At nearly 28 years old, Fabien Devilliers, a history enthusiast, set off on a major challenge: to cycle to the Auschwitz extermination camp from the Gurs camp in Béarn. Between April 24 and the beginning of July 2022, he will cycle nearly 1900 miles in 80 stages through France,...
On January 27 of this year, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Convoy 77 International Project was featured at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, during a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In the town of Delémont, in Switzerland, a street has been renamed after Jeanne Haas-Ulmann, a Jewish woman who was deported in convoy 77, on July 31th, 1944. The inauguration of this new street name, which happened on October 28th, was made possible by the young students of Delémont's...
“Each person's story becomes everyone's story.” That's the headline on the front page of the April 2021 edition of the “Convoy 77 project newspaper”, a digital journal produced by a class of 9th grade students at the Michel-Richard Delalande junior high school in Athis-Mons, near Paris.
On April, 21, Convoi 77 attended a webinar organised by the European Parliament's Working Group Against Antisemitism and the European Jewish Congress (CJE). This online conference was headed by Nicola Beer, vice president of the European Parliament, and Ariella Woitchik, in charge of European affairs at the CJE.
On April, 8th 2021, for Yom HaShoah, a day dedicated in Israel to commemorations of the Jewish genocide during World War II, a ceremony took place at the French ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv. Convoi 77 participated in this event attended by around 50 people. The representatives of 17...
On April 7th, 2021 Georges Mayer, president of Convoi 77, participated by video link from Israel in an event at the French high school Guy-de-Maupassant, formerly known as the International School of Casablanca (EIC), in Morocco.
How much do the younger generations in France know about the Holocaust? This question comes up regularly in opinion polls, which sometimes produce worrying results.
An interview with Philippe Allouche, Director General of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah): · The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah has been supporting the Convoy 77 project right from the start. What do you gain from it?...
On January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Convoi 77 participated in a webinar organised by the “erinnern.at” Institute, part of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, dedicated to the contemporary teaching of the Shoah. After an introduction by the Austrian minister of Education Heinz Faßmann, Sciences-Po students Benjamin Wucher...
On January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a meeting dedicated to the activities of Convoi 77 took place in Poland. This meeting was organised and hosted by Aleksandra Engler Malinowska, Convoi 77’s coordinator in Poland, in order to emphasize the work accomplished by Polish students and professors throughout the...
Alain Leray is the Memory and History advisor to the SNCF executive committee, which is a partner of the Convoy 77 project. He answered our questions about the role of this major French company during the Second World War and its involvement in the process of memory preservation. Interview....
Convoi 77 made official the beginning of a new collaboration in December with the Warsaw Centre for Education and Social Innovations and Trainings (WCIES). Collaboration with this institution dedicated to teachers will help the development of Convoi 77’s activities in Poland. From now on, the WCIES is helping promote...
The “Memorial to the Deportation of Jews from France”, a colossal publication by the Klarsfeld couple, is now available online. The contents of this exceptionally large book, measuring 25 x 13 inches (60 x 34 cm), and weighing 15 pounds (7kg), which lists the names of the Jews deported,...
Felix Degenszajn, now 84, has been looking for answers ever since the end of the war. His questions are focused on one day in July 1944. Aged 8 at the time, he was staying at the Lucien de Hirsch private school on Avenue Secrétan, in the 19th district of...
Liste des établissements sélectionnés – Établissements situés en France (Travaux classés par académie et par département) : Académie : Aix-Marseille Département : Bouches-du-Rhône Commune : Marseille (XVème arrondissement) Etablissement : Collège « Elsa-Triolet » (REP+) Niveau de classe : 3ème Nombre d’élèves : 20 élèves Enseignante : Mme Morgane BOUTANT (histoire-géographie) Année scolaire : 2019-2020 Biographie :...
Les porteurs des plus beaux projets réalisés depuis 2016 par des classes de 10 pays dans le cadre du « Projet International Convoi 77 » seront reçu au Palais de l’Élysée par le Président de la République Française, en 2021.The leaders of the most outstanding projects undertaken since 2016 by...
A seminar dedicated to the Second Word War in France and the work of the Convoi 77 association took place in Warsaw, Poland, on October 16th and 17th, with around 70 people attending, mainly online. The Warsaw Centre for Socio-Educational Innovation and Training (WCIES) organised the event with the...
Le responsable des relations avec les enseignants de l'association, Serge Jacubert, a animé un séminaire de formation à Skopje, en Macédoine du Nord. On december, Serge Jacubert, head of relations with teachers for Convoi 77 association, gave a lecture during a training seminar at Skopje.
Notre coordinatrice en Pologne, Aleksandra Engler-Malinowska, a présenté le projet européen Convoi 77 à la Sorbonne lors du symposium European remembrance.Aleksandra Engler-Malinowska, coordinator of our project in Poland, introduced Convoi 77 association at la Sorbonne during the 8th symposium of "European remembrance" project.
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