Yom HaShoah, reading names

Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yom HaShoah in Hebrew – commemorates the victims of the Shoah and heroes of the Jewish resistance during World War II. On the occasion of this day organized at the Shoah Memorial, a public reading is made of the names of the victims, uninterruptedly for 24 hours, day and night.

This year, some of the 76,000 names inscribed on the Memorial’s Wall of Names will be pronounced, one by one. These are the names of people deported from France by convoys no. 1 to no. 31 as well as the names entered on lists 90 and 91.

Some 200 people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... will take turns to read, from the lists from Serge Klarsfeld’s Memorial Deportation Book, the names of "those whose only name remains," in the words of Simone Veil.

The event is organized under the aegis of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, in partnership with the Mouvement juif libéral de France (MJLF), the Association des Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (FFDJF) which is at the initiative of this ceremony, and the Consistory of Paris.