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 raise an immense feeling of relief, joy, hope. However, 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 a refuge, resume an activity, imagine again a future. Here or elsewhere. Uncertainty and chaos reign everywhere, however.
In Poland, half of the refugees returned from the USSR and the few survivors of the Holocaust are fleeing again. In occupied Germany, more than 250,000 Jews are confined, like others, in camps for displaced persons, waiting for a place of reception or an opportunity to emigrate. In France, the authorities are setting up repatriation and reintegration schemes for 'racial' deportees, a minority among all other returnees. Although the Jews were victims of specific persecution, their fate is only one problem among others on a continental scale. The aid will therefore come from the Jewish communities themselves, which manage to rebuild 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.
Free entry – level 1
Hours: Every day, except Saturday, from 10 am to 6 pm and on Thursday until 10 pm
After the Shoah, booklet of the exhibition, Memorial of the Shoah, 2016. On sale at the bookstore of the Shoah Memorial or on theonline bookstore
Scientific Commission
Henry Rousso (CNRS) with Laure Fourtage (Paris 1), Julia Maspero (Paris 1), Constance Pâris de Bollardière (EHESS), Simon Perego (Sciences Po Paris).
General Commissariat and coordination
Marie-Edith Simonneaux Agostini, assisted by Yasmin Gebhard, Shoah Memorial.
Around the exhibition
The exhibition "After the Holocaust" is illuminated and complemented by various events: screenings, meetings, testimonies... Remember to book your seats online on the ticket office of our website or directly at the reception of the Memorial
