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1/ Before we started working on the Nazi concentration camp system, I knew that Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp. I didn’t know that Auschwitz was one of the only camps with a selection upon arrival.
2/ Yes, I knew that Auschwitz is in Poland, even if we often tend to believe that it is in Germany.
3/ Yes, I already knew the difference between concentration camp and extermination camp, but I didn’t know anything more. The table made during the course on the concentration camp system clearly explained what separates them.
4/ Of course I knew that there were many deaths at Auschwitz, but I didn’t know there were so many. One cannot expect such a large figure.
5/ The duty of memory is a way to convey this horror so that it never happens again. The goal is for survivors to tell their story so that we can perpetuate it from generation to generation. One cannot ignore such a period of history.
6/ History and Memory are two related terms. History allows us to know what happened before us, so it is the memory of the past. But, History allows us to know, while Memory allows us to remember.
7/ I have absolutely no representation on Auschwitz. I saw documents showing the camp, but I cannot imagine it before being there. I think I will be surprised when I see this camp, because we cannot imagine such an horror of ourselves.
8/ In this film, we must answer the questions that everyone has about this camp. We must also do our duty of memory, by exposing reality as it is, without cheating. We are not media, we do not seek to attract the public, but to show what Auschwitz really is.
9/ Initially, I did not wish to leave simply out of fear. Yet it seemed very interesting to me (if we can use this term). Then, I told myself that I would surely no longer have the opportunity to make such a trip. I refused at first, but now, I really want to visit this camp.
10/ I think these people are wrong. I do not see how one can doubt the relevance of such a trip, even if it is short-term. This trip can only be beneficial for students. We are looking to learn, to see the reality on this camp. We will thus be able to remember more clearly that such a horror existed. This experience is beneficial for us. Many people I know would like to be able to make this trip. We are lucky enough to be able to take this visit which will be enriching.
1/ Before the work on the Nazi concentration camp system, Auschwitz evoked for me a place where a crime against humanity had taken place. I knew that different categories of people were led there and that this camp was run by the S.S.
2/ I knew where Auschwitz is located because my college teacher, in 3
3/ I didn’t really make the difference. Extermination camp meant for me the extermination of ethnic and political groups, and the concentration camp made me think more about the gathering of suspected people and the choices to neutralize them or not.
4/ I did not know the exact number of victims. I would have answered several million and said that the Jewish population was most affected by the massacre.
5/ The expression duty of remembrance means for me the moral obligation not to forget a period of history and to know how to attach importance to it in a continuous manner. The duty to remember must perhaps be accompanied by a work of understanding, for example knowing the causes that can lead to such a dark historical event in history and everyone should be able to interpret and understand it, for example, the importance of not allowing once again the unfounded establishment of racial hatred.
6/ History is the knowledge of past events that deserve to be taken into account and Memory is the possibility of preserving information. The mind can retain memories of the past and can associate them with a representation it made of this period.
7/ Auschwitz is for me, currently [
8/ I would like to show through our film, not only the duty of memory and recognition of this period, but also show how far human beings are capable of going when they are 'conditioned' in a context of hatred.
9/ What motivated me to make this trip is the desire to know more, to deepen concretely and to become a little more aware of the functioning of the time. I also wanted to participate in this trip because I am wondering about the reaction that my classmates and I are going to have, even if we don’t know enough, I think that 'human' sensitivity will take over.
10/ I think that organizing a trip to Auschwitz is only relevant if it is accompanied by work on the Nazi concentration camp system, to be able to face a place of memory, knowing the fundamental elements about it. One must not "trivialize" such an important camp and say to go there only in order to be able to say it. Going to Auschwitz, for me, is wanting to open your eyes to a reality and perhaps learn a necessary lesson from it.
1/ Auschwitz, I knew it was an extermination camp, but it was vague, I didn’t really know how everything went there, everything that happened.
2/ I thought Auschwitz was in the East of Germany.
3/ Yes, I was making a difference between the two types of camps, already by their names.
4/ I think I know approximately the number of victims.
5/ For me, the duty of memory is the importance of knowing how to speak, so that everything is said without taboos, not to forget or even ignore (negationism) what happened. But it is above all the duty to transmit these emotions, this experience, to others.
