They are “ambassadors of memory”.
For the past two years, 4th and 3rd year students from the Louise Weiss College in Strasbourg have joined the initiative initiated by the Shoah Memorial, in conjunction with the thirteen French places of memory, including the KL Natzweiler-Struthof located in Alsace. annexed in fact by Hitler.
This January 27, which marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, all the classes of the establishment will meet in the courtyard to hear the message of Simone Veil, before the lighting of candles.
“Know how to be discerning, while time keeps us further and further away from these events, making trivialization an evil perhaps even more dangerous than denial.
The teaching of the Holocaust is not a vaccine against anti-Semitism or totalitarian excesses either, but it can help to forge the conscience of each and every one of you"
, wrote the academician who knew sixteen years the hell of the camp…
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