Educational projects of the year 2008-2009: the exhibitions

The time of forbidden lives

In October 1940, the director of the high school for young girls in Lyon, Odette Brunschwig, was sent by the Vichy authorities because she was Jewish. Five l ves were then carried. A plaque pays tribute to them in the courtyard of the residence, which today has become the high school and Edouard Herriot. In December 2007, a class of 1 re STG participated in a study trip to Auschwitz organized by the Shoah Memorial in Lyon. Upon return, the students wrote personal texts, created a film and collected information on the five high schools in port. At the end of this investigation work, an exhibition entitled The Time of Forbidden Lives was installed at the CDI. She inaugurated on May 19, 2008 in the presence of Nadine Heftler, the only high school student at the port of Auschwitz to have surv cu.

Lyc e Edouard Herriot Lyon (69)

After the study trip to Auschwitz on March 26, 2008, the students of Terminale ES from high school and Jean XXIII des Herbiers held an exhibition on the history of the genocide, the deportation of the Jews of Vend and the evolution of the Holocaust since 1945. On May 29, 2008, they had a conference in the amphith tre of high school with Odette Adijes, child cach e, author of the book Odette, orphan of the Shoah, and Jean Rousseau, historian, who published a work entitled Des enfants juifs en Vend, Chavagnes 1942-1944.

Lyc e Jean XXIII - Les Herbiers (85)

Before leaving for Poland to cover the site of Auschwitz, the students of Terminale L of the Lyc e e Amp re of Lyon have been studying the evolution of the Holocaust memory in France since 1945 and visit an exhibition dedicated to Primo Levi at the Center for the History of Resistance and Portation. They watched the film Nuit et brouillard by Alain Resnais and excerpts from Shoah by Claude Lanzmann. In philosophy, they read and analyzed texts by Christopher Browning, Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz and Victor Klemperer. Finally, they searched in groups for information on the Jewish lives of the high school and port of Auschwitz. After the study trip, they participated in the conference organized on January 27 at the establishment of the day of the memory of the Holocaust and the prevention of crimes against humanity, wrote personal texts and created works of plastic arts. Their creations were presented to the public during the open days of the high school in May 2008.

Lyc e Amp re Lyon (69)

As part of an interdisciplinary project combining history, French and applied arts, the third-level Bac Pro M class of accounting at the professional high school Julie Daubi de Rombas opened an exhibition on May 15, 2008 in the presence of two Jewish port residents, Charles Zelty, who had accompanied the ves Auschwitz on March 18, and Ginette Cl ment, from the Ravensbr ck camp, who came to meet them before the study trip.

Professional high school Julie Daubi Rombas (57)

From May 27 to June 7, 2008, the museum in Aubenas hosted an exhibition dedicated to the students of the first Vocational Baccalaureate and Sales of professional high school student Marcel Gimond following the study trip to Auschwitz on December 12, 2007. A private opening was organized on May 27th by the presence of the mayor of Aubenas, Jean-Pierre Constant, and many local readers.

Lyc e professionnel Marcel Gimond Aubenas (07)