The decade 1968-1978 marks a new turning point in the memory of the Shoah in Europe and throughout the world, in a context of great political, social and cultural upheavals. The often resounding action of the couple formed by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld plays a major role in this evolution. 50 years after the slap administered by Beate Klarsfeld in 1968 to the West German chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and 40 years after the publication in 1978 by Serge Klarsfeld of the Memorial for the deportation of the Jews from France, the Shoah Memorial dedicates an exhibition to the work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in favor of the victims of the Holocaust, against the impunity of former officials of the Final Solution and against antisemitism.
Thanks to numerous documents and unpublished objects, the history and motivations of their commitments are fully restituted, joining those of a whole generation of which they remain symbols until today.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the struggles of memory (1968-1978) Booklet of the exhibition (Memorial of the Shoah, 2018) On sale at the Shoah Memorial bookstore
Curator of the exhibition: Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Shoah Memorial.
General coordination: Sophie Nagiscarde, head of the cultural activities department, Mémorial de la Shoah.
Research and documentation: Lior Lalieu-Smadja, head of the photo library, Shoah Memorial, Ariel Sion, head of the library, Shoah Memorial, Karen Taieb, head of archives, Shoah Memorial.
Cycle around the exhibition: Pauline Dubuisson, Livia Parnes, Shoah Memorial