6/ History allows for Memory. But history is more neutral, more general. Memory, on the other hand, calls for feelings, sensations, emotions, it’s more personal and deeper.
7/ Auschwitz is above all a place of massacre, a weapon against humanity, a nightmarish space. But, with hindsight, one still discovers a story, a common memory. This place is a witness to what could have happened, it is major evidence.
8/ First, I would like us to film the story of the deportees who accompany us so that it helps us to imagine things, so that we are charged with emotion. Then, I would like to be able to discover the expression of all the faces, as well as the different reactions of people. I would like to show the piles of objects and hair, etc. in order to also give some scope. Finally, I would like us to film the dark, small, closed, unhealthy corners of the camp and to oppose them to the surroundings of the park, in order to create a contrast with the greenery and the other houses.
9/ First of all, I think this journey can teach me to discover myself in difficult moments and know my feelings. Then, the historical and cultural interest is important, I could witness a terrible thing that was so far away. Finally, I had this need to go see what the people in the camp experienced, and how they did it.
10/ First, I think that one cannot deprive people of this, one should not be afraid to show things. On the contrary, I rather think that the younger the students are, the more innocent they are, the more they will be marked, shocked (but this place has never really served as an example to ensure that there is no longer genocide).
1/ I knew that Auschwitz was a camp where many Jews, prisoners of war, etc. were sequestered and that some (most) died there gassed.
2/ Yes, I knew where Auschwitz was.
3/ I did not know exactly the difference between extermination camps and concentration camps. But by the word "extermination", I knew that this was the place where prisoners would die.
4/ I did not know the exact number of victims, but I suspected that they were millions.
5/ "Duty of memory" means (for me) transmitting what one knows to others who do not know, or not exactly, what happened in Poland, or during other wars I think that the duty of memory is something important for those who will come after us to know what happened and that these atrocities never happen again.
6/ I think that memory is what those who have experienced certain things tell about what happened to show the truth and, quite simply, to be able to talk about it to younger people.
History is what allows us to know in which circumstances the war took place, why so much violence, etc. History brings memory. And without history, memory would not be transmitted, I think.
7/ From the images that we see in J. T., in the broadcasts, we can see what the blocks actually look like, etc. But, I imagine an immense site, with immense buildings and a bit surrounded by ruins. But, I’m waiting to be there to really see what Auschwitz is.
8/ In the film, I would like to show everything that is representative of the camps, with testimonies from former deportees, who would explain what was such and such thing at the time of the camps, what they feel when they return to Auschwitz. But, above all, show all the buildings, in fact, everything possible so that the people who will see the film and who have never seen Auschwitz can really imagine what it is and thus raise their awareness. It will be like our duty of memory.
9/ I want to go to Auschwitz, first of all because what happened there touches me a lot and I want to know more. Auschwitz is part of the Second World War and this is a period in our history that interests me enormously. And I think that going to Auschwitz will allow me to know a little more about this war. Going to Auschwitz will allow us (the whole class) to meet former deportees and it will be a beautiful human experience to share what they experienced.
10/ A day trip to discover and understand Auschwitz is very short, especially since the camp is far from Bergerac. And I have the impression that the time it takes to explain to us, to 'visit', etc.. the day will pass quickly and we will not have had time to understand everything. I don’t think it won’t be relevant, but it will be far too short. This day will be a marathon day, but I want to go anyway, because the opportunity to go to Auschwitz won’t come twice.
1/ Auschwitz evoked for me the deportation. I knew it was a camp, but I didn’t know if it was of concentration or extermination.
2/ I thought Auschwitz was in Germany (because we are referring to Nazi Germany).
3/ No.
4/ No.
5/ Memory is a duty especially when it comes to such horrible facts. Man’s duty is to be aware of his mistakes and to avoid repeating them.
6/ History, these are the facts and experiences of men. Memory is the transmission of History.
7/ Auschwitz is the camp that caused the most deaths. In my eyes, it represents the horror of thousands of men (whether physical or psychological). It is dehumanization.
8/ I think that we must show precisely what we do not see, what we do not imagine, what affects us at the very moment and not what we were thinking about before.
9/ We talk a lot about it without really knowing and the subject, even current, remains quite vague. It is good to have your own impression.
