The catalogue of the exhibition La Voix des Témoins has arrived!

75 years after the end of the Second World War, there was a lack of a book that traces in dates and images the history of the testimony of the Shoah. This is done with La voix des Témoins, which brings together the major voices – witnesses, historians, and smugglers – that have shaped the figure of the witness within the collective memory of France and Europe.

As in the exhibition currently presented at the Memorial and which you can discover until August 29, 2021, this 200-page catalog presents the portraits of Primo Levi, Imre Kertész, Simone Veil, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Elie Wiesel, Aharon Appelfeld and Samuel Pisar.

At the same time, the book traces the evolution of testimonies, their forms and their receptions, from the first writings forged within the camps and ghettos to the third generation, which today pursues this mission of transmission as shown by the photographic series Survivors by Rudy Waks or the book Amnestics by Géraldine Schwarz.

Five personalities who have been in their own way "witnesses of the witness" explain how a testimony is made and how we can think it. These texts are based on their participation in the film La Fabrique du Témoignage by Léa Veinstein, writer and philosopher, and Natacha Nisic, visual artist and filmmaker, screened at the Shoah Memorial as part of the exhibition. Unpublished manuscripts, originals, unpublished interviews with historians and intellectuals enrich this fascinating history of the making of testimony.

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€30 at the Memorial bookstore