Educational workshop “Justice and remembrance : the trials and the roundup of Izieu (Nuremberg, Bourdon, Barbie)”

The educational workshop “Justice and remembrance” is proposed to final year A level students who follow the History-Geography-Geopolotics-Political science course. It is about going deeper in the event of the roundup of Izieu through three trials during which the subject was treated : the Nuremberg trial (1945-1946), the Bourdon trial (named after the defendant, Lucien Bourdon, judged on June 13 1947 in Lyon) and finally the Barbie trial (named after the roundup’s responsible, Klaus Barbie, judged in 1987 in Lyon).

Thanks to archival documents of these three trials, the pupils wonder about the links between the roundup, justice and the concept of crime against humanity, while discovering that this long judicial process allowed the children of Izieu’s history to be part of the national remembrance.