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The questions, developed by the 1
1/ What does the name Auschwitz mean to you?
2/ Do you know where Auschwitz is?
3/ Do you make the difference between extermination camps and concentration camps?
4/ Do you know the figures for the victims?
5/ What does the expression "memory duty" mean to you?
6/ What difference do you make (if you make one) between History and Memory?
7/ We are going to make a film about our trip to Auschwitz. What would you expect from such a film?
8/ Many voices are raised at the moment which doubt the relevance of organizing a one-day trip for schoolchildren to Auschwitz. What do you think?
The answers of ElEves:
N°1:
1/ The name Auschwitz evokes for me an extermination camp, built in the 1930s. It is a symbol of Nazi barbarism and fascism. But it is also "the factory of death", where people entered, but did not leave. Finally, it is the emblem of a hierarchical administration.
2/ Auschwitz is currently in Poland
3/ Concentration camps: camps in which the inmates worked hard. The goal is to eliminate at "low heat".
Extermination camps: the concentration camps were no longer sufficient to empty and eliminate, so we used "Zyklon B" to have a higher elimination yield.
4/ 7 000 000 000
5/ This is what one must necessarily remember. For me, "duty of memory" means an important page in modern history. We must not forget, so as not to start again ".
6/ History is facts. Memory is the life of these events.
7/ A truly complete film dealing once and for all with "Auschwitz and its surroundings".
8/ This day (I think) had an educational value, and allowed us to approach reality. However, it’s not just Auschwitz, and taking a day trip seems a bit superficial to me.
I admit that it is an essential and enriching cultural journey, which is not within everyone’s reach.
N°2:
1/ I think that at Auschwitz there was a large extermination camp during the Second World War.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Poland or Germany.
3/ No, because people sent to these two camps die at some point.
4/ Several million dead.
5/
6/ Memory: something serious from a rather close past.
7/
8/ I wouldn’t really like to pay a visit there to see what was done to the Jews.
No. 3:
1/ One of the largest concentration camps in World War II.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ A concentration camp is a place where people work and an extermination camp is a place where people from a concentration camp are gassed and burned. In general, those who go are people who are not fit to work such as the disabled, the elderly...
4/ No.
5/ That it is important to remember what happened 60 years ago.
6/
7/ Shocking images.
8/ A very interesting experience.
No. 4:
1/ The name Auschwitz evokes for me, a terrible period when the Nazis were in power. This name reminds me of the construction of concentration and extermination camps.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps are camps where people work and extermination camps are where people are killed.
4/ There are many victims, but I cannot give an exact figure.
5/ I think the expression means that we must not forget what happened; Finally, for my part and according to my classes and the images I saw, I could not forget. It’s very shocking but very interesting and even we realize that we have to be careful and not put anyone in power.
6/ I don’t know. Maybe we learn about history and quickly forget it, while memory remains for life.
7/ I would like the film to evoke well the history of Auschwitz, but also to show what people and especially young people think, because we are taught history and talk about concentration camps, but it’s very academic without talking about emotions and feelings.
8/ Very well, I think it’s important.
No. 5:
1/ It is one of the deadliest concentration and extermination camps during World War II.
2/ Poland.
3/ A concentration camp: the prisoners work like slaves but all end up dying
An extermination camp: the detainees are directly killed in gas chambers or others.
4/ About 6 million people were killed during this war, in the camps.
5/ This expression means that through time, we must not forget this dark part of history.
6/ No difference.
7/ Shocking images to show us the reality of the camps.
8/ raised awareness among teenagers about this massacre. It was a rewarding experience.
No. 6:
1/ Concentration camps: Jews, disabled, homosexuals. During the reign of Hitler.
2/ Poland.
3/ Extermination camps: to kill
Concentration camps: to force people to work in inhumane conditions.
4/ 4 million Jews exterminated.
5/ Future generations must not forget, so that the horror does not start again.
6/ Memory: don’t forget important things.
History: Study of the past.
7/ Make people aware of the horror.
8/ Traveling? It would be hard, very hard...
No. 8:
1/ Auschwitz evokes a place of suffering, a concentration camp, during the war.
2/ It’s in Poland.
3/ I think that a concentration camp is a camp where "prisoners" do forced labor, thus causing moral and physical suffering, whereas an extermination camp is directly killing prisoners.
4/ I don’t know the figures, but I know they are important, about five million.
5/
6/ I think that "memory" concerns those who have lived it, who know and feel what happened, while "history" is the event told and learned to generations arrived after.
7/ That he knows how to transcribe the horror and suffering that human people have experienced.
