QUESTIONNAIRE 2, DISTRIBUTED TO THE STUDENTS
OF 2
It was not possible, for time reasons, to analyze the responses of the students from 2
The questions, prepared by the 1
1/ What does the name Auschwitz evoke for 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 numbers of the victims?
5/ What does the expression 'duty of memory' 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 that doubt the relevance of organizing a one-day trip for school children to Auschwitz. What do you think?
The answers of the ElEves:
N°1:
1/ The name Auschwitz evokes for me an extermination camp, built in the 1930s. it is the 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 detainees 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 resorted to 'Zyklon B' to have a higher elimination yield.
4/ 7 000 000 000
5/ This is what one must remember. For me, "duty of memory" means an important page in modern History. One must not forget, in order 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 to approach reality. However, there is not only Auschwitz, and taking a one-day trip seems a bit superficial to me.
I admit that it is an essential and enriching cultural journey, which is not within the reach of everyone.
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 the people sent to these two camps die at one time or another.
4/ Several million deaths.
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6/ Memory: something serious from a fairly close past.
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8/ I wouldn’t really like to visit there to see what was done to the Jews.
N° 3:
1/ One of the largest concentration camps of the Second World War.
2/ Auschwitz is located 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 there are people who are not able to work such as the disabled, the elderly...
4/ No.
5/ That it is important to remember what happened 60 years ago now.
6/
7/ Shocking images.
8/ A very interesting experience.
N° 4:
1/ The name Auschwitz evokes for me, an awful period when the Nazis were in power. This name reminds me of the construction of concentration and extermination camps.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps are camps where people work and extermination camps, it is where people are killed.
4/ There are many victims, but I cannot give an exact figure.
5/ I think that 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 must be careful and not put just anyone in power.
6/ I don’t know. Maybe History, we learn it and forget it quickly, while Memory remains for life.
7/ I would like the film to properly evoke the history of Auschwitz, but also to show what people think, especially young people, because they teach us about history and talk about concentration camps, but it’s very scholastic without talking about emotions and feelings.
8/ Very well, I think it’s important.
N° 5:
1/ It is one of the deadliest concentration and extermination camps during the Second World War.
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 is an enriching experience.
N° 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 inhuman conditions.
4/ 4 million Jews exterminated.
5/ Future generations must not forget, so that the horror does not start again.
6/ Memory: do not forget important things.
History: Study of the past.
7/ Raise awareness of the horror.
8/ Traveling? It would be hard, very hard...
N° 8:
1/ Auschwitz evokes a place of suffering, a concentration camp, during the war.
2/ It is in Poland.
3/ I think that a concentration camp is a camp where the "prisoners" do forced labor, thus moral and physical suffering, whereas an extermination camp executes the prisoners directly.
4/ I don’t know the numbers, but I know they are important, about five million.
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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 arriving 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 History classes, despite the videos, one cannot imagine and realize what happened, while on the spot, it is much more realistic and expressive.
N° 9:
1/ Nothing.
2/ No.
3/ No.
4/ No.
5/ I don’t know.
6/ ... ?
7/ That he expresses horror, that he leaves a mark on people’s minds and be moving. May it allow viewers to become aware of the extent that discrimination can take, so that this nightmare never happens again.
8/ Good idea, allows to raise awareness among young people.
N° 10:
1/ Auschwitz is the suffering of men. For me, it is the place where men have suffered the most.
2/ Germany.
3/ There is not really any difference, because in the concentration camp they made people work until death, there were very few who stayed alive. In the extermination camp, people found death there too. One can also find a difference between the two camps: the concentration camp is the suffering of work, while the extermination camp: they were killed on the spot.
4/ I cannot say the exact number, but the death toll is too great to forget this 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 a thought, but " History ", it’s written on books... It’s something that cannot be erased.
7/ Excerpts from Auschwitz, cut by interviews with students.
8/ To deepen our knowledge, it’s rather good.
N° 11:
1/ A "quick death". An extermination center where millions of dead were killed for no precise reason.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Poland, I believe.
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 the prison.
4/ 6,000,000 of exterminated Jews, 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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8/ I think that a day in Auschwitz allows one to realize the horror like here. Even if the images or photos shock, visiting the camp is beneficial to not lose in mind what happened. Still, a good documentary can be just as beneficial.
N° 12:
1/ The ability of man 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 "redress" the political enemy or other, rather than simply massacring them en masse.
4/ No, I know that it amounts to millions in the world, but that’s all...
5/ It is necessary to teach the new generations about Aryan horror and Jewish genocide (among others...), hoping that this will prevent it from happening again in the future.
6/ History changes according to the leaders and the times, memory remains personal.
7/ That he makes a good assessment of 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 mark, but a documentary can also be striking in the end.
N° 13:
1/ Thousands of deaths, concentration camps.
2/ Yes, in Germany.
3/ No.
4/ No.
5/ Do not forget, always remember, it 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.
N° 14:
1/ A huge concentration camp. It evokes the death of many Jews, hatred, fear, humiliation of many lives, wickedness.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Germany.
3/ Concentration camps are camps where the most resistant Jews work for the Nazis. They are locked up, we give them almost nothing to eat. Many Jews die from exhaustion.
Extermination camps are camps where the least resistant Jews, namely women, children, and elderly people, are killed in gas chambers. And after, they are transformed 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 were many deaths and many lives shattered by the memory of their bad conditions in the camps.
5/ We must remember not to start again.
6/ " Memory ", it is to remember, to remind future generations of what happened. Not to forget.
" History " is saying everything that happened and in what context.
7/ Let this film touch our conscience.
8/
N° 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 located 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 have been millions of victims (too many).
5/ For me, this expression involves the student in bringing past events (testimonies, films, photos, etc...) up to date.
