Projects for the year 2006-2007: students' reactions
A time for exchange and discussion is generally necessary upon returning from the study trip to give students the floor. The passage through writing is also a way to express personal feelings and reflections. Written spontaneously or at the request of the teachers, the texts of the high school students testify to the impact of the trip and the meeting with the former deportees.
��In Auschwitz, the time will stop. There are no more passes, nor futures. I had the impression that I would never leave this camp. A bubble s formed around me. The voices of others had become distant, and yet, I could r p ter by what I heard below. I try to talk with friends so as not to cut off from others and even though I was absent. There was nothing to say and I no longer felt the cold of the snow, because it didn’t matter anymore.
The fifth of 1 re ES from high school Jean de Lattre de Tassigny de La Roche-sur-Yon (85).
��The pain is of knowledge. Knowing that a disaster has rolled over this almost empty, peaceful place today, where nature has regained its rights. I feel and I tell myself that yes, the pain is for knowing. And this knowledge, the most important thing is to transmit it.
H l ne Rabotin, the ve of 1 re L, lyc e Jean Rostand from Chantilly (60).
��Auschwitz: a cold, dead place. Barbel wires everywhere, loss of sight. Barracks, here, there, further, down at the bottom. And an empty space in the middle, the rails, which go up to the red brick entrance porch. The cold freezes us, but the temperature close to z ro is not the only one responsible. It’s snowing. A white duvet covers the camp. But from the ground emerge the b tone, the brick, the stone, the barbel, the wood, and all these materials that constituted this camp not so long ago where more than a million humans have died
Lucille Crespin, the fifth of 1 re S, high school student at Pierre Mend in La Roche-sur-Yon (85)
�� The rails are very impressive, on one hand, by their length and on the other hand, by their history. It is difficult to put words on what one feels when faced with this gigantic tense, but it is this place that one understands the immensity of the camp and especially the scale and horror of the crime.
Charlotte, the fifth of 1 re ES, high school and Saint Francis of Sales d Evreux (27).
When one looks at a book, one sees only images, abstract photos, but when one is confronted with the real, when one finds oneself in front of the camp gates, in the barracks, one can cross-check what one covers with what one has learned in class.
Laetitia Rainot, the fifth of 1 re S of the high school program Gabriel Faur de Foix (09).
This trip is a trip to the land of the dead that does not teach life, respect life. This trip made me want to live a little stronger.
David, fifth year of Terminale L, high school and middle school from Lyon (69).
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