The Holocaust in Europe
This exhibition offers a global vision of the Holocaust in Europe, from the rise of Nazism to the exercise of power until the Nuremberg trials.
This exhibition offers a global vision of the Holocaust in Europe, from the rise of Nazism to the exercise of power until the Nuremberg trials.
Through the evocation of antisemitism erected as state policy, forms of exclusion of Jews from French society and the consequences of collaboration, this exhibition highlights in particular the dramatic turning point that the year 1942 represents for the fate of the Jewish populations in France.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau complex occupies a quite singular place in the history of the genocide of the Jews. It was there that the murder of Jews by Nazi Germany was carried out over the longest period, with the most sophisticated technical means and, in the end, the deadliest record.
"Century of genocides", the 20th century remains marked by the will of the powers in place to carry out a physical, intentional, systematic and planned destruction of a group or part of an ethnic group.
The exhibition traces the history of the genocides that marked the 20th century, then focuses more precisely on describing the genesis of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, the context in which it took place and presents in particular drawings made by children who witnessed the genocide.
During the First World War, the Union and Progress committee, a party-state with exclusive nationalism governing the Ottoman Empire, implemented the systematic destruction of its Armenian and Syriac subjects, thus breaking with the multi-ethnic imperial tradition.
During the two world wars, the Jews of France massively joined the French armies, notably within the Foreign Legion.
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