Pedagogical projects of the year 2009-2010: 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.
��We cross the rails where millions of people arrived, living their last moments without being aware of it. The camp is white, covered by a thick layer of snow. We walk along the rails with the direction towards the back of the camp: the gas chamber.
Caroline Rupert, Lyc e Marc Bloch, Bischheim (67)
��In Birkenau, we followed the rails of the Judenrampe (the railway through which convoys of Jews arrived). It is this place that the SS carried out the selection of ports: those who were going to die directly or those who were going to die slowly, while working. Then our guide led us to the ruins of the ancient furnaces, four in number. Those who condemned the direct lextermination therefore did not pass through the camp itself but took a path that bypassed the camp. They were therefore not physically crossing the camp.
Abiga l Moeschler, Lyc e Lamartine, M con (71)
" This trip made me discover what is not in the textbooks.
J r me Wurtz, Lyc e Marc Bloch, Bischheim. (67)
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