Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day Commemorative educational events

In 2002, on the initiative of the Council of Europe, the European Ministers for Education adopted a declaration establishing Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day in the schools of the Member States. France and the UN have chosen the date of January 27, the day the Soviet Army discovered the Auschwitz camp, to establish 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 for Veterans and War Victims (ONACVG), throughout the national territory, commemorative and educational events, in partnership with the National Organization of the Cornflower of France and ten institutions responsible for places of remembrance related to the persecution, internment, deportation and extermination of the Jews of France.

Places of the demonstrations:

– European Centre for Deported Resistance Fighters, (Bas-Rhin)
– Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation, Lyon (Rhône)
– House of Izieu (Ain)
– Shoah Memorial, Paris, Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
– Memorial of internment and deportation, Royallieu camp, Compiègne (Oise)
– Montluc Memorial (Rhône)
– Centre for study and research on the internment camps in 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)