6/ I think that 'History' is a fixed opinion that cannot be debated, unlike 'Memoirs' which are the subjects of 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 that in just one day, there is not enough time to understand everything
N° 16:
1/ This evokes for me the symbol of Jewish extermination and the power of Nazism.
2/ This is located in the North-East of Germany.
3/ The concentration camps were labor camps, then came the extermination camps for those who no longer served any purpose and who were eliminated.
4/ About 6 million Jews.
5/ This means that it is our 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 the memories of people or some events that might 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 calm); 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.
N° 17:
1/ Terror. Suffering. Injustice.
2/ Poland.
3/ Concentration camps: labour camps.
Extermination camps: genocide (gassed on the field)
4/ In general: 60 million. And I am 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 have occurred, to warn young people nowadays. 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 suspect a little).
8/ I think it’s very good! They are incredibly lucky to have been able to set foot where there was so much horror. It’s a very good way to feel (even if there is no view of the corpses), the suffering they have endured. Knowing is good, but seeing is better. Especially more touching.
N° 18:
1/ Extermination and concentration camps, thousands of dead, Second World War.
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.
N° 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 we remember.
7/ I don’t know.
8/ A good idea, to see what this place could look like and the memory that it remains there.
N° 20:
1/ The concentration camps, war 39-45.
2/ Auschwitz is located 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 do not know the exact numbers of the victims, but I know that there are several thousand.
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 am waiting for the movie of the 1
8/ I think that a day at Auschwitz would make me reflect on what the victims might have felt at that moment.
N° 21:
1/ Auschwitz is a concentration camp where several thousand people have been grouped together to work like madmen.
Auschwitz evokes death, terror, horror.
2/ Auschwitz is in Poland.
3/ Concentration camps are places where able-bodied people have been grouped together to perform (forced) labor.
The extermination camps were used to kill in the gas chambers old people, children, the disabled...
Once killed, these people went to crematory ovens to burn.
4/ There were about 6 million deaths, of which I believe 1 million 200,000 at Auschwitz.
6/ The 'memory' is about 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 one must 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 "testify" of the horror that reigned there.
N° 22:
1/ Auschwitz evokes for me the War, the concentration and extermination camps.
2/ Auschwitz, I think is 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/ Many, but I don’t know the number.
5/ "Duty of memory" means for me to pay tribute to all the people killed during this war.
6/ Memory: to remember great past events.
History: facts that happened, several years ago chronologically.
7/ I don’t know.
8/ I think it is rather instructive and that the Firsts were able to realize many things they did not imagine as hard.
N° 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.
N° 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 famine, the ruthless living conditions, unbearable.
2/ Auschwitz is located in the southeast of Germany.
3/ Concentration camps are the camps where people are held before being transferred to extermination camps to be killed there.
4/ No, not exactly, but there have been a lot.
5/ The expression of memory for me and always remembering what people have been able to do 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/ The '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 that this is good to show young people the place where one could do so much harm.
N° 25:
1/ The Auschwitz camp reminds me of death, hatred, shame.
2/ Auschwitz is located in Poland.
3/ In a concentration camp, people worked there to be killed (granite extraction in the Vosges), in an extermination camp, not the people, but the units were sent there for the sole purpose of being killed.
4/ Probably several millions.
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 ultimately, the Nazis were also victims of who they were (which they are unfortunately too). We always live in 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. The wounds go away over time, but not with vinegar.
6/ Memory, a thing one must remember, but also forgotten by acceptance or forgiveness. On the personal level, what we will call memory is something that has happened, that we regret, that we would have liked to do again to change it.
History, something we must know in order to understand the future. On the 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 to 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 refuses it.
8/ Auschwitz is not an amusement park, but a place where victims of hatred died. Showing young people how far Man can go only, in my opinion, reinforces their hatred towards their peers, a source of egocentrism. However, the pedagogical and human message can have the opposite effect.
The trip is certainly a good initiative, but it is necessary to know who is sensitive, who will understand the message of this trip.
Personally, I think that Auschwitz should be razed and that its dead should finally rest in peace.
N° 26:
1/ A concentration camp (or extermination) 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 the occupants (gas chambers...)
4/ Yes, in general, but not the exact number of victims at Auschwitz.
5/ That this story should not be forgotten, everyone must know what happened.
6/ Memory: duty not to forget this period.
History: duty to tell it.
7/ That he be talkative, but not pompous. That he be punchy but not shocking. That he be well illustrated, not just interviews.
8/ I find it very educational, enriching, it’s very good. It allows for, perhaps, a better understanding and realization of these years.
N° 27:
1/ evokes in me horror and sadness and I think of everything 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 upon their arrival.
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 go to the place because we could really realize, but in one day it’s a long journey.
N° 28:
1/ Auschwitz was an extermination camp during the Nazi period.
2/ Auschwitz-Birkenau is located in Poland
3/ A concentration camp is a work and detention camp.
An extermination camp is a camp intended for the most dangerous opponents of the regime and primarily for the Jews, first gassed, 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/ The History relates the lived facts and the main dates that must be remembered. The Memory concerns the facts related by witnesses.
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8/ It would be a very good thing for everyone, especially for the ignorant (but can we really be ignorant?). We will never remember it enough.
N° 29:
1/ Auschwitz: extermination camp: terror.
2/ Germany.
3/ Yes, concentration camps are places where victims are gathered, they are held prisoners and extermination camps are places where victims are killed (gas chambers).
4/ No, but very important.
5/ The 'duty to remember' allows people who have lived through wars to tell them to future generations, which would help not to forget.
6/ "Memory": it is passed on from generation to generation, while "History" is learned at school.
7/ To be shocked, touched.
8/ Very interesting, shocking, impactful.
