Projects of the year 2008-2009: students' reactions
A time for exchange and discussion is generally required upon returning from the study tour to give students the opportunity to speak. The written word is also a means of expressing personal feelings and reflections. Written spontaneously or at the request of teachers, the texts of high school students testify to the impact of the trip and the meeting with former deportees.
��At Auschwitz, time stops. There are no more passes, nor futures. I had the impression that I would never leave this camp. A bubble has formed around me. The voices of others had become distant, and yet I could r p ter by heart from what I heard below. I try to talk with classmates so as not to be cut off from others and despite that, I was absent. There was nothing to say, and I no longer felt the cold of the snow, for it no longer mattered.
El ve of 1 re ES of the lyc e Jean de Lattre de Tassigny de La Roche-sur-Yon (85).
��I feel the need to be able to convey what I heard, what I understood. For me, if this close friend is not touched by any member of my family, it is a crime that concerns me because it affects the entire human race. I am aware of being a little fragile, certainly, but one that should be. To remain inactive after the war, Auschwitz seems impossible and unimaginable to me.
Blandine, Jacques Monod, Lescar (64).
"We came to Auschwitz as part of a study trip, but through the research work we undertook, we realized that we are also here with a purpose. We hold, pay tribute to, three generations of a mother’s family who lived near our school. After a neighbor’s arrest, after the Gestapo’s arrest on February 20, 1944, they found the murderer here on March 10, 1944. To Mr. Maurice Kaufman and his wife Marie, their daughter Marguerite Laurenti of 21 years old and his grandson Georges Laurenti who had just turned three. They all left by convoy 69 from Drancy as 1,501 from port s and they are among the 1,311 people who killed them immediately. We name them so as not to forget them, so as not to forget.
) Text read in front of the international monument at Birkenau by the sisters of 1 re ST2S from the Honor lyc and Estienne d'Orves de Nice.
� A painful confrontation with the reality of the horror of the harmful Jewish group, the upsetting scenes from the rescapes, the visit to a place full of violence that was the source of Nazi hatred. We wonder about human nature and the permanent threat it poses.Here, images that will never leave our mums, words that will ring for a long time within us, an incomprehension that will remain in our hearts, the visit to the Auschwitz camp is an unforgettable experience that transforms everyone’s vision of life.
Herveline, Terminale L, lyc e Saint-Martin, Angers (49).
When one emerges from Auschwitz, one feels an immense powerlessness and emerges with even more questions than when one enters there: one wonders about humanity, every emotion.
Marion, 1 re ES, lyc e Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
Before leaving the camp altogether, I turned around and saw this huge camp, limited by bars and organizations for industrial assassination, and I really wanted to know that all this had actually existed.
Cl ment, 1 re ES, Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
This journey leaves, in our heart, an indescribable mark.
Nawal, 1 re ES, lyc e Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
Kevin Lacaze - LP Charles P guy; Eysines (33)
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