8/ I think it’s very good, because during the History classes, despite the videos, you can’t imagine and realize what happened, whereas on the scene, it’s much more realistic and expressive.
No. 9:
1/ Nothing.
2/ No.
3/ No
4/ No.
5/ I don’t know.
6/ ...?
7/ That he expresses horror, that he makes an impression and is moving. That it allows viewers to become aware of the extent that discrimination can take, so that this nightmare never happens again.
8/ Good idea, helps raise awareness among young people.
No. 10:
1/ Auschwitz is the suffering of men. For me, it is the place where men have suffered the most.
2/ Germany.
3/ There isn’t really any difference, because in the concentration camp they made people work to death; very few stayed alive. In the extermination camp, people found death there too. We can also find a difference between the two camps: the concentration camp is the suffering of labor, while the extermination camp: they were killed instantly.
4/ I can’t say the exact number, but the death toll is too high to forget that era.
5/ "Duty of memory" is to keep a small thought for all the people who have been massacred, who have suffered.
6/ "Memory ", it’s us who keep them in mind, but "History" is written on books... That’s something you can’t erase.
7/ Excerpts from Auschwitz, cut by interviews with students.
8/ To deepen our knowledge is rather good.
No. 11:
1/ A "hasty" death site. An extermination center where millions of dead were killed for no specific reason.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Poland, I think.
3/ The extermination and concentration camps are internment camps. Even if in these concentration camps, there is no mass extermination. Whether one is in a concentration camp or an extermination camp, it’s still a penal colony.
4/ 6,000,000 Jews exterminated, I believe.
5/ The duty of remembrance is to perpetuate the learning to new generations of what happened during the Second World War and therefore of the Nazi genocide.
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7/
8/ I think that a day at Auschwitz allows one to realize the horror as here. Even if the images or photos are shocking, visiting the camp is beneficial in order not to lose sight of what happened. Still, a good documentary can be just as beneficial.
No. 12:
1/ Man’s ability to massacre his fellow men for an ideology.
2/ It seems to me in Poland...
3/ The result is often the same, but the concentration camp is often used to "right" the political or other enemy, rather than simply massacring it massively.
4/ No, I know that it amounts to millions in the world, but that’s all...
5/ It is necessary to teach new generations the Aryan horror and the Jewish genocide (among others...), hoping that this will prevent it from happening in the future.
6/ History changes according to the leaders and the times, the memory remains personal.
7/ That he takes a good look at what remains of this era in terms of mentality. Fewer "mounds of corpses" sequences. More stories on the German side.
8. Important to make a lasting impression, but a documentary can also be memorable in the end.
No. 13:
1/ Thousands of dead, concentration camps.
Yes, in Germany.
3/ No
4/ No.
5/ Do not forget, always remember is a duty, in tribute to the victims.
6/ I don’t do it.
7/ That he explains the living conditions.
8/ Well, in order to realize what happened, to have an idea of the living conditions, of the difficulty, not to forget what happened, to pay tribute to the victims.
No. 14:
1/ A huge concentration camp. It evokes the death of many Jews, hatred, fear, the humiliation of many lives, and malice.
2/ Auschwitz is in Germany.
3/ Concentration camps are camps where the most resistant Jews work for the Nazis. They are locked up, they are given almost nothing to eat. Many Jews die from exhaustion.
Extermination camps are camps where the least resistant Jews, women, children and elderly people are killed in gas chambers. And then they are turned into soap.
Upon their arrival in the camps, the Jews are dispossessed of their personal belongings and they are naked. And they are named by numbers like for animals.
4/ No, but there have been many deaths and many lives shattered by the memory of their bad conditions in the camps.
5/ We have to remember so as not to start again.
6/ "Memory" is to remember, to remind future generations of what happened. Not to forget.
" History " is saying everything that happened and in what context.
7/ That this film touches our consciousness.
8/
No. 15:
1/ Auschwitz evokes for me the extermination center of the Jews set up by the Germans during the war. It is a symbol of German domination.
2/ Auschwitz is in Germany.
3/ I think that the concentration camp is a place of detention where prisoners are immobilized, while extermination is a symbol of murder and assassination.
4/ There were millions of victims (too many).
5/ For me, this expression involves the student updating past events (testimonies, films, photos, etc...)
6/ I think that "History" is a fixed opinion that cannot be debated, unlike "Memoirs," which are subject to controversy.
7/ That they transcribe to the maximum the "truth", the fear, the situation in which the Jews were treated.
8/ I think the principle of a site visit is good, but in one day there isn’t enough time to understand everything
No. 16:
1/ To me, this evokes the symbol of Jewish extermination and the power of Nazism.
