On Thursdays, 9 and 16 July, the Shoah Memorial organises on its various social networks and website the commemoration of the Vel d'Hiv raid on 16 and 17 July 1942, during which 13,152 Jews, including 4,000 children, are arrested in Paris and the Paris region.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
7:30 pm on Instagram
Reading of letters from the Vel d'Hiv with Tatiana de Rosnay, writer and foreword of Je vous écris du Vel d'Hiv (2011), and Viktor Lazlo, singer-actress and novelist and Claude Lelouch, director, producer and screenwriter.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
At 3pm live on the site of the Memorial 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 Vélodrome d'Hiver’s kindergarten on social media and on the website of the Holocaust Memorial.
16h interview on Instagram of Rachel Jedinak rescued from the scoop of the Vel d'Hiv and author of Nous étions seulementdes enfants (2018)by Jacques Fredj live from the kindergarten of the Vélodrome d'Hiver
Unique 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, during the winter of World War II, Roman Joffo, a 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 ridicule and sometimes insults. As the situation gets worse and the older brothers want to take the maquis, Roman and Anna decide to place their younger 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 A bag of marbles (1973) and actor:
SUNDAY 19 July 2020
Live broadcast of the national commemoration in memory of 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 CRIF.
