An educational project at
Lycée L. S. Senghor Évreux High School
2016 - 2017
November-February
A CHALLENGE PROPOSED BY VETERAN ALBERT FIGG AND DEEP RESPECT :
TRANSLATING
Mr FIGG'S MEMOIRS
Albert Figg published his autobiography in 2016.
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Association Deep Respect asked if some of the school students would like to work on this translation. 13 students from our school got involved: they took on their own time, often at home, to tackle the work.
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By the end of May, the challenge was met... Just in time for the book to be published and presented to Albert
Here is the result: the book in French, distributed by Deep Respect in France
Gaëlle and Esther meet Albert at Overlord Museum, Colleville-sur-Mer, June 3 2017
December
Another project allowing students to cross views about memories of the deportation and memory of the battle of Normandy
School group "Première L 1" was able to go out and visit historical sites related to the Normandy landings.
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Pupils visited the Mémorial de Caen then went to Colleville-sur-Mer so as to get a better understanding of what took place in 1944.
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The American cemetery in Colleville is a very appropriate place to grasp historical as well as issues of memories
With this project, students were invited to study a personnal history and broader views of WW2: meeting Mrs Ida Grinspan (several students have studied her book) allowed them to understand what the Nazis'policy of extermination was.
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The school group and the Head of the school thank Colonel Durand from Le Souvenir Français for helping to make the outing possible
This is the account the students heard when Ida Grinspan came to our school
Maximilien Noë, one of the school students, organised most of the meeting and lead the interview
Follow the link to watch the video on Vimeo.
More on this page: witness-accounts.
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Maximilien and 3 of his school mates produced a radio program as well as this video.
The Head of the lycée, Mrs Grinspan and Maximilien, leading the talk
February-May
A DAY WITH WW2 VETERAN
DAVID MYLCHREEST
David and Tenno (Deep Respect) in front of the tomb of a soldier from the Worcestershire Régiment who, most probably, took part to the combats at Hill 112, West of Caen, in july 1944.
In February 2017, Mr Kourotchkine, President of Veteran's association UNC - L'Aigle phoned the school to suggest we meet David Mylchreest.
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Consequently, we had the opportunity and extreme pleasure to spend a day with both of them in Évreux.
In the morning, interviews took place at the school. In the afternoon we visited the local cemetery (st Louis) with the help of association Souvenir Français); then we visited the local museum where an exhibition was on about the bombings of Évreux: "Évreux, année zéro".
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After that extraordinary day, pupils worked on the interviews and published this website (please clic).
Later in the year, another school group was able to visit some sites related to the History & memories of the Battle of Normandy
Museum Overlord Museum allowed us to meet Welsh veteran Roy O'neill for the second time -well, this group had never met him before. Roy, just like David, fought at Hill 112 in July '44.
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Then the school group went to discover the memorial at Hill 112. The battle there is known as "the Verdun normand". This place was set up as a Memorial under the leadership and initiative of Albert Figg.
The internet site created after the encounter with David Mylchreest (please clic) gives some details about this place.
To know more about the Hill 112 site, plese visit the website of
Hill 112 Memorial Foundation
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This outing was made possible thanks to the support of the Ministère des armées- direction des patrimoines, de la mémoire et des archives
Mrs Ravier, the English teacher of the school group made this great video.
It gives an insight of the entire project
Please clic on the box (right) despite the message
June
A group of students present the memoirs of Albert Figg they helped to translate into French at the local bookshop, Gibert-Joseph d'Évreux
Côme, Maëlle, Gaëlle & Esther explain their work to customers and to the local journalist, Mrs Tran.
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Cinq élèves du lycée lauréats du Concours National sur la Résistance et la Déportation
Le thème cette année était "La négation de l'Homme dans l'univers concentrationnaire".
Ces élèves concouraient dans deux catégories différentes.
Pierre-Yves Parent, accompagné par son enseignant d'Histoire-Géographie Luc Daireaux, a été reçu PREMIER dans l'Eure et second dans l'Académie pour son travail. Il avait déjà été lauréat l'année précédente, avec Juliette pour un travail collectif.
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Maximilien Noé, Katia Korbilien, Cassandre Lesdalons et Émilie Royez ont reçu le deuxième prix pour leur travail collectif réalisé suite à leur rencontre, en novembre dernier, avec Madame Ida Grinspan.
Pour en savoir plus sur ce palmarès, cliquez ici