2/ This is in the northeast of Germany.
3/ The concentration camps were labor camps, then came the extermination camps for those who were no longer useful and who were eliminated.
4/ About 6 million Jews.
5/ This means that we have a duty to prevent these massacres from being repeated by reminding future generations of these incidents.
6/ The difference may be that history includes all past events, whereas memory is about people’s memories or a few events that may have been forgotten.
7/ The facts that marked the students; the atmosphere in 1942 (during the war) and now (how one perceives Auschwitz, now that it is quiet); the feelings one can have when entering this "mythical" place.
8/ This makes the "duty of memory" persist, but it is too short (in time) to study this place.
No. 17:
1/ Terror. Suffering. Injustice.
2/ Poland.
3/ Concentration camps: labour camps.
Extermination camps: genocide (gassed on the spot)
4/ In general: 60 million. And I’m not sure, Auschwitz: 1 million 700
5/ The duty of remembrance is an important act, because it is necessary to remember the terror and horror that occurred, to warn the young people of our days. It is a form of respect for those who have suffered in injustice.
6/ Memory: form of respect, mourning...
History: the facts.
7/ New anecdotes, I would like to discover even more things, to know what they did and felt when they were in Auschwitz (even if I have a little suspicion).
8/ I think it’s very good! They are incredibly lucky to have been able to set foot where there has been so much horror. It’s a very good way to feel (even if there is no view of the corpses), the suffering they endured. Knowing is good, but seeing is better. Above all, more touching.
No. 18:
1/ Extermination and concentration camps, thousands of dead, World War II.
2/ It seems to me that it is in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps: they work, they are prisoners.
Extermination camps: they die
4/Several millions.
5/ Obligation to have a thought for the dead.
6/ Memory: remember the dead especially.
History: more global, we tell the whole story of the Second World War, not just the dead.
7/ A realistic film that is moving and reflects the people who were there, their feelings.
8/ Maybe, but over several days.
No. 19:
1/ Auschwitz evokes the death of thousands of people.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ No
4/ Several millions.
5/ Keep the memory of the extermination of all these people.
6/ History: what happened; Memory: what is remembered.
7/ I don’t know.
8/ A good idea, to see what this place could look like and the memory that it remains there.
No. 20:
1/ The concentration camps, war 39-45.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps are places where prisoners are sent to work.
The extermination camps are killing centers. Prisoners were sent there to kill them (crematorium, gas chamber...)
4/ I don’t know the exact numbers of the victims, but I know that there are several thousands.
5/ Tribute to the survivors and victims of war.
6/ Memory: these are the testimonies of the survivors.
History: everything that happened during this period in general.
7/ I’m waiting for the movie of 1
8/ I think that a day at Auschwitz would make me reflect on what the victims might have felt at that time.
No. 21:
1/ Auschwitz is a concentration camp where several thousand people were grouped together to work like madmen.
Auschwitz evokes death, terror and horror.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps are places where able-bodied people have been gathered to perform (forced) labor.
Extermination camps were used to kill old people, children, the disabled in gas chambers...
Once killed, these people went to crematoria to burn.
4/ There were about 6 million deaths, of which I believe 1.2 million at Auschwitz.
6/ The "memory" reveals memories, testimonies, while history is told with real numbers, real dates...
7/ A film that mixes both memory and History.
8/ That’s good, but you have to be interested in history and the past. Some go there out of "interest." Auschwitz is not a campsite and if we have to go there, it is for a very specific purpose, that is, to be able afterwards "to bear witness" to the horror that reigned there.
No. 22:
1/ Auschwitz evokes for me the War, the concentration and extermination camps.
2/ Auschwitz, I think it’s in Germany.
3/ A concentration camp was the place where people were, during the war, deported to work; whereas in an extermination camp people were killed directly (gas chambers).
4/ A lot, but I don’t know the number.
5/ "Duty of memory" means for me to pay tribute to all those killed during this war.
6/ Memory: to remember major past events.
History: events that happened several years ago, chronologically speaking.
7/ I don’t know.
8/ I think it is rather instructive and that the First were able to realize many things they did not imagine as hard.
No. 23:
1/ Extermination camp
2/ Germany
3/ Concentration: work
Extermination: death
4/ No, but a lot.
5/ Obligation to those who have died or suffered, to remember so that it does not happen again.
6/ Memory: memory, more precise, closer.
History: culture, testimony of the past, global.
7/
8/ Too short.
No. 24:
1/ The name of Auschwitz evokes for me the extermination camps, the war, the millions of Jews exterminated because of a single man, Hitler. The construction of concentration camps with starvation, relentless living conditions unlivable.
