For more than 20 years, the Shoah Memorial has organized annual study trips to the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, supervised by survivors and historians.
Intended for students in general, vocational and agricultural education, these study trips are part of a genuine educational approach, often multidisciplinary, based on thorough and personalized preparation, on the provision of adapted and exclusive educational tools, on qualified supervision and rigorous follow-up after the stay.
Selected according to their motivation, students are necessarily engaged in educational projects that mobilize them throughout the school year. Before the study tour, these projects lead the classes to start a documentary research and to strengthen their knowledge, a fundamental step before the visit to Auschwitz. After the study tour, students work with their teachers to reflect and give feedback on both their emotions and the concepts they have learned.
Study trips are a pedagogical tool for teaching the history of the Shoah, complementary to other actions taken in schools. They also represent for all the participants an exceptional human and intellectual experience, whose stakes go beyond the field of history to reach civic and citizenship training.
