Yom HaShoah 2017 Reading the names of Jewish deportees from France

Shoah Memorial / Pierre-Emmanuel Weck

On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, the date chosen by the State of Israel to commemorate the victims of the Shoah and the heroes of the Jewish resistance during the Second World War, an uninterrupted public reading takes place 24 hours a day, day and night. Of the 76,000 names inscribed on the Wall of Names, the names of those deported from France by convoys no. 32 to no. 70 will be pronounced one by one. Some 200 people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... will take turns to read, from the lists from the Memorial Deportation Book of Serge Klarsfeld, (published by the Association of FFDJF), the names of "those whose only name remains" (Simone Veil).

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READING THE NAMES OF JEWISH DEPORTEES FROM FRANCE
From Sunday, April 23 at 5 p.m. to Monday, April 24 at 5:30 p.m. at the Shoah Memorial

Official ceremony
At 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 23, 2017

Six candles of remembrance will be lit by former deportees and children, a symbol of the transmission of the memory of the 6 million dead of the Shoah. Then follows the testimony of Ginette Kolinka, a former deportee.

Reading Names
From 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 23

At the end of the official ceremony, the reading of names will continue day and night until the next evening around 5 p.m.

COMMEMORATIONS, READINGS, MEETINGS AND SCREENINGS DURING THE READING OF NAMES

→ Sunday, April 23, 2017

Office of Yom HaShoah
At 3:00 PM at the MJLF Beaugrenelle

Meeting
Facing the Shoah: children’s voices – At 7:30 p.m. at the Shoah Memorial
Organized by the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EEIF).

Children deported, children of deportees, children saved, through their story, the memory of the Shoah reaches today’s children. From the words of the testimony to the answers expected from the historian and the educator, dialogue around current issues of transmission.

In the presence of Evelyn Askolovitch and Georges Loinger, witnesses, Jean-Jacques Moscovitz, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, author of Rêver de réparer l'histoire and Katy Hazan, historian, head of the Archives and History department at the OSE. Led by Charles Tenenbaum, lecturer at the IEP in Paris.

BOOK

→ Monday, April 24, 2017

Reading of the Kaddish organized by the Consistory
At 8:30 am at the Shoah Memorial (The mermaid will be released at 9 AM in Israel)

Screenings (free entry upon reservation)

Auschwitz-Lutetia from Pascal Magontier – At 11:30 AM at the Shoah Memorial
(France, documentary, 58mn, IO productions and France 3 Limoges, 2000)

Deported to Auschwitz by convoy No. 36 in September 1942, Marcel Bercau survived his deportation and the "Death marches". He will wait more than fifty years to testify. His vision of the world, born from an inconceivable experience for those who have not lived it, is at the heart of Auschwitz-Lutetia which tells the story of Marcel Bercau in what is unique: a man witnessing his own survival and his return to life.

In the presence of the director and Hélène Bercau, daughter of Marcel, Dominique Pailler and Marc Wilmart, producers of the film.

BOOK

Projection
The children of the war of Andras Solymos Schlamadinger – At 2:00 p.m. at the Shoah Memorial
(France, documentary, 80 mn, self-production, 2016)

Former hidden children share their memories in front of the camera. In turn, the witnesses, Georges Loinger, Liliane Klein-Lieber, Frida Wattenberg, of the work Secours aux Enfants and Les Eclaireuses Israélites de France, confide their dreams and their disappointments. In all simplicity, stories take shape, upsetting and sometimes funny, of these tragic years.

In the presence of the director, Jacinta, singer, and witnesses.

BOOK

Reading of the Sefer HaShoah – 3:00 PM at the Shoah Memorial.

Reading of the final Kaddish – 6:00 p.m. at the Shoah Memorial.

Solemn office of the Consistory of Paris – At 7:00 p.m. in the synagogue of Nazareth.

PROGRAMME (PDF)

In partnership with the Mouvement juif libéral de France (MJLF), the Association des Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (FFDJF) at the initiative of this ceremony, and the Consistoire de Paris.