1/ Auschwitz has always represented for me: horror. I knew a little about the subject, but it mainly concerned the Jewish deportation. It was just this year that I really got interested in the concentration camp system.
2/ Yes.
3/ Yes. But I had a bit of trouble with the camps where we used to work.
4/ By heart, it was 6 million Jews. I didn’t know the figures for the other victims.
5/ For me, "duty of memory" really seems like an obligation. But, it is true that to never repeat such a massacre again, we must raise awareness among men as much as possible. And especially our generation.
6/ The memory that can be maintained comes from a historical fact. All the past has built our present. By not forgetting our past, we act on two things: men and their common present.
7/ A silent place, still motionless under the shock.
8/ I don’t know. The images, we see them. But us in the images, it’s something else.
9/ This is a unique opportunity. I do it for myself and my conscience.
10/ Voices are always raised. Participation in this trip is not mandatory. Everyone had the choice, everyone is responsible for their choice. And, in any case, a day was not too short for me to do my own 'memory assignment'.
1/ For me, Auschwitz evoked the concentration and extermination camp with all the horrors one can imagine and especially discover. The first image that comes to my mind is the entrance of the camp with the kind of tower, perhaps not to enter the walls or simply because it is the most common representation given of Auschwitz. Auschwitz is also, in a way, for me, the camp that symbolizes extermination, the Holocaust. I had already been interested in the question in 3
2/ I knew he was in Poland.
3/ I am no longer very sure, but I think I was making a small one. It has, however, become clearer this year, notably thanks to the knowledge of concentration camps in other situations.
4/ I had the figures in my possession, but I don’t remember knowing them by heart. To be honest, even today I don’t think I can give very exact figures. I’m not sure I’m not mistaken in saying that it is around 7 million The very (too) large number of victims contributes to the horror of the phenomenon, but the execution of such a project does not need a phenomenal number to be frightening. Moreover, the victims have already been considered a lot as numbers. I am more interested in the traces left, photos, testimonies. However, I do not deny the importance of knowing the extent of the disaster. But, as a general rule, I find it difficult to retain the figures, although these deserve an effort.
5/ The duty of memory is to become aware of events that are at least not very relatable from the past. Dare to confront and research elements on the subject to know them as much as possible. The work is then to expand knowledge to other people and other generations, without diminishing its scope. It is to be able to remember, learn, transmit and prevent as much as possible that this happens again. It is undoubtedly a work harder to perform than to state, would only be in the awareness.
6/ I think that History gives access to Memory. That they are linked. History is the enunciation and research of facts, memory consists in making a more or less personal judgment and drawing lessons from it. However, there is already a beginning of the work of memory among some historians. The two can (must?) mix.
7/ They have not fundamentally changed, but they have become clearer. I am thinking more about the memory place that we currently find there. I think that this year has not yet brought me all the knowledge it will have given me at the end of it. I still have sources to exploit, in addition to the trip, to further clarify daily life in the death camps and other things undoubtedly.
8/ I would first like to show the context, the other camps, the goals of the extermination as an introduction. Then, specify the life and death at Auschwitz, in particular. The creation of the camp, the organization, the arrival of the prisoners, the distribution, the appeals, the experiments (everything precisely treated however risks being difficult). I would also like to show how we organize the transmission of memory at Auschwitz, how we rebuilt the camp, the elements highlighted.
9/ Firstly, I know that I want to go to Auschwitz, but I am not sure I can do it alone. If I wish to go to Auschwitz, it is because since I have been interested in extermination during the Second World War, I need to see it, to learn more and more, maybe to be sure of never forgetting or minimizing. I need to get as close to what happened, face to face to confront. It is also a feeling in relation to the deportees, to get closer to them and their suffering, to try to understand them better, even if I don’t think I can ever really know, having never experienced it. It is a rather difficult feeling to put in writing and to formulate.
