Guided tour of the House and the permanent exhibition for pupils
Since 1994
Since its creation in 1994, the Maison d’Izieu aims to educate, convey and encourage thinking about crime against humanity and the circumstances provoking it.
As a consequence, the memorial welcomes each year more than 18 000 pupils from primary to secondary school, according to French history and geography programmes.
The Maison d’Izieu organises for all school groups a guided tour of 2 hours during which they discover the permanent exhibition and the house.
In the museum’s first room, the pupils learn the French historical context which led to the refuge of more than a hundred Jewish children at Izieu during the Second World War. They continue the visit in the second part presenting the international justice’s answers to crimes against humanity. Finally, they explore the authentical place and its living rooms in which the children and their educators were sheltered from May 1943 to April 1944/
