Drawing by Jacques Gotko from the Compiègne camp, December 1941. Shoah Memorial.
The year 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the roundup of 12 December 1941 in Paris, and the execution of 75 hostages at Mont-Valérien on 15 December 1941. These two events mark the beginning of a turning point in the implementation of the Final Solution in France, between "the policy of hostages" and the deportation of French Jews as part of the genocide.
In the presence of Serge Klarsfeld, historian and lawyer, president of the association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish deportees from France, Thomas Fontaine, historian, and Antoine Grande, director of the Hauts lieux de la mémoire nationale d'Île-de-France, ONACVG.
Led by Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Shoah Memorial.
This meeting is followed by a commemoration at 5.30 p.m. (see below)
