Seminar for members of the

Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice

of the Council of Europe

or their representatives

Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 April 2015

MEMORIAL  DE LA SHOAH

PARIS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 19 April 2015

 

 

A rrival in Paris

Accommodation :

Hotel Best Western Patio Saint Antoine (289 bis rue Saint Antoine, 75011 Paris)

DINNER at the hotel

 

Monday 20 April 2015

Nazi Germany and the Jews, from hatred to murder

 

8.45 amParticipants arrival at the Memorial

 

9 – 9.30 amOpening of the European Workshop by Bruno Boyer, Head of International Relations, Shoah Memorial, and  Dr Carole Reich, Advisor to the Council of Europe for  the “Holocaust Remembrance” programme

 

9.30 – 10 am“Tour de table” – Introduction of participants, national issues

 

10 – 11.15 am Guided visit  of the Memorial de la Shoah

 

11.30 am – 1 pmThe roots of anti-Semitism in Europe

Georges Bensoussan, historian, Memorial de la Shoah

 

1 – 2.30 pmLunch at the restaurant

 

2.30 – 4 pm The Nazi “world view” - An introduction

Johann Chapoutot, historian, lecturer at the University of Grenoble II and member of the Institut universitaire de France

 

4 – 4.15 pmBreak

 

4.15 – 5.30 pmThe stages of the “final solution to the Jewish question”

Tal Bruttmann, historian, associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales                                         

 

DINNER (venue to be confirmed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 21 April 2015

 

Drancy and the deportation of French Jews

 

 

8.15 amBus leaves hotel

 

9 – 10.30 am Jewish life in France and Europe before the Shoah

Philippe Boukara, historian, learning coordinator at the Memorial de la Shoah

 

10.45 am – 1.15 pmVichy, the Jews and the Shoah

Tal Brutmann, historian

 

1.15 – 2.30 pmLunch break

 

2.30 – 4 pmVisit to the former internment camp in Drancy and the permanent exhibition

Anaig Lefebvre, Drancy Memorial

 

4.15 – 5.30 pm Testimony : Ginette Kolinka

 

5.30 pmBus returns to Paris

 

7 pmDinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 22 April 2015

 

 

Teaching and passing on the history of the Shoah

 

 

9 – 10.30 am Shoah, genocides and mass crimes

Yann Jurovicz, lawyer, University of Amiens

 

10.45 am – 12.15 pmTeaching about the Shoah and mass crimes in the French education system

Pascale Zachary, curriculum designer, teacher

 

 

12.15 – 1.45 pmLunch

 

1.45 – 3.15 pm Meeting the new challenges of teaching about the Shoah

Iannis Rodder,  Memorial de la Shoah

 

3.30 – 5 pm Round table on education policies in Europe and the Shoah