This exhibition was presented at the Shoah Memorial from 27 January to 20 November 2016.
After the disaster. The liberation of Europe and the end of the Second World War evoked a great sense of relief, joy and hope. Yet the return to a normal life seems hardly 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 refuge, resume an activity, imagine a future again. Here or elsewhere. But uncertainty and chaos prevail everywhere.
In Poland, half of the refugees who returned from the USSR and the few survivors of the Holocaust are fleeing again. In occupied Germany, more than 250,000 Jews are housed, like others, in camps for displaced persons, waiting for a place to receive them or for the opportunity to emigrate. In France, the authorities set up repatriation and reintegration schemes for «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 in hand their destiny.
Free entry – level 1
Hours: Every day, except Saturday, from 10 am to 6 pm and Thursday until 10 pm
After the Shoah, exhibition booklet, ed. Memorial de la Shoah, 2016. On sale at the bookstore of the Holocaust Memorial or on theonline bookstore
Scientific Commissariat
Henry Rousso (CNRS) with Laure Fourtage (Paris 1), Julia Maspero (Paris 1), Constance Pâris de Bollardière (EHESS), Simon Perego (Sciences Po Paris).
General Commissioner and Coordination
Marie-Edith Simonneaux Agostini, assisted by Yasmin Gebhard, Memorial de la Shoah.
Around the exhibition
The exhibition «After the Shoah» is illuminated and completed by various events: projections, meetings, testimonies... Consider booking your tickets online on our website or directly at the Memorial reception
