Participate in the trip

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

The approach

The Shoah Memorial organizes, between January and March 2013, six one-day study trips to the Auschwitz camp and one of three days to 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 address only entire classes, accompanied by two teachers, within the limit of one class per establishment. They are supervised by historians of 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 is part. 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 different planned achievements (exhibition, film, website, writing workshop...).

Its objective is to contribute to the preparation of the 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 Auschwitz site. It will also reach a wider audience than just the study tour participants.

The chosen theme, directly linked to the history of the extermination of the Jews of Europe, may 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 the effective investment of students in the development of content.

Indicative timetable

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, 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.

Programme

• - Meeting at 5 am at the airport (from regional metropolises)
• - Departure to Krakow by plane
• - Arrival in Krakow around 9:30 am
• - Transfer Krakow-Auschwitz by bus
• - Historical tour on the site of Auschwitz II-Birkenau
• - Lunch break (not provided)
• - From the covered area of the Auschwitz I camp and its museum
• - Auschwitz-Krakow bus transfer
• - Return in the evening from 11 PM at the departure airport

Participation

A fee of 50 euros per person, students and teachers, is requested (except 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 for the Shoah Memorial in Paris ahead of the trip. The cost of travel to Paris will be covered as part of this program.

Practical information

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

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

Download the registration file in PDF format

Download the application in Word format

For further information, 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 depending on the quality of the educational project presented.

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