Report and study of deportation convoys

Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM

© Pierre-Emmanuel Weck→ 2:30 p.m.

Deportation convoys: what historical research?

The study of the 75 deportation convoys that left from France reveals the phases of the policy of the French state and the