For its second edition, the Charles Gottlieb Award ceremony will honor the best works that contribute to the work of remembrance, to learn lessons from the past and fight against all forms of intolerance, through memory journeys, poems, videos, and models, created by the 9th-grade students from Nice.
In addition, there will be a presentation of the Citizen Passport, which makes citizenship a priority for our department.
With a lot of emotion and consideration, this edition took place in Nice, at the Department of Alpes-Maritimes.
The Gottlieb Prize, a showcase of the students’ work.
15 schools were registered for this award ceremony, and seven of them were present: Blanche De Castille, L’Archet, and Sainte Thérèse in Nice, Les Muriers in Cannes, Saint-Exupéry in Saint-Laurent-du-var, Niki de Saint-Phalle in Valbonne and Bellevue in Beausoleil.
It is during several organized trips to the infamous site of Auschwitz-Birkenau that 15,600 teenagers faced the horror and became ambassadors for peace.
The educational teams that participated with their students left their mark on memory and managed to move the jury composed of:
Martine Ouakinine (departmental counselor in charge of “the duty of remembrance, youth, and citizenship), Jean-marc Noaille (regional educational inspector for history-geography), Géraldine Willems (coordinator of defense, remembrance, and citizenship), Vanessa Siegel (departmental counselor), Daniel Wancier (president of the Yad Vashem Nice Côte d’Azur committee), Claude Giribone (descendant of the Righteous Among the Nations), Emna Amri and Maxime Willebien-Pessina (CDJ).
The first prize was awarded to the Bellevue school in Beausoleil for their website “memory journey, in the footsteps of Charlotte”.
As a prize, a one-day citizen trip to Paris will be organized for the students and teachers, where they will be welcomed at the National Assembly as well as visit the Shoah Memorial.
The “Citizen Passport” a reference document for youth
“Respect, Pride, Solidarity” is the motto of the department’s students.
This passport is based on seven themes: republican values, citizenship, freedom of expression, solidarity, the duty of remembrance, the environment, and sports/health.
To complete it, there are focuses on local events, symbolic dates, SMS exchanges between teenagers, riddles, a map of citizen activities, and many other things to discover inside. It is a playful and youth-friendly format, designed as a logbook that will accompany them throughout their school years.
By appropriating and personalizing the passport, the students will be worthy ambassadors of the republican ideal while continuing to act according to their own wishes.
Laurina Andurao Edj
