The partnership

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

A partnership has been engaged since July 2000 between the Shoah Memorial and the Regional Council of Ile de France and aims to inform and raise 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 of 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 N° 3), and the reception of high school students at the Memorial followed by a memory journey in Ile-de-France, accompanied by a guide and witnesses (Action N° 3 bis).

- for the institutions by making the request, the provision of exhibitions on the Holocaust (Action N° 4) and the organization of screenings on the Second World War in partnership with the Paris video library (Action N° 5),

- visit days of the Auschwitz camp (Action N° 6). Three one-day study trips are organized for the first 24 Ile-de-France high schools with 20 people per school (18 students and 2 teachers). The selected institutions 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 for a preparation 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.