Travel to Poland
For the past 8 years, history-geography teacher Annick Berthod and English teacher Igor Bonnet have been taking Terminale students on a multi-day trip to places of Holocaust remembrance in Poland, from which they have produced a film.
The trip to Poland is in line with the history and history-geography, political science and geopolitics syllabuses of the Terminale year, as well as with our school’s project.
The aim is to prepare our students to become citizens who are aware of the challenges of yesterday, today and tomorrow for a participative democracy, by studying and visiting the places where the extermination of a people took place, and thus the annihilation of humanism, the very cornerstone of democracy.
Our journey takes us to Auschwitz and then back in time, following in the footsteps of Jewish life in Krakow, the Polish countryside and Warsaw.
Classes, discussion and reflection sessions and workshops at the Mahn-und-Gedenkstätte in Düsseldorf prepare students for the trip.
Report on the trip to Poland
On Monday June 27, 2022, the Terminales shared their class trip to Poland, In the Footsteps of Jewish Life in Poland, made in February 2022, with their parents and fellow Première students.
The students expressed themselves through speeches, testimonials and a video, and tried to share their feelings and reflections on the journey from Auschwitz to Lodz, via Krakow and Chielmnik.
Their aim was to prepare future Terminales to take part in this final project of the secondary cycle, and to show just how important it is.
The evening was dedicated to two former deportees who passed away this year: Raphael Esrail and Elie Buzyn, to whom history owes a great deal.
As there are fewer and fewer deportees, we have a duty to continue passing on the history of the Shoah.
This is why the Terminale students felt the need to share their experience in Poland, and thus participate in the work of Jewish remembrance.
We would like to thank Mr. Joseph Kastersztein, a friend of Raphael Esrail, and our teachers Madame Berthod, who organized the trip, Mr. Bonnet, who accompanied us, Monsieur le Proviseur, Madame Boursault and Monsieur Besançon, who were present for the evening.
The Masters of Ceremonies, Inès Leon Roubaud and Rodolphe Uguen.
Our project on the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah website
The Foundation has written an article about us, which we invite you to read, and also to watch the video made by the senior students.
We thank them for their annual donation to this project.
Once again, we would like to thank our two teachers, Annick Berthod and Igor Bonnet, for sharing this invaluable teaching with our students every year.