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Throughout the year, the rhetoricians of the Institut Sainte-Marie de Chatelet were carried by a project called "Schools for Democracy .

A highlight of this project was without doubt the trip to the concentration camps and extermination at Auschwitz.

January 27, 2006, 26 students from Rhaeto, their 3 teachers and their manager are gone before dawn. This trip was organized by the Centre for Equal Opportunities, with logistical and financial departments of Defense and Integration social.

The group was accompanied by former deportees, as Chil Elberg, Witness "attributed" to Sainte-Marie.

After landing, it was the discovery of snowy landscapes Poland. despite the freezing cold, the welcome of the local authorities had the warmest. During an hour because the Polish plains desert, but so full of emotion, took place, highlighting a striking contrast between the modern European world and the misery caused by deprivation Communists.

The arrival at camp froze the blood of all, even more than the unusually cold for even a harsh Polish winter.

Indeed, the concentration camp atmosphere that prevailed in these places was just as overwhelming as the polar temperatures, less than 17 ° C arriving in Krakow at 10:30.

In small steps, the group crossed the gate of Auschwitz horrible, infamous, and Mr. Elberg brought direct testimony in addition to the detailed information of the guide.

On this day of 27 January 2006, the emotion was twofold, as was also the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet army. The former deportees and official delegations flocked to lay wreaths of flowers in commemoration of the dead in this sad period of history.

Throughout the day, students were able to grasp, touch their hands of Nazi barbarism, still palpable to every corner of Auschwitz and Birkenau.

The afternoon was indeed devoted to visiting the remains of Auschwitz II. Wooden barracks, the women's quarters, latrines, ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria: all this has moved the group and has raised awareness of the cruelty of which men are capable. But the most poignant moment was certainly the story of Chil Elberg, in the same barracks where he was detained.

text written May 5, 2006 by Francoise Julien and Samuel