10/ Everything depends on what the controversy depends. If it is the trip itself that is discussed, I think it’s a good thing, especially since the opportunities are not so numerous. Moreover, the trip is made in a specific context that allows it to bear more fruit than the trip alone. If it’s the duration of the trip that poses a problem, then I think it’s true that a day is a bit short, especially when considering the travel time. The day will be dense and it will be difficult to see everything, to perceive everything; this is not very conducive to commemoration and meditation. However, if the trip were longer, I suppose it would also be more expensive and in this case less accessible. In conclusion, I think that, even if improvements can be beneficial, the initiative of such a trip is useful for memory and this is what is sought.
1/ Before preparing this trip, Auschwitz evoked for me, one of the camps among which the horrors of the leaders of the Ille Reich executed all their contempt, all their hatred. A kind of allegory of fascism. I must admit that I didn’t really make the difference between Auschwitz and other camps, and I didn’t know which camp was of extermination or not.
2/ I didn’t know where this camp was. To be honest, I located it near Austria...
3/ I was only vaguely making the difference between extermination and concentration camps. Our 9th-grade teacher (M. Dauriac from the Collège Henri de Navarre, Coutras, Gironde) had talked about it, but that was not to be written in our notebooks... The difference came from the opening of the excerpts from
4/ The number of victims of the final solution is 5 million.
5/ "Duty of memory" means for me a timeless tribute to the victorious dead.
6/ History must be useful in the reflection of what we could do: to use past mistakes in order not to make them anymore. Memory would rather be for me, an honor to give to those who have died from the mistakes of the past that history shows us, to pay tribute to them.
7/ At the time of writing, I see Auschwitz as one of the extermination camps, of a surprising magnitude, revealing the extent of the measures taken by the Reich for the final solution. I read the judgment of Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier to the leaders of Hitler’s Reich, and it completely reflects the image I have of this camp at present. But the call, in particular, evokes much more things for me than before.
8/ I will see a route, notably that of the condemned, and a representation of the famous extermination block of sad memory...
There would be so many things to show, but how not to sweeten some plans by filming others?.
9/ Not going on this trip because it upsets our daily life is indifference, insulting indifference. I am going on this trip for a memory assignment, I want to see for myself, not just through interposed images or what can be told.
10/ Some doubt the relevance of this trip, because they doubt the relevance of the students. But I sincerely hope that this trip will not be without repercussions in this class...
1/ The name of Auschwitz did not evoke any word to me, only a single image, that of a bulldozer pushing bodies to gather them in heaps, it is the image I have in mind every time I hear the name of Auschwitz.
2/ Yes, I knew that Auschwitz was in Poland.
3/ Yes, I made the difference.
4/ I do not know the exact numbers of the victims, since they are still disputed, but the figure I have retained is 6 million deaths from the Holocaust.
5/ For me, the expression duty of memory is too vague, Memory only evokes the past I don’t think that the sole work on the past is enough, since even with a work of memory, genocides like Rwanda were not avoided when they could have. I believe that the work of memory is a good thing, but it must lead to actions and not findings.
6/ I make a Great difference between history and memory. History would be like 'raw' information, which lets the reader make their own vision of a fact, while memory can be different according to each individual and undergo reinterpretations.
7/ My representation on Auschwitz is something hard for me. Many people tell me, you will "see" Auschwitz, I don’t think I will "see" Auschwitz, I will imagine Auschwitz. Because the camp is no longer the same, it has become for me an image that we offer to 'visitors'. a very different image of the 1945 camp, since there is grass, no more body dust, no more smell, one can only imagine the worst and say it was here. Despite this image, I feel a visceral need to go there.
8/ Given the representation I have of Auschwitz, I will not know what to film in particular. I think I will make the final plan on the grass at the foot of the barbed wire to say, the Nazis tore it off so that the detainees wouldn’t eat it, now we let it grow to give us a 'hope'.
9/ I will not be able to explain my motivations, I know that it is a visceral need to go there and I do not explain it. I know that I am afraid of feeling nothing, and of being seen as a monster in the eyes of others, because as I said, for me, Auschwitz has become a name that is placed on a place. The idea of selling postcards reinforces me in this idea, I tell myself that it has become an image and I find it hard to think that one can "visit" Auschwitz, when you think that 60 years ago, we wanted to flee this place.
10/ I don’t know what to think since I myself have a rather paradoxical opinion about this place, but I feel the need to go there. That’s all I can answer this question.
1/ An extermination camp like any other (understand: not distinguishable from another camp).
