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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, 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 Shoah Memorial in Drancy. If this flow of visitors is particularly encouraging, we hope to improve it further over time.

On the program, this quarter, the activities are numerous. Don’t miss the appointments of September with the heritage days, and of November, with the Month of the documentary film. On Sunday 17 September, you will have the opportunity to attend a literary encounter, a screening of a film on the archival collection work carried out by the Memorial’s documentalists, 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 Paris Memorial, 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, fighters for memory for fifty years.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Jacques Fredj, director

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