Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition is located on level -1 of the Memorial and presents a chronological and thematic journey consisting of twelve sequences that retrace the history of the Jews of France during the Holocaust.
The history of the Jews in France during the Second World War
Photographs, texts, original documents, fac-similars, objects, films, sounds... address the history of the Shoah. Entering the exhibition, the visitor can follow on his left the journey concerning France, in which individual destinies are included, while on his right is exposed history at the European scale. A design that allows permanent back and forth between history and testimony, between collective history and individual history.
© JC Boussiquet
Several levels of reading and deepening are proposed: the first on the panels, the second in showcases and the last one in albums and interactive terminals arranged on consoles. Six short films punctuate the route. Throughout the exhibition, individual destinies are evoked in small horizontal display cases each containing a photograph and biography of an deported person, objects and documents that belonged to him.
By describing the mechanisms of operation that led to the extermination of nearly six million Jews, the exhibition aims to give everyone the tools for a reflection on history, and to lead them to ask questions about the present, in order to remain vigilant against a possible return to intolerance, whatever it may be.
© Florence Brochoire
The exhibition is organized in 12 sequences
Sequence 1 : Introduction to the history of the Jews of France
Sequence 2 : The rise of Nazism
Sequence 3 : In France, from the exclusion of Jews to the first camps / From ghettoization to massacre
Sequence 4 : The planned mass murder in Europe 1942: the deportation of the Jews from France
Sequence 5 : The extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Sequence 6 : The pillaging of the Jews in France
Sequence 7 : Civil society facing the persecution of Jews
Sequence 8 : Survive
Sequence 9 : Resist
Sequence 10 : Persecuted until the end of the war
Sequence 11 : The Liberation
Sequence 12 : The construction of the memory of the Shoah
Closing the permanent exhibition, the Memorial of the children includes to date 4920 photographs of deported Jewish children. These photographs, arranged in alphabetical order and collected by Serge Klarsfeld and the Shoah Memorial, are taken from the book Mémorial des enfants juifs déportés de France (éd. Les Fils et Filles des déportés de France).
TO READ
The Jews of France in the Holocaust, of Jacques Fredj, Shoah Memorial, 2011.
Catalog of the permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
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