[HIGHLIGHTS] “It’s important to be here”: at Auschwitz, young people from Strasbourg facing the duty to remember

High school students from Strasbourg visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland. A symbolic school trip, while anti-Semitic acts have increased in recent months in France.

In 2023, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) recorded an increase of almost 1,000% in anti-Semitism. According to the CRIF, 10% of these acts take place in schools. From the next school year, the Grand Est region will double the number of students invited to go to the Auschwitz site.