Participate in the trip

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

The approach

Between January and March 2013, the Holocaust Memorial is organizing six one-day study trips to Auschwitz and one three-day study trip to Krakow and Auschwitz as part of a national programme initiated and funded by the Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust.

These study trips are intended for students in the first and last year of public and private contract education. They are addressed only to whole classes, accompanied by two teachers, within the limit of one class per school. They are supervised by historians of the Holocaust Memorial, and take place as far as possible in the presence of former deportees.

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

It is the responsibility of the teaching teams concerned to carry out a pedagogical project in which the study trip is included. 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 involvement over time and to materialize the knowledge and reactions aroused by the discovery of the site of Auschwitz. It will also reach a wider audience than just the study trip participants.

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

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

Indicative schedule

Wednesday 14 January 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 12 March 2015 from Montpellier.(sous r serve)

Wednesday 18 March 2015 from Nantes.

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

Program

• - Meet at 5 am at the airport (departure from regional cities)
• - Departure to Krakow by plane
• - Arrival in Krakow around 9:30 am
• - Transfer Krakow-Auschwitz by bus
• - Historical tour of the site of Auschwitz II-Birkenau
• - Lunch break (not provided)
• - D Auschwitz I camp and its museum
• - Transfer Auschwitz-Krakow by bus
• - Return in the evening from 11 pm to 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 staff of the Holocaust Memorial and Polish guides.

The selected classes undertake to participate in a day of preparation at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris before 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:

• Holocaust Memorial
• Study Travel Program
• 17, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier
• 75004 Paris

Download the registration form in PDF format

Download the registration file in Word format

For further information, please contact Charlotte Le Provost:

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

Deadline for registration: varies according to the academies

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

A response will be sent in late November 2012.