Discover the Shoah Memorial from your home

The health crisis we are going through does not allow us to carry out our fundamental missions for the moment, as schools and all our spaces are closed to the public.

Nevertheless, we want to stay in touch with you during these difficult times. All our teams are mobilized to continue providing information and content, despite the constraints we are subject to.

On social networks, we will offer you a virtual walk through our permanent and temporary collections, invite you to discover or rediscover some of our resources, including archival documents, historical events, to listen to some of our lectures as well as testimonies from survivors.

Our online resources

Stroll through our permanent and temporary exhibitions

The Musée du Mémorial de la Shoah has a permanent exhibition: a chronological and thematic journey consisting of twelve sequences that retraces the history of the Jews of France during the Holocaust. This exhibition, based on the archives of the Documentation Center, proposes a back and forth between individual history and collective history.

In addition to this permanent exhibition, the museum presents each year temporary exhibitions that draw their themes from history, art and literature. They are open windows on the fate of the Jews in other European countries but also on the other genocides of the twentieth century.

We offer you a virtual tour through our permanent and temporary exhibitions, current and past, through exhibition mini-sites and archive documents:

The voices of witnesses

Shoah and comics

Béate and Serge Klarsfeld

The Art Market under occupation

Go behind the scenes of the Memorial

The Shoah Memorial originated during the war, with the creation in hiding of an archive fund to gather evidence of the persecution of Jews. The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation later doubles as the Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr.

We will travel together through time to rediscover the Memorial, from its beginnings to today.

Relive exceptional encounters in video

We invite you to relive exceptional testimonies, conferences and meetings in video on our YouTube channel:

Elie Wiesel, Robert Badinter, Jorge Semprùn, Claude Lanzman, Serge Klarsfeld, Ginette Kolinka, Marceline Loridan-Ivens...

Dive into our archives

The Shoah Memorial houses a documentation centre divided into three departments: archives, library and photo library. This archive, made up of more than one million documents, photos, books, archival films, posters, postcards and even objects is open to everyone, from the researcher to the student, who can come and consult archives on site in a unique space for information and the transmission of knowledge about the Shoah and, in particular, about the history of the Jews of France during the Second World War.

Regularly enriched since the creation of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in 1943 by donations and acquisitions of documents from witnesses of the Shoah, it constitutes a unique archive and a first-rate instrument to study the destruction of European Jews. We will share a few pieces with you, and invite you to delve into our online resources.

EXPLORez our educational resources

The Shoah Memorial has gathered and selected resources of various kinds for parents, teachers and educators wishing to introduce young people to the history of the Shoah or to deepen with their students a particular aspect of the period encompassing the Second World War and the persecution and destruction of European Jews:

Tools for teaching

Le grenier de Sarah, an introduction site to the history of the Shoah designed for primary school children, and more specifically for 8-12 year olds, with respect for the young visitor’s sensibilities.

Consult our publications

The edition of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah constitutes the emerging part of the research activity within the Memorial. Created in 1946, the journal deals with the history of the genocide of the Jews by Hitler’s Germany and the reflection it provokes in different cultural fields. It also opens its study to the other genocides of the twentieth century.

The RHS is accessible online for free on Cairn.info for issues published between 2005 and 2016.

We will be delighted to see you regularly on social media.

The Shoah Memorial team wishes you much courage during this period, as well as good health for you and your family.

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