2/ Auschwitz is located in southeastern Germany.
3/ Concentration camps are the camps where people are held before being transferred to the extermination camps to be killed.
4/ No, not exactly, but there were a lot of them.
5/ The expression of memory for me and always remembering what people may have done so that it never happens again. So that over generations we don’t forget what our ancestors may have done to other people under the command of a man.
6/ "Memory" is the act of remembering what happened, and history is...
7/ I would wait for him to show us what remains of the Auschwitz camps, and I would like him to tell us more in detail about what happened.
8/ I think this is good to show young people where so much harm has been done.
No. 25:
1/ The Auschwitz camp evokes for me death, hatred and shame.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ In a concentration camp, people worked there to be killed (extraction of granite in the Vosges), in an extermination camp, not people, but units were brought there for the sole purpose of being killed.
4/ Probably several million.
5/ Duty of memory means, for me, the inability to evolve, to turn the page, to forgive. The Jews were killed for what they were, for what they thought. But in the end, the Nazis were also victims of who they were (which unfortunately they are too). We still live in the fear of Nazism as long as we stir again and again in the deep wound of our heart, which we have in each one of us. Injuries go away over time, but not with vinegar.
6/ Memory, something that one must remember, but also forgotten by acceptance or forgiveness. On a personal level, what we will call memory is something that happened, that we regret, that we would have liked to redo in order to change it.
History, something we need to know in order to understand the future. On a personal level, what we will call history is all the stages through which we have passed, friends who make us who we are.
7/ There are tons of films about these camps, this story, but none that help turn the page. What am I waiting for? A film that shows, that highlights, that we are a new generation, a generation that knows what hatred is, but rejects it.
8/ Auschwitz is not an amusement park, but a place where victims of hatred have died. Showing young people how far man can go only, in my opinion, reinforces their hatred towards their fellow men, a source of egocentrism. However, the pedagogical and human message can have the opposite effect.
The trip is certainly a good initiative, but we need to know who is sensitive and who will understand the message of this trip.
Personally, I think that Auschwitz should be leveled and that its dead finally rest in peace.
No. 26:
1/ A concentration (or extermination) camp during the Second World War: horror.
He evokes all the knowledge about this period.
2/ Poland.
3/ Concentration camp: the occupants are not necessarily sentenced to death.
Extermination camps: exterminate, kill all occupants (gas chambers...)
4/ Yes, in general, but not the exact number of victims at Auschwitz.
5/ That this story must not be forgotten, everyone needs to know what happened.
6/ Memory: duty not to forget this period.
History: duty to tell it.
7/ That he is talkative, but not pompous. That he is hard-hitting but not shocking. That he is well illustrated, not just interviews.
8/ I find this very educational, enriching, it’s very good. It allows, perhaps, to better understand and achieve these years.
No. 27:
1/ reminds me of the horror and sadness and I think about all that these people had to endure.
2/ Yes. In Poland on the edge of Germany.
3/ Yes, in the concentration camps there are people who do hard work every day, whereas in the extermination camps prisoners are executed as soon as they arrive.
4/ No.
5/ This means that from generation to generation, we must continue to tell the events that happened so that no one forgets.
6/ Memory: these are memories that we experienced.
History: unlived event that is told from generation to generation.
7/ An interesting and sad film at the same time to show how important and serious what happened is.
8/ I heard that it was very interesting to visit the place because you could really see each other, but in a day it’s a long journey.
No. 28:
1/ Auschwitz was an extermination camp during the Nazi period.
2/ Auschwitz-Birkenau is located in Poland
3/ A concentration camp is a labor and detention camp.
An extermination camp is a camp intended for the regime’s most dangerous opponents and primarily for Jews, who are first gassed and then cremated.
4/ 7 million dead, including 1.5 million at Auschwitz.
5/ This means that we must remember this collective drama that concerns us all, which may have affected friends and relatives, but strangers also have the right to be remembered.
6/ History relates the events experienced and the main dates that must be remembered. The memoir concerns the events reported by witnesses.
7/
8/ It would be a very good thing for everyone, especially for the ignorant (but can you really be?). We will never remember it enough.
No. 29:
1/ Auschwitz: extermination camp: terror.
2/ Germany.
3/ Yes, concentration camps are places where the victims are gathered, they are held prisoners and extermination camps are places where the victims are killed (gas chambers).
4/ No, but very important.
5/ The "duty to remember" allows people who have experienced wars to recount them for future generations, which would help not to forget.
6/ "Memory": it is passed down from generation to generation, while "History" is learned in school.
7/ To be shocked, touched.
8/ Very interesting, shocking, impactful.
