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

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

As in the current exhibition at the Memorial, which you can discover until 29 August 2021, this 200-page catalogue presents 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 who today continues this mission of transmission as shown by the photographic series Survivors by Rudy Waks or even 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 about 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 director, shown at the Shoah Memorial as part of the exhibition. Unpublished, original manuscripts, unpublished interviews with historians and intellectuals enrich this fascinating history of the making of testimony.

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30€ at the Memorial bookstore