Prepare one’s trip

• • Educational projects
• • Travelling exhibitions
• • Administrative formalities

Educational projects

The preparation work is a fundamental step before the study trip to Auschwitz.

It allows students to strengthen their knowledge of the historical mechanisms that led to the programmed extermination of 5 to 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

The Shoah Memorial site offers a series of documentary resources to which classes can refer:

• - the answers to frequently asked questions about the Holocaust
• - video testimonies of Auschwitz camp survivors
• - a reminder of the key dates of the period 1939-1945
• - the multimedia encyclopedia of the Shoah
• - historical maps

The Shoah Memorial has also produced two brochures for students and teachers. He is at the disposal of educational teams to provide them with pedagogical and historical support:

• Alban Perrin, study tour coordinator
• - Tel. 01 53 01 17 18
• - contact Alban Perrin by email

Travelling exhibitions

The Shoah Memorial offers two traveling exhibitions free of charge to selected classes for a maximum duration of 7 days. The transport and insurance costs are borne by the establishments.

- Words of stars. Memory of hidden children, 1939-1945, 2 formats: 33 panels 67.5 x 1.12 or 34 panels 0.90 x 1.49

- History of the Shoah in Europe, 44 panels 1.40 x 40 and 80 x 1.00.

For any information and reservation, contact:

• Caroline François, in charge of traveling exhibitions
• contact Caroline François by email
• Tel. 01 53 01 17 09

Administrative formalities

It is imperative that all participants have a valid identity document to travel to Poland: identity card or passport. Students and accompanying persons who are not nationals of a member country of the Schengen area must also be in possession of their residence permit on French territory.