Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day Commemorative educational 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 National Bleuet of France and ten institutions in charge of places of remembrance related to the persecution, internment, deportation and extermination of the Jews of France.

Places of events:

– European Centre of the Deported Resistant, (Bas-Rhin)
– Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation, Lyon (Rhône)
– House of Izieu (Ain)
– Memorial of the Shoah, Paris, Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
– Memorial of internment and deportation, Royallieu camp, Compiègne (Oise)
– Montluc Memorial (Rhône)
– Center 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 (Eastern Pyrenees)
– Foundation of the Camp des Milles (Bouches-du-Rhône)
– Place of memory of Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire)