On the occasion of the International Day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the Shoah Memorial offers you a program of exceptional events from 27 to 28 January 2021.
Watch a rebroadcast of the ceremony commemorating January 27, the International Day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, which was broadcast live from the crypt of the Shoah Memorial and simultaneously with the other member sites of the network of places of remembrance. The ceremony took place in the presence of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, Ginette Kolinka and part of the 4th promotion of the Ambassadors of Memory.
This meeting was organized as part of the great cycle of testimonies with the survivors of the Nazi camps that began on January 26, 2020.
Born in 1935 in Demblin (Poland), Izio was raised in a Yiddish culture imbued with the communist ideal. During the summer roundups of 1942, he was hidden with his sisters by a carpenter. In the summer of 1944, the family was taken to the Czestochowa internment camp. Izio was then deported to Buchenwald where the communist resistance protected him in block 66 of the children. After the liberation of the camp, he was welcomed in France into the homes of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).
This last testimony was recorded on January 18, 2021.
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from January 27 to January 29, 2021
Documentaire, 50', VOSTF, EO, Sarphati Media, Netherlands, 2020.
With the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
Synopsis: In order to preserve the buildings and objects preserved at the museum of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp for future generations, a team of young specialists in conservation and restoration is sent to the site. As they work, emotion catches up with them. How can human hair be preserved? How do you keep personal documents of former internees? These objects must be able to continue to be exhibited 75 years after the Holocaust in order to keep the memory alive. Manfred van Eijk and his team spent five years working with the managers of the various restoration sites. They take us into this extraordinary and fascinating work carried out with respect for objects and buildings.
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Recorded in January 2020
Exceptional lecture by the historian Timothy Snyder, at 7:30 p.m.
With Bloodlands. L'Europe entre Hitler et Staline, a bestseller published by Gallimard in 2012, Timothy Snyder decisively renewed the historiography of the European continent during the 1930s and 1940s. In this fascinating account, 1941 appears as the pivotal year to grasp the relations between the Nazi and Soviet systems. The American historian does us the honor of returning to the major issues at stake during this decisive year in the course of the Second World War and the fate of European Jews.
Timothy Snyder
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