Commemoration of the Vel d'Hiv roundup
On Thursdays, 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 were arrested in Paris and the Paris region.
7:30 p.m. on Instagram
Reading letters of the Vel d'Hiv with
At 3 p.m. live on the Memorial website and on 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
4pm
At 9 p.m. sharp on the site of the Shoah Memorial
Unique screening of the film
French, Canadian and Czech, 2017, 1h54
Synopsis: 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 forced to wear the yellow star and suffer railleries and sometimes insults. As the situation worsens and the older brothers want to go bush, Roman and Anna decide to place their youngest children, Maurice and Joseph in a 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
Live broadcast of the national commemoration in memory of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes committed by the French state and tribute to the "Righteous Among France". on the Ministry of the Armed Forces' YouTube page and in collaboration with CRIF.
On Thursdays, July 9 and 16, the Shoah Memorial organizes on its various social networks the commemoration of the Vel d'Hiv roundup
