Yom HaShoah, reading of names

Shoah Day – Yom HaShoah in Hebrew – commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance during the Second World War. On the occasion of this day organized at the Shoah Memorial, a public reading is made of the names of the victims, continuously 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 the people deported from France by convoys 1 to 31 as well as the names entered on lists 90 and 91.

Some 200 people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... will read in turn, from the lists from Serge Klarsfeld’s Deportation Memorial Book, the names of "those whose only name remains", to use 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 Liberal Jewish Movement of France (MJLF), the Association of Sons and Daughters of Deported Jews of France (FFDJF) which is at the initiative of this ceremony, and the Consistory of Paris.