In September 2012, the Shoah Memorial of Drancy opened its doors thanks to an initiative of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. We wanted to mark this anniversary through the exhibition, conducted in partnership with the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, of drawings by an internee, Georges Horan-Koiransky, on the dramatic daily life of thousands of Jews locked up in the camp of Drancy. Nearly 25,000 annual visitors, young people and adults, regularly follow the activities of the Drancy Shoah Memorial. If this flow of visitors is particularly encouraging, we hope to improve it further over time.
This quarter, the activities are numerous. Don’t miss the events of September with the Heritage Days, and of November, with the Documentary Film Month. On Sunday 17 September, you will have the opportunity to attend a literary meeting, a screening of a film on the work of archival collection carried out by the Memorial’s documentalists, and to take a guided tour in the Marais, or even the site of the former camp and the Drancy Memorial. In November, we invite you to see, at the auditorium of the Memorial de Paris, one of the 15 documentaries screened!
Finally, at a time when civic engagement is encouraged, the Memorial invites you to reflect on this notion through an unprecedented exhibition, which will be inaugurated next December, on the exemplary story of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who have fought for memory for fifty years.
We look forward to seeing you!
Jacques Fredj, director
