In the second quarter of 2024, the Shoah Memorial launches a new exhibition: Paris 1924-Paris 2024: The Olympic Games, a mirror of societies – on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024. The exhibitions Foreigners in the Resistance in France – around the panthenization of Missak Manouchian – and Rwanda 1994 – as part of the 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi – continue with, in particular, a cycle including six documentaries in progress First in connection with this commemoration.
Through our cycle History in the Present dedicated to the year 1944, we propose, among other things, a tribute to Jean Zay and, also in preview, the documentary Sabine Zlatin or the impossible forgetting of Daniel Cling, as part of the 80th commemoration of the Izieu children’s raid.
Among the major events of the Auditorium, you can expect two events of international scope: the symposium Quantifying the Holocaust, which brings together researchers in history, demography, geography, sociology and applied mathematics, and a study day that questions the practices of collecting, preserving and valuing Holocaust objects in the 21st century.
As part of a new partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville, we are presenting three readings, based on the works of Dominique Celis, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and Agnès Desarthe.
We commemorate, through official ceremonies and special meetings, the uprising of the ghetto of Warsaw and the Vel d'Hiv raid, and we mark the National Day of Remembrance for the victims and heroes of the Deportation, the National Day of Resistance, and Yom HaShoah, a ceremony to read the names of the victims of the Holocaust and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance.
The Memorial hosts artists at national events: Nuit blanche, European Night of Museums – a musical reading with Patrick Timsit – and Fête de la musique – the Dan Gharibian Trio and Josef, Josef.
At the end of August, Ciné Parvis shows three films related to the Olympic Games exhibition.
At the Shoah Memorial in Drancy, the exhibition Paris 1924-Paris 2024: the Olympic Games, a mirror of societies continues. Les Rendez-vous de Drancy captures literary news, hosts screenings of fiction and documentaries, and honours the precious testimonies of a Holocaust survivor and a hidden child.
We look forward to seeing you at one of these meetings, either at the Memorial or online, to take advantage of this cultural offer that makes the Memorial an indispensable place of reflection and education, today more than ever.
Jacques Fredj, Director
