On Thursday 9 and 16 July, the Shoah Memorial organizes on its various social networks and its website the commemoration of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of 16 and 17 July 1942 during which 13,152 Jews including 4,000 children are arrested in Paris and the Paris region.
Thursday 9 July 2020
19:30 on Instagram
Reading letters of the Vel d'Hiv with Tatiana de Rosnay, writer and preface author of I write you from the Vel d'Hiv (2011), and Viktor Lazlo, singer, actress and novelist and Claude Lelouch, director, producer and screenwriter.
Thursday 16 July 2020
At 3 PM live on the Memorial site and in Facebook Live
A ceremony without an audience organized by the FFDJF, in the presence of Serge Klarsfeld, President and Jacques Fredj, director of the Memorial, will be broadcast live at 3pm from the children’s garden of the Vélodrome d'Hiver on social networks and on the website of the Shoah Memorial.
16h interview on Instagram of Rachel Jedinak, survivor of the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv and author of We were only children (2018)by Jacques Fredj live from the kindergarten of the Velodrome d'Hiver
Single screening of the film A Bag of Marbles by Christian Duguay, with Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel
French, Canadian and Czech, 2017, 1h54
Synopsis: In Paris, in winter, during the Second World War, Roman Joffo, hairdresser, his wife Anna and their four sons, live under the laws of Vichy. Jews, they are now obliged to wear the yellow star and face ridicule and sometimes insults. As the situation worsens and the older brothers want to take the maquis, Roman and Anna decide to place their youngest children, Maurice and Joseph in the free zone, in Nice. For the two boys, it is the beginning of a journey through occupied France.
Presentation below of the film by Frank Joffo, son of Joseph Joffo author of the book A Bag of Marbles (1973) and actor:
SUNDAY 19 July 2020
Live broadcast of the national commemoration in memory of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes of the French State and tribute to the "Justes de France". on the YouTube page of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and in collaboration with the CRIF.