2/ Somewhere in Poland.
3/ Yes, although they make many deaths both.
4/ No, but I knew they were very numerous (I estimated several million).
5/ To perpetuate the memory of certain people, so that what happened is not forgotten.
6/ History is objective, dealing with just one subject in general, while Memory is objective and more targeted.
7/ Like a place that has lost its horror with the reconstruction in a 'tourism' way.
8/ Show that it is impossible to understand/feel what happened here.
9/ Not considering myself as someone sensitive, I impose on myself a test to see how I would behave in front of a place that has made one of the largest numbers in history. I also want to see if I manage to understand Hitler.
10/ High school students will never be able to understand what happened there. I know that I would not be able to "honor" the memory of the dead internally (cynical thoughts inevitably cross my mind). I also believe that about 70% of those who leave do not care to honor the memory of people whose death will have no impact on their little happy life...
PS: I may have shocked you with my words (written). If that’s the case, I apologize, but I think I’ve said what many people think.
1/ The name of Auschwitz evoked for me the proof of what is worse in the human being. It evoked a pain, a suffering, an unspeakable heartbreak perpetrated on thousands of men, women, children. I knew the horrors that raged over there, without ever having the pretension to fully understand what happened there and I think that no one, except the deportees, has the ability to assimilate the scope of the phenomenon. So I largely knew the facts from discussing them with my previous teachers, but also with my family.
2/ I did know where Auschwitz is.
3/ I made the difference between extermination and concentration camps. I knew that the first ones were synonymous with certain and almost systematic death.
4/ I did not know the exact numbers of the victims, but was nevertheless aware that they numbered in millions.
5/ The "duty of memory" is, in my opinion, a way not to forget in order never to offer such events an opportunity to take shape again. But, it is also about not silencing the pain of millions of men out of mere comfort and unconsciousness.
6/ History is based on facts and analyses in an almost surgical way, with an objectivity and a distance sometimes disconcerting yet indispensable, while Memory involves personal feelings and reflections.
7/ My representations of Auschwitz have hardly changed, but they are clarified because certain things, of which I was aware, have become even more "concrete" and "graspable".
8/ In the film, I would like to show that it is about human beings above all, about Men who have suffered and who must not be forgotten. I would like to show that hatred leads to nothing and push back the fascist thoughts which are experiencing a new upsurge today, without any consideration for past events, however monstrous they may be.
9/ I am extremely apprehensive about this journey, but it seems essential to me to approach an understanding, although still abstract, of the horror and suffering of men; and especially to return with a message of peace, accessible to all thanks to the film that we are going to make. Of course, not all consciousnesses will agree with what one wants to demonstrate, others won’t care at all, but if it can modify the perception of life and the world that surrounds them for some, it will be a slim victory with the appearance of faint glimmers of hope for the construction of a better world.
10/ I think that eliminating trips to Auschwitz would risk encouraging the resurgence of racism and Nazism in a current society where cemeteries are desecrated by young unconscious fools who do not understand a quarter of the Nazi doctrine and ignore everything about this regime. devastating and irrational.
1/ Before, Auschwitz, for me, was a concentration camp like the others, I could imagine what had happened there, but I would never have thought, that one day, I would go where thousands of people were massacred.
2/ I knew it was in Poland, but I didn’t know where exactly.
3/ No, I thought there was only one type of camp, what I imagined was closer to the concentration camp than to extermination.
4/ I think there were one million dead at Auschwitz and about 5 million in total.
5/ The duty of remembrance is to transmit and tell what happened to future generations so that never again such a horror may occur.
6/ I think that history is first used to know past events in order to better understand current societies; whereas memory is rather about knowing what happened before so as not to repeat the same mistakes.
7/ It is difficult to imagine Auschwitz now, because every time I try to imagine it, I see the skeletal people that we see on most documents talking about Auschwitz; in fact, it is almost impossible to imagine Auschwitz without its deportees.
8/ I would like us to show the places that the prisoners traveled in one day and what their life at the camp consisted of.
9/ I believe that if I want to go to Auschwitz, it is to better see the camp with my own eyes, as the deportees saw.
10/ I think that students should not be forced to go there, but I think that going to Auschwitz can only be beneficial for the memory of each one.
