Educational projects of the year 2007-2008: videos

Return from the underworld

To prepare for the study trip, the students of Terminale L from the high school and Kl ber in Strasbourg read drafts from the reading sheets, such as the works of Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben in philosophy, watching excerpts from Shoah by Claude Lanzmann and meeting three former port s: Janine Blum, Jean Samuel and Shlomo Venezia, survivor of the Sonderkommando at Birkenau. After covering the site of Auschwitz, they created a 15-minute film entitled Return from Beyond. A screening open to parents opened in the May 30, 2008. A meeting with the German l ves of Kehl’s Einstein high school was also organized.

Lyc e Kl ber Strasbourg (67)

Auschwitz-Birkenau, December 11, 2007

Before the study trip, the students of the final year BEP of the professional high school Camille Claudel from Lyon studied in class the Second World War, Nazi identification, the Vichy Revolution and the history of the Shoah. They read Auschwitz explained to my daughter by Annette Wieviorka and If it is a man by Primo Levi, from the places of memory of the Shoah Lyon, visit the House of Izieu and the Center for the History of Resistance and Portation. Upon their return, they presented an exhibition and realized a film, accompanied by a booklet of texts and photographs.

Professional high school Camille Claudel Lyon (69)

Auschwitz trip

A class of 1 re S from the agricultural high school in Angers-le-Fresne traveled through the Auschwitz camp on March 27, 2008 accompanied by a rescap, Ginette Kolinka, from port e on April 13, 1944 with her father, her grand-brother and a nephew. From the images shot on site, they created a film of more than 30 minutes giving a large place to his testimony in the barracks of the Birkenau women’s camp.

Agricultural High School of Angers-le-Fresne (49)

Auschwitz

After the trip of study Auschwitz, the lives of 1 re L from the high school Vuillaume de Mirecourt have created an exhibition on Primo Levi and a DVD, containing in particular the interview with a Righteous among the nations, France Giet, met his home one month before his disappearance. The work of the class took place on May 9, 2008 in the auditorium of the high school.

Lyc e Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Mirecourt (88)

Yvette’s testimony L vy

Before leaving for Poland, the l ves of 1 re L and STG of the high school Les R collets de Longwy studied the journey of Jacqueline Bloch, a young girl from their city, from port e and assassin e Auschwitz in 1944. On March 18, 2008, they covered the remains of the camp accompanied by a rescap of convoy no. 77, Yvette L vy. Upon their return, they created a CD-ROM containing a slideshow about the life of Jacqueline Bloch and images from their study trip.

Priv school complex of R collets Longwy (54)

Study trip to Auschwitz

Upon returning from the trip to study Auschwitz, the lives of 1 re L of high school student Thomas Corneille de Barentin have created an exhibition and a fifteen-minute film entitled: A journey in the footsteps of history. A joint project was carried out with the students of 1 re L of high school Raymond Queneau d'Yvetot at the end of which the productions of the two classes were presented to the parents of the students on June 3, 2008, in the presence of the general educational inspector of history-graphy.

Lyc e Thomas Corneille Barentin (76)