Participate in the trip

• • The approach
• • Indicative schedule
• • Program
• • Participation
• • Practical information

The approach

The Shoah Memorial organizes, between January and March 2013, six one-day study trips to Auschwitz camp and one of three days: Krakow and Auschwitz, as part of a national program initiated and funded by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.

These study trips are intended for students in the first and final years of public and private education under contract. They are intended only for entire classes, accompanied by two teachers, within the limit of one class per establishment. They are supervised by historians from the Shoah Memorial, and take place as far as possible in the presence of former deportees.

For the 2012-2013 school year, this program is open to the following seven academies: Aix-Marseille, Caen, Grenoble, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

It is up to the interested teaching teams to carry out an educational project in which the study tour fits. This project presents the approach adopted, the actions that will be carried out with the class before and after the trip to Poland, as well as the various planned achievements (exhibition, film, website, writing workshop...).

Its objective is to contribute to the preparation of students, to participate in their motivation, to strengthen their long-term involvement and to materialize the knowledge and reactions elicited by the discovery of the Auschwitz site. It will also enable a wider audience to be reached than just the participants of the study tour.

The theme chosen, directly linked to the history of the extermination of European Jews, could be for example a research on deported high school students or people arrested in the city where the establishment is located during the Second World War.

Particular attention will be paid to the interdisciplinarity of projects and to the effective investment of students in the development of content.

Indicative calendar

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 from Caen.

Wednesday 4 February 2015 from Marseille.

Thursday, 5 February 2015 from Nice.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 from Strasbourg.

Wednesday 11 March 2015 from Toulouse.

Thursday, March 12, 2015 from Montpellier.(under r serve)

Wednesday 18 March 2015 from Nantes.

4 days: from Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 March 2015 from Grenoble.

Program

• - Appointment at 5 a.m. at the airport (from regional cities)
• - Departure to Krakow by plane
• - Arrival in Krakow around 9:30 a.m.
• - Transfer from Krakow to Auschwitz by bus
• - Historical tour of the site of Auschwitz II-Birkenau
• - Lunch break (not provided)
• - Cover of the Auschwitz I camp and its museum
• - Auschwitz-Krakow transfer by bus
• - Return in the evening from 11 p.m. at the departure airport

Participation

A contribution to the costs of 50 euros per person, students and teachers, is requested (except for specific regions). It includes transportation, breakfast and a hot meal served on the plane, accompaniment by the staff of the Shoah Memorial and Polish guides.

The selected classes commit to participate in a preparation day at the Shoah Memorial in Paris ahead of the trip. The cost of travel to Paris will be covered under this programme.

Practical information

To participate in these trips, please return the registration form duly completed and detailing your educational project to:

• Shoah Memorial
• Study tour programme
• 17, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier
• 75004 Paris

Download the registration file in PDF format

Download the registration form in Word format

For further information, please contact Charlotte Le Provost:

• - Tel: 01 53 01 17 83
• - send an email to Charlotte Le Provost

Registration deadline: variable according to the academies

Registrations will be taken into account according to the quality of the educational project presented.

A reply will be communicated at the end of November 2012.