Study day Meeting followed by a screening
Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 2 PM
Make a history of the Jewish volunteers in the two world wars.
Organized with the Commission engaged volunteers Jewish veterans of the Shoah Memorial.
Inauguration of the monument dedicated to the foreign Jewish volunteers at the Parisian cemetery of Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) under the honorary presidency of the President of the Republic Vincent Auriol.France, on December 5, 1948. Shoah Memorial/UEVACJ-EA.
In 1914 as in 1939, tens of thousands of foreigners enlist in the French army to defend their adopted homeland. Among them are thousands of Jews. Their destiny during the Second World War will be both heroic and tragic in the face of the Holocaust. In order to encourage historical research and the teaching of this often unknown history, the Shoah Memorial proposes to return on these events and to present the numerous documentary resources available.
In the presence of:
Philippe Joutard, historian, honorary academy rector, emeritus professor of modern history, university of Provence Aix-Marseille I,
Rachid Azzouz, IA-IPR history-geography, Paris academy,
Bertrand Fonck, Chief Heritage Curator, Historical Archives Center of the Defense Historical Service
Patricia Gillet, chief heritage curator, head of the Second World War department at the National Archives,
Commander Yann Domenech of Celles, curator of the Foreign Legion museum, head of the History and Heritage Division of the Foreign Legion,
Karen Taieb, responsible for the archives of the Shoah Memorial,
Delphine Richard, doctoral student in contemporary history,
Arnold Bac and François Szulman, members of the commission Volunteers Jewish veterans of the Shoah Memorial.
followed by the projection of
The Fictional Regiments: heroes in the turmoil of 1940 by Robert Mugnerot
France, documentary, 52 min, Victorimage Production, with France Télévisions, 2010. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
The Foreign Volunteer March Regiments (RMVE) are made up of young people from all over the world, one third of whom are Jews from Eastern Europe and another third are republican Spaniards. These RMVE were part of the Legion. They were composed of about fifty nationalities, White Russians, Armenians, Italians, Poles, anti-Nazi Germans, Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, Republican Spaniards. They are poorly equipped, hence their nickname, and defend themselves with courage.
