This exhibition was presented at the Shoah Memorial from January 27 to November 20, 2016.
After the disaster. The liberation of Europe and the end of the Second World War evoke an immense feeling of relief, joy and hope. Yet the return to a normal life seems scarcely possible for the Jews of Europe who were able to escape the general destruction organized by the Nazis and their local accomplices. Despite everything, the survivors all aspire to find their loved ones, return home or find a refuge, resume an activity, imagine again a future. Here or elsewhere. However, uncertainty and chaos reign everywhere.
In Poland, half of the refugees returning from the USSR and the few survivors of the Holocaust are fleeing again. In occupied Germany, more than 250,000 Jews are herded, like others, into camps for the displaced, waiting for a place of refuge or an opportunity to emigrate. In France, the authorities are putting in place mechanisms for repatriating and reintegrating "racial" deportees, a minority among all other returnees. Although the Jews have been the victims of specific persecution, their fate is only one problem among others on a continental scale. The help will therefore come from the Jewish communities themselves, which manage to reconstitute a religious, cultural and political life. The after is not only a period when the Jews were assisted, it is the moment when they take back control of their destiny.
For individuals: on Thursdays, September 8 and 22, October 13 and 27, and November 10, 2016 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Free without prior reservation.
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Après la Shoah, booklet of the exhibition, éd. Mémorial de la Shoah, 2016.
For sale at the Shoah Memorial bookstore or on the
Henry Rousso (CNRS) with Laure Fourtage (Paris 1), Julia Maspero (Paris 1), Constance Pâris de Bollardière (EHESS), Simon Perego (Sciences Po Paris).
Marie-Edith Simonneaux Agostini, assisted by Yasmin Gebhard, Shoah Memorial.
