Holocaust Remembrance and Crimes against Humanity Prevention Day Throughout France

Events organized at the UNESCO House

Exhibitions

The Night of Broken Glass (Shoah Memorial) from January 22 to February 3 (Room Miro)

The stolen memory (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 educational events 26 January 2018

In 2002, the European Ministers of Education adopted, on the initiative of the Council of Europe, a declaration establishing the Day for the Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity in Educational Establishments in the Member States. France and the UN chose the date of 27 January, the date of the discovery of the Auschwitz camp by the Soviet Army, 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 events and educational purposes, in partnership with the national work of the Bleuet de France and twelve institutions in charge of places of remembrance related to persecution, the internment, deportation, and extermination of the Jews of France.

Places of events:

– Amicale du camp de Gurs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
– Center for the history of resistance and deportation, Lyon (Rhône)
– European Centre of the Deported Resistant / Site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp - Struthof, (Bas-Rhin)
– Center for study and research on internment camps in the Loiret and Jewish deportation/ Memorial Museum of Vel'd'Hiv children, 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 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 (Eastern Pyrenees)
– National Memorial of the prison of Montluc (Rhône)
– Mont-Valérien
– Memorial site of the Camp des Milles (Bouches-du-Rhône)

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