«AFTER AUSCHWITZ, MEMORY IN ACTION», the new podcast series of the Shoah Memorial

As soon as they returned from Auschwitz, the survivors gathered together. To return to life, help each other, then to organize their claims and maintain the memory of the disappeared. In particular, by creating the Auschwitz Association in June 1945, which became the Union of Auschwitz Deportees, they created a space and a milestone for the memory of the deportation.

How did they go through these eighty years that separate us today from the immediate post-war period? What lyrics, positions and fights did they carry together?

It is their common history that we trace in this series, a story both political and emotional, a story of solidarity and commemoration – a memory in action. Built chronologically, the series is led by historians Annette Wieviorka and Olivier Lalieu. It takes us to the great places of this memory, and we draw its contours: because the history of these associations crosses that of the witnesses, but also the political history of France since the Liberation.

Four episodes to plunge you into an original historical narrative, punctuated by numerous unpublished archives, testimonies never heard, encounters, readings, music, memories. Four episodes to understand the construction of memory, and work towards its perpetuation.

A podcast proposed by the Union of Auschwitz Deportees, in partnership with the Shoah Memorial. Written and narrated by Léa Veinstein, directed and set to music by Alexandre Babeanu.

Historical advisers: Olivier Lalieu, Annette Wieviorka.

Archives INA.

Readings: Héloïse Godet and Zohar Wexler.

Original Yiddish Music: Talila and Alain Speiser.

Graphics: Julien de Gasquet

UDA Site: https://uda-france.fr/