The partnership

The Ile-de-France Region participated in the enlargement of the Shoah Memorial, inaugurated on 25 January 2005, in the presence of the French President Jacques CHIRAC and the Chairman of the Regional Council Jean-Paul HUCHON.

A partnership has been in place since July 2000 between the Shoah Memorial and the Regional Council of Ile de France, with the aim of informing and raising awareness among high school students about the history of the Shoah through a program of 6 complementary actions:

- training days on the history of the Shoah offered to teachers, management staff (Action No. 1) and librarians from voluntary institutions (Action No. 2),

- the reception of high school students at the Shoah Memorial, prepared by the educational coordinators of the Memorial in close collaboration with the teachers (Action No. 3), and the reception of high school students at the Memorial followed by a memorial trail in the Ile-de-France region, accompanied by a guide and witnesses (Action No. 3 bis).

- for the institutions, upon request, the provision of exhibitions on the Holocaust (Action No. 4) and the organization of screenings on the Second World War in partnership with the Paris video library (Action No. 5),

- days of visit to the Auschwitz camp (Action No. 6). Three one-day study trips are organized for the first 24 high schools in the Île-de-France region, with 20 people per school (18 students and 2 teachers). The selected schools must select the most involved high school students by asking them to write a cover letter addressed to the educational team. The participating students are welcomed at the Memorial to prepare for the study tour. On site, they are supervised by historians of the Memorial and accompanied by former deportees. Upon their return, they are invited to carry out a collective educational project in order to communicate their experience to their peers. Their work is then presented through a traveling exhibition within the institutions that will request it.