Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day Educational commemorative events

In 2002, the European Ministers of Education adopted at the initiative of the Council of Europe the declaration establishing the Holocaust Remembrance and Crimes against Humanity Prevention Day in the schools of the Member States. France and the UN have retained the date of 27 January, day of the discovery of the Auschwitz camp by the Soviet Army, to institute this day of remembrance.

On this occasion, the Shoah Memorial coordinates, with the support of the Ministry of Defense – Directorate of Memory, Heritage and Archives (SGA / DMPA) and the National Office of Veterans and War Victims (ONACVG), throughout the national territory, commemorative and educational events, in partnership with the Bleuet de France national organization and ten institutions responsible for places of remembrance related to the persecution, internment, deportation, and extermination of Jews in France.

Places of events:

– European Centre of the Deported Resister, (Bas-Rhin)
– Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation, Lyon (Rhône)
– Maison d'Izieu (Ain)
– Memorial of the Shoah, Paris, Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
– Memorial of internment and deportation, Royallieu camp, Compiègne (Oise)
– Montluc (Rhône) Memorial
– Centre for study and research on internment camps in the Loiret and Jewish deportation, Orléans (Loiret)
– Amicale du camp de Gurs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
– Memorial of the Camp de Rivesaltes (Pyrénées-Orientales)
– Foundation of the Camp des Milles (Bouches-du-Rhône)
– Place of memory of Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire)