Educational projects of the year 2008-2009: exhibitions

The time of forbidden lives

In October 1940, the director of the girls' high school in Lyon, Odette Brunschwig, was voted by the Vichy authorities because she was Jewish. Five, the ves were then carried out. A plaque pays tribute to them in the courtyard of the settlement, which today has become the lyc e Edouard Herriot. In December 2007, a class of 1 re STG participated in a study trip to Auschwitz organized by the Shoah Morial in Lyon. On the way back, the students gathered personal texts, created a film, and collected information about the five students of the port. At the end of this research work, an exhibition entitled Le temps des vies interdites was installed at the CDI. She inaugurated on May 19, 2008, in the presence of Nadine Heftler, the only one in the city to have surv cu.

Lyc e Edouard Herriot, Lyon (69)

After the journey of study, Auschwitz on March 26, 2008, the students in their final year of high school under Jean XXIII at the Herbiers Hospital presented an exhibition on the history of genocide, the fate of the Jews of Vend and the evolution of the memory of the Shoah since 1945. On May 29, 2008, they had a meeting in the auditorium of the school with Odette Adijes, a French child, 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 Auschwitz site, the final year of high school at the Lyon Opera School have been studying the development of the Shoah 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 have read and analyzed texts by Christopher Browning, Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz and Victor Klemperer. Finally, they searched in groups for information about the Jewish lives at the port of Auschwitz. After the study trip, they took part in the organization of the celebration on January 27 at the beginning of the year; the occasion for the day of the Holocaust memorial and the presentation of crimes against humanity, including personal texts and plastic arts works. Their performances were presented to the public during the Open House at the lycée in May 2008.

Lyc e Amp re Lyon (69)

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

Lyc and professional Julie Daubi, Rombas (57)

From May 27 to June 7, 2008, the museum in Aubenas hosted an exhibition dedicated to the sales of the first vocational baccalaureate for professional students, Marcel Gimond, and the continuation of the study trip at Auschwitz on December 12, 2007. A private opening was organized on May 27, in the presence of the mayor of Aubenas, Jean-Pierre Constant, and many other local people.

Lyc and professional Marcel Gimond, Aubenas (07)