Yom HaShoah Ceremony 2022

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from 7 PM to 7 PM

From April 27, 2022 at 7 PM to April 28, 2022 at 7 PM were read on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial 31 convoys: from convoy 38 to convoy 73.

The ceremony of Yom HaShoah is a date chosen by the State of Israel for the commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance during the Second World War, it takes the form of an uninterrupted public reading of 24 hours, day and night.

Of the 76,000 names inscribed on the Wall of Names, the names of the people deported from France are pronounced one by one. Some 200 people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... will read in turn, from the lists from Serge Klarsfeld’s Book of the Deportation Memorial (Association of the FFDJF), the names of "those whose only name remains" (Simone Veil).

The ceremony is open to the public on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial from 7 PM to 1:45 AM and then from 6 AM to 7 PM.

From 1:45 and 6:00, the readings of convoys 49 to 55 will be read remotely, on Zoom.

Testimony of Isabelle Choko, former deportee.

The ceremony was entirely broadcast live on the website of the Shoah Memorial, as well as on the Facebook and YouTube pages.

Event carried out under the aegis of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, in partnership with Judaism on the Move (JEM), the association of the Sons and Daughters of the Jewish deportees of France (FFDJF) at the initiative of this ceremony, and the Consistory of Paris.