Day of Holocaust Remembrance and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Throughout France

Events organized at the UNESCO House

Exhibitions

La Nuit de Cristal (Shoah Memorial) from January 22 to February 3 (Miro Room)

La mémoire volée (International Research Service) from January 16 to February 29 (Grids)

Projection (in partnership with Synecdoche and ARTE France)

The Four Sisters: The Hippocratic Oath – Ruth Elias, directed by Claude Lanzmann
followed by speeches by the Director-General of UNESCO and Claude Lanzmann

Round-table

Holocaust remembrance and education: our shared responsibility.
In the presence of Serge Klarsfeld, honorary ambassador and special envoy of UNESCO, Henri Rousso, historian, CNRS, France, Floriane Hohenberg, Director, International Research Service, Germany. Moderated by Claire Mayot, assistant producer, La Grande Table France Culture.

Other commemorative events for educational purposes → 26 January 2018

In 2002, on the initiative of the Council of Europe, the European Ministers for Education adopted a declaration establishing a Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and of the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity in Schools in the member states. France and the UN have chosen the date of 27 January, when the Soviet Army discovered the Auschwitz camp, to establish this day of remembrance. On this occasion, the Shoah Memorial coordinates, with the support of the Ministry of the Armed Forces – Directorate of Heritage, Memory and Archives (DPMA), the National Office of Veterans and War Victims (ONACVG) and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah throughout the national territory, commemorative and educational events, in partnership with the National Organization of the Cornflower of France and twelve institutions responsible for places of remembrance related to persecution, the internment, deportation, and extermination of Jews in France.

Places of the demonstrations:

– Amicale du camp de Gurs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
– Center for the history of resistance and deportation, Lyon (Rhône)
– European Center for Deported Resistance Fighters / Site of the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, (Bas-Rhin)
– Centre for study and research on the internment camps in Loiret and Jewish deportation / Memorial Museum of the children of the Vel’d'Hiv, Orléans (Loiret)
– Place of memory of Chambonsur-Lignon (Haute-Loire)
– House of Izieu (Ain)
– Shoah Memorial, Paris, Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
– Memorial of the internment and deportation, Camp de Royallieu, Compiègne (Oise)
– Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation on the Île de la Cité in Paris
– Memorial of the Camp de Rivesaltes (Pyrénées-Orientales)
– National Memorial of the Montluc prison (Rhône)
– Mont-Valérien
– Memorial Site of the Camp des Milles (Bouches-du-Rhône)

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