1/ before working on Auschwitz, this name reminded me of few things. I thought it was a concentration camp, that serious things had happened there, but I didn’t know many details, so I wasn’t too worried about it.
2/ Yes, I knew that Auschwitz was in Poland.
3/ No, I didn’t make any differences, for me, the gas chambers were in the concentration camps.
4/ No, I had no idea!
5/ It’s a bit something that I feel, the 'duty of memory', it’s for all those who have suffered, for those who still suffer from terrible wars like the 2
6/ History is what we need to know about our past, about our ancestors, while Memory is thinking, thanking, celebrating those who have lived and suffered, not forgetting that there was a life before us.
7/ Today, I believe that Auschwitz doesn’t look like much anymore and yet, I know that terrible, abominable things happened in this place.
8/ I think that even if it must shock, we must show the horror of the camps, that is to say the reality of this genocide, because people do not realize what really happened there. We create an image of the Shoah, but we are very far from reality, we cannot imagine the horror that reigned there. But, in any case, Auschwitz today resembles everything one could see in France, it is its history that is important. It is necessary to show the reactions of those who see Auschwitz, because the place is deserted, but the knowledge is in each one of us.
9/ Yes, I think I know vaguely my motivations. I believe that I "need" to see, because we all live in a "perfect" world compared to the world in which the victims of the Holocaust lived, and it is important for me to know evil, we are very lucky in France and we do not realize poverty, the suffering, the evil and the horror that may have arrived on our Earth.
10/ I understand that some doubt the relevance of this trip. Not everyone knows the reality of the genocide, I myself am very afraid of feeling nothing, of being indifferent while what happened is really awful. But, one does not control oneself, one does not control one’s emotions, I am a little apprehensive, but I really feel the need to 'see', 'to be there'.
1/ Before we started working on the Nazi concentration camp system and preparing this trip, the name of Auschwitz evoked for me the concentration and extermination camps set up by Hitler and his "friends" Nazis when he really began to take power, in 1933. But, he was also for me the most known of the camps, the example of cruelty, fear, death, dehumanization which were, I believe, the main characteristics of the Nazi camps. Finally, Auschwitz evoked for me, of course, the number of Jewish victims, who were the most numerous, but also gypsies, disabled people, homosexuals
2/ I knew that Auschwitz is in Poland, not far from the German border.
3/ I did not know the exact difference between an extermination camp and a concentration camp. For me, an extermination camp meant a quick death, by gas chambers or crematories, a concentration camp a slow death by shame, work, hunger, cold, fear.
4/ I did not know exactly the victim figures.
5/ For me, the expression "duty of remembrance" means to show past generations that we have not forgotten what they experienced, that their sufferings and actions still serve us today to build our lives and it is a proof of what man is capable of doing. Now, if we know what he is capable of, we may be better able not to let ourselves be carried away by extremist movements and to have a more objective look at the world around us.
6/ History relates facts and is built on statistics and an external analysis of the past. Memory comes from testimonies and takes us inside what past generations have experienced. History interests us, Memory touches us. That is why we cannot mix the two.
7/ But representations about Auschwitz have changed little since we started working on the concentration camp system. What has changed is the role we have on memory, and the more we move forward in this work, the more I find that some people, wanting too much from memory, are killing it.
8/ In this film, I would like to show that the Shoah is not just numbers and calculations, but also people who still remember it and that we, poor little children who have never known the concentration camp system, cannot afford to say, whatever our information is, that we know.
9/ The motivations that led me to make this trip are the desire to disgust me a little more about Humanity, but also a need to know and a certain way of telling myself that our life is a real paradise.
10/ I think that many people nowadays believe that their quiet little life is a hell. Something that, for me, is false. Perhaps a small visit that shows so little of the horror that was the concentration camp system would do them good.
1/ Auschwitz evoked for me a large concentration camp and not an extermination, work and concentration camp which was at the origin of the genocide of the Jews. I thought there was only one camp, whereas in reality Auschwitz includes several camps.
2/ Yes, in Poland.
3/ Extermination camps are camps where the goal is to put people to death as industrially, at the same time, while in concentration camps, death is slow, it happens over the days that pass, along with a dehumanization.
