Chancellor of the universities, Emmanuel Ethis, Rector of the Nice academy, Chancellor of the universities, and Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, have signed a partnership agreement aimed at enabling many personnel from the national education system (history-geography teachers, but also teachers of literature, arts education, school teachers, and educational officials) to be specifically trained in teaching the history of the Shoah and the genocides of the 20th century.

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Why and how to "teach the history of the Shoah" in the 21st century? These questions are at the heart of the mission of the Shoah Memorial. The first archive and resource centre on the Shoah in Europe, the Memorial is also a "museum of vigilance", open to new generations, designed to learn and understand.

This 3-year partnership will have different objectives:

  • to promote the educational and cultural mission of the academic region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur through the use of the resources and skills of the Shoah Memorial
  • to promote the mission of the pedagogical service, training, development of memorial sites and external projects of the Shoah Memorial, aimed at school, university and teacher audiences, implement a programme of specific activities for the Academy and provide assistance to school and university projects,
  • to support actions aimed at school audiences, – thus encouraging regular attendance at the Shoah Memorial and participation in initiatives taken on the academy’s territory.

Thus, the Memorial will make available to the academic region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur both human and material educational resources to participate in the implementation of projects: information and training for teachers, access to resources, educational workshops within schools, creation of teaching tools, travelling exhibitions, visits, study trips for teachers and students.

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