Yom HaShoah 2017 Reading the names of Jewish deportees from France
Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 18h April 24, 2017 at 5:30 PM
Under the auspices of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
Memorial of the Shoah / Pierre-Emmanuel Weck
On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, the date chosen by the State of Israel for the commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance during the Second World War, a 24-hour uninterrupted public reading takes place, day and night. Of the 76,000 names inscribed on the Wall of Names, the names of the people deported from France by convoys n° 32 to n° 70 will be pronounced one by one. Some 200 people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... will take turns to read, from the lists from Serge Klarsfeld’s Deportation Memorial Book (Association of FFDJF), the names of "those whose only name remains" (Simone Veil).
see the ceremony live
READING THE NAMES OF THE JEWISH DEPORTEES FROM FRANCE
From Sunday, April 23 at 5 PM to Monday, April 24 at 5:30 PM at the Shoah Memorial
Official ceremony
At 5 PM 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 deaths from the Shoah. This will be followed by the testimony of Ginette Kolinka, a former deportee.
Reading the names
From 6 PM 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 PM.
COMMEMORATIONS, READINGS, MEETINGS AND SCREENINGS DURING THE READING OF NAMES
Sunday 23 April 2017
Office of Yom HaShoah
At 3:00 PM at the MJLF Beaugrenelle
Meeting
Facing the Shoah: the word of children – At 7:30 PM at the Shoah Memorial
Organized by the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EEIF).
Deported children, children of deportees, saved children, through their narrative, the memory of the Shoah reaches today’s children. From the words of the testimony to the expected responses of the historian and the educator, dialogue around the current challenges 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 24 April 2017
Reading of the Kaddish organized by the Consistory
At 8:30 AM at the Shoah Memorial (The siren will be back at 9 AM in Israel)
Screenings (free entry by reservation)
Auschwitz-Lutetia of Pascal Magontier – At 11:30 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 survives his deportation and the 'Marches de la mort'. 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 who witnesses his own survival and 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 PM at the Shoah Memorial
(France, documentary, 80 min, self-production, 2016)
Hidden former children deliver their memories in front of the camera. In turn, the witnesses, Georges Loinger, Liliane Klein-Lieber, Frida Wattenberg, from the work of Rescue to Children and Scouts Israelites of France, share their dreams and disappointments. In all simplicity, stories take shape, upsetting and funny at times, of these tragic years.
In the presence of the director, Jacinta, singer, and witnesses.
BOOK
Reading of the Sefer HaShoah – At 3:00 PM at the Shoah Memorial.
Reading of the final Kaddish – At 6:00 PM at the Shoah Memorial.
Solemn Office of the Consistory of Paris – At 7:00 PM at the synagogue in Nazareth.
PROGRAMME (PDF)
In partnership with the Liberal Jewish Movement of France (MJLF), the Association of Sons and Daughters of Deported Jews of France (FFDJF) at the initiative of this ceremony, and the Consistory of Paris.