4/ About one million victims.
5/ "Duty of remembrance" is to bear witness to the sufferings, the horrors that all these people have experienced. Convey a memory of these peoples and above all, do not obscure anything, that the future populations know what happened, realize the atrocity. The "duty to remember" is like defending ideals that have been, for a long time, forgotten such as the dignity of Man.
6/ History is broader than memory. History will be different from memory in relation to explanations. Indeed, history will expand on many levels (economic, social, political, cultural, religious), but will also be able to refute memory or simply criticize it.
7/ Auschwitz is for me the symbol, the emblem, of Nazi barbarism. In this one, I see a pile of corpses, people who no longer have any desire to live, completely dehumanized. All means are good to show the prisoners that they are reduced to nothing: the wagons in which the deportees are no more than cattle, the tattooed number, the constant humiliation of Auschwitz is just an industrial organization in which hair, the teeth, the clothes of the deportees will serve as raw materials.
8/ The entrance to the camp, what the prisoners first saw before being locked up in the camps, the main entrance of Auschwitz, the gas chambers, the dormitories, the infirmary with the office of the d
9/ We talk about it a lot, so many people have perished there, it’s like a "duty of memory" to go there and be able to tell what one has discovered there.
10/ I don’t understand why some people oppose it, it’s nevertheless very important, we have this opportunity to discover, certainly something horrible, but which still marked the whole world and many minds forever. We talk about it in class, but the fact of being able to realize the facts on the spot makes it possible to raise awareness among certain minds that may not be able to realize the seriousness of the facts of the scourge.
1/ I had already heard something about Auschwitz and knew that it was an extermination camp made for the Jews. I didn’t know that political opponents, gypsies, homosexuals, etc., were also deported.
2/ I knew it was in an Eastern European country, but not exactly where.
3/ For me, concentration camps represented the place where deportees were placed to perform forced labor and extermination camps, the place from which one never returned, the "death camps".
4/ I knew the number of victims from the 3
5/ "Duty to remember" means first of all that we must not forget the victims. As time passes, all the witnesses of the war disappear. Our generation has the duty to pass on to future generations, who will have to content themselves with written and filmed works, this notion of 'never again' and will have to make them aware of this terrible period. It is a heavy burden, because having not lived through this period, we will never have on them the impact that a deportee or an actor of war can have, we will never be able to convey to them as they do this horror that was war.
Future generations will not have the privilege of learning and hearing from real witnesses.
But, this "duty of remembrance", we owe it to all the victims, whatever their religion or nationality, because no human being should endure what they have endured.
It can be scary, the fact that we have been entrusted with the task of instilling in future generations the notions of 'never again' because, if a Third World War were to break out, it would be a feeling of failure for us, but also for all the victims who died for nothing, because in the end, their death will not even have served to make men think.
6/ History covers everything: the political, economic and social context of the time, the gearing of the Nazi system, totalitarian regimes, etc. Memory is more rooted in the horror of war and victims.
7/ I imagine Auschwitz as a kind of Oradour-sur-Glane, completely in ruins, but I think that Auschwitz will have more effect on an emotional and psychological level.
8/ I would like to show the students' reactions to the camps.
9/ I wanted to make this trip because, even though we read works, watch films and listen to testimonies, the fact of being in Auschwitz opens up other horizons for us and another vision of this place, plunges us directly into the context of deportations. I think that this visit will have a much more important and strong effect on me than any document, because one becomes aware of things only when they are in front of you.
10/ I think they are right, because a day is too short because we arrive shocked and we don’t have time to sit down to reflect and visit Auschwitz as it should be.
1/ The name of Auschwitz evoked for me the worst of concentration camps and Nazi horror. However, my memories from college were not enough to measure the reasons and the extent of the disaster. Moreover, the years having passed, the survivors have recently accepted to testify about their experience with middle school students.
2/ I did not know precisely where Auschwitz is located. For me, the camp was in Germany!
3/ I knew the two aspects of the Nazi system, but I only used the term "concentration camp" to designate the universe where the atrocities of the Nazi system took place.
4/ The exact number of victims was unknown to me, but I suspected its importance.
