Projects of the year 2008-2009: 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).
��I feel the sometimes difficult need to convey what I heard, what I understood. If this diary does not touch any member of my family, it is a crime that concerns me because it affects all humanity. I am aware of being a little fragile certainly, but a little finite. Remaining inactive after being at Auschwitz seems impossible and unimaginable to me.
Blandine, high school and 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 wish to pay tribute to three generations of a same family that lived near our high school. D nonc s by a neighbor, arr t s by the Gestapo on February 20, 1944, they murdered him here on March 10, 1944. To Mr. Maurice Kaufman and his father Marie, their daughter Marguerite Laurenti of 21 years old and his grandson on Georges Laurenti who had just turned three. They all left by convoy 69 from Drancy as 1501 of port s and they are among the 1311 people murdered immediately. We name them so as not to forget them, so as not to forget.
" Text read in front of the international monument of Birkenau by the l ves of 1 re ST2S from the high school and honor of Estienne d Orves de Nice.
� A painful confrontation with the horror of the Jewish enemy, the shocking mockings of the rescaps, the visit to a place full of violence that was the source of Nazi hatred lead us to question human nature and the permanent threat that lies on it-here Images that will never leave our m moors, words that will ring for a long time in us, an incomprehension that will remain in our t tes, the visit to the Auschwitz camp is an unforgettable experience that transforms the vision that each one has of life.
Herveline, Terminale L, lyc e Saint-Martin, Angers (49).
When one comes out of Auschwitz, one feels an immense powerlessness and emerges with even more questions than when one enters there: one wonders about humanity entirely.
Marion, 1 re ES, high school and Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
Before completely leaving the camp, I turned around and saw this immense camp, bordered by bombs and organized for industrial assassination and I really realized that all of this had actually existed.
Cl ment, 1 re ES, lyc e Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
This journey leaves, in our heart, an indescribable mark.
Nawal, 1 re ES, high school and Val de Durance, Pertuis (84).
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