Riss and the Shoah Memorial propose to discover a selection of these never exhibited drawings. To prepare your visit, discover the guided tour” alongside Laurent Joly, director of the CNRS and curator of the exhibition, and Riss, cartoonist and director of Charlie Hebdo.
On February 21, 2024, Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée entered the Pantheon. By this act, France pays tribute to all foreign resistance fighters. On this occasion, the Shoah Memorial presents “Foreigners in the Resistance”, an exhibition on the fight of foreigners for the Liberation of France. With Missak Manouchian, accompanied by Mélinée, all foreign […]
The Shoah Memorial joins the emotion aroused by the death of Robert Badinter, a member of the Board of Directors of our institution. Robert Badinter left us on February 9, 2024 in his 95th year, 81 years to the day after the raid on Sainte Catherine Street in which his father, Samuel Badinter, was taken […]
with Missak Manouchian, accompanied by Mélinée, all foreign resistance fighters will enter the Pantheon on February 21, 2024. Whether they are political refugees or economic immigrants, naturalized or even born in France, these men and women, including many Jews, fought in metropolitan France but also in the colonies and abroad and played a crucial role […]
January 27 is dedicated to the International Day for the Memory of Genocide and the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by Soviet troops. In connection with this commemorative date, the Shoah Memorial offers a series of activities as part of its educational […]
From April 7 to mid-July 1994 in the hills of Rwanda, more than a million Tutsi men, women and children perished in the name of a political utopia aimed at restoring the racial purity of a Hutu nation rid of a minority portrayed as sneaky and harmful. Imagining themselves threatened in their very existence, the […]
As part of its educational missions, the Shoah Memorial undertakes a series entitled «the meaning of words». More than ever, it is important to understand that words have a meaning and a precise definition. The Shoah Memorial must emphasize the importance of the meaning of words, their use and use. CONCENTRATION CAMP IS… a place […]
For this 2024 fall, I invite you to visit at the Shoah Memorial the exhibitions Riss: the Papon trial and Music in the Nazi camps, as well as the new exhibitions Rwanda 1994: the genocide of the Tutsi (as part of the 30th commemoration) and Strangers in the Resistance in France (around the panthenisation of […]
Six seminars were organized in 2023 by the Shoah Memorial and its European partners, for 281 teachers/educational staff from 13 European countries (France, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain). The 12-month project dealt with sensitive issues by taking the Holocaust as the foundation of inclusive dialogue between countries […]
The mission of the Shoah Memorial created in 1943 in hiding is to transmit and teach the consequences of racism and anti-Semitism in history, that of the Shoah and genocide, throughout France, Europe and the world. Educate against anti-Semitism, racism, hatred of others that lead to barbarism. On October 7, 2023, Hamas, an Islamist terrorist […]
April 1998: at the end of a historical trial, 6 months long, Maurice Papon was sentenced to 10 years of criminal imprisonment for his role in the arrest of 1,600 Jews while he was secretary general of the prefecture of Gironde between 1942 and 1944. This trial at the assizes marked the minds: Because he […]
Born in Argenteuil in 1936 to Polish Jewish parents, Hélène Waysbord was hidden at the age of 6 in Evron in Mayenne in the fall of 1942 after the arrest of her father Jacques and her mother Fajga, deported and murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Associate of classical letters, teacher, then in the 80s, in […]
The “Holocaust as a starting point” project received financial support from the European Union as part of the “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme” (CERV) – “Remembrance” strand. Six seminars were organized in 2022 by the Shoah Memorial with its European partners (Ministry of Education, NGO, museum). 282 teachers/educational staff from 13 European […]
Julia Pirotte (1907-2000), born in Konskowola, Poland, in a poor Jewish family. Arrested at 17 for her involvement in communist youth, she spent four years in prison. In 1934, she fled Poland helped by the International Red Aid. Arriving in Belgium, she married the worker and trade unionist Jean Pirotte, and met the future resistance […]
On the occasion of January 27, 1945, when the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp was discovered 78 years ago, the commemoration ceremony was held on Friday, January 27, 2023 in the crypt of the Shoah Memorial in Paris. The commemorative ceremony was attended by Ms. Ginette Kolinka, survivor of the deportation camps; Mr. Eric de Rotschild, President of […]
Since 2021, Mémorial de la Shoah, together with POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Poland), Žanis Lipke Memorial (Latvia) and the Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia (North Macedonia) has been implementing the “Nonviolent Communication Approach in Adult Education in Historical Museums and Memorial Sites” project. The project, which is a part of the Erasmus+ Program, aims at […]
At the start of 2023, the Mémorial de la Shoah invites you to discover, on the one hand, its new major exhibition Spirou dans la turmoil de la Shoah, an opportunity to tackle a difficult subject as a family, and, n the other hand, the exhibition dedicated to the photographer and resistance fighter Julie Pirotte. […]
Thursday, October 20, 2022, the Prince and the Princess of Denmark visited the Shoah Memorial accompanied by François Zimeray, former Ambassador of France to Denmark, alongside Hubert Strouk, Head of the Pedagogical Service and Regional Coordinator of the Pedagogical Service of the Shoah Memorial. They visited the Wall of Names, the Crypt and the permanent […]
As part of the Parisian week against discrimination, the Shoah Memorial organized on Sunday, October 16 a guided tour of the exhibition Cabu, drawings of the round-up of the Vel d’hiv. It took place in French sign languages. The meeting was attended by a large and enthusiastic audience. Other events are planned in connection with […]
The program of our cultural activities is, as always, rich in encounters and promises moments of reflection and emotion. In connection with the exhibition “To the grace of God” there will be an eponymous cycle; we will mark the literary season with a series of interviews with six authors; we will propose a selection of […]