5/ The expression "duty of remembrance" represents the obligation not to forget and that of transmitting knowledge to future generations so that they are aware of the reality of the past. Talking about these events can help prevent them from recurring; even if, unfortunately, other genocides have taken place since the Holocaust (see the testimony of Velibor Colic).
6/ History is a science, it serves to describe, explain, study events of the past, facts. Memory contains a judgment, it is not a science, it is a duty for citizens. However, History is, of course, indispensable to memory.
7/ Currently, it is impossible for me to imagine the atmosphere of Auschwitz. Everything that appeals to sensations is very vague anyway, despite the testimonies, the photographs, or even the journey that help to understand, I think one cannot really imagine Auschwitz if one has not lived it.
8/ I think it should be shown that:
* peace is fragile and that the horror of camps can resurface at any time. Moreover, it is still present in some countries around the world.
* Efforts for peace must be permanent
* We must fight against all political excesses that could harm men in all countries; especially the extreme right.
9/ This trip will help me get a clear idea on the subject. I think that visiting the place is the best way to report it. Moreover, I am making this trip because it is offered to me and I think that I will never have the opportunity or the courage to make it alone, even in a few years.
10/ People who doubt the relevance of organizing a day at Auschwitz, then deem the memory of the Holocaust unnecessary. They often possess no knowledge on this subject and therefore speak without the slightest notions. Their ideas should therefore not be taken into account. Despite their political convictions, some history lessons on the concentration camp system might be useful to them! I think they are unfortunately more numerous than we think; would their ideas agree with those of the Nazis? In any case, these reactions clearly prove the necessity of the duty to remember and reinforce the answers set out in question 8.
1/ The name of Auschwitz reminded me of a place where many humans died, I knew that horrible things had happened there. In 3
2/ Yes, I knew that Auschwitz was in Poland, only I did not really know the reason.
3/ I was only making a very vague distinction between the two. I knew there was a difference, but that death was the outcome for both.
4/ No, I only knew that there were a lot of victims, but it was unclear.
5/ I don’t know if I will (very) succeed in explaining what 'memory duty' means to me, but I will try. a means: "from the moment you know, when you know something concrete in which you believe and that 'something' awakens within you 'feelings' and well, you don’t want to, but the need to repeat it, to retransmit it around you."
With the Shoah, from the moment when one feels revolt, hatred, sorrow, it is no longer a 'duty' but a need for memory. This 'duty of memory' fills the feeling of powerlessness that one finally experiences that I experience. And often we 'run into' people to whom the name of Auschwitz says nothing. Others do not want to hear about it.
6/ Memory is what we keep of an 'event', we think about it, we comment on it, we talk about it to not forget it. History is tracing certain lines. It’s as if we were redrawing a painting by a great painter. It’s saying things so that we can imagine them.
In fact, I find that it is quite difficult to define certain things and here, this is the case.
7/ Today my representations on Auschwitz are different. Thousands of people have lost their lives there and as if it wasn’t already atrocious enough to die in that form ("under the shower") they were thrown into crematory ovens. I know that Auschwitz was the place that served as a 'factory' for an industrial killing; everything was set up by men who, apart from this 'work' they were doing, were normal. Most had their villa a few kilometers from Auschwitz, with their family
The most terrible thing is that it was a man who decided to exterminate other men because, by birth, they belonged to the Jews.
And every time, we learn new horrors, unthinkable things so how could one (it is true) really believe that it happened?
Yet I believe in it and at my best, I would try to convey what we will see, to share what I know.
There is also the fact of still having people alive whom I deeply respect, who are still here, to tell us what they have experienced. It seems even more true that way and more atrocious too. Honestly, I am apprehensive about the trip and I wonder if I will hold on because it will cause a shock, that is certain, but what will be its scope? I have already had nightmares
8/ Honestly, I don’t really know Well yes, well I don’t know. We see a lot of images on TV, it should be done differently but how exactly, I don’t know. Everything must be shown because nothing is essential, only it will have to be done in a structured way.
9/ A desire to know, to see for afterwards retransmit.
10/ The voices rising that doubt the relevance of this trip may not be entirely wrong. I think that for this trip to be positive, you have to be prepared for it (what we do for example) and have understood what the Shoah is. You must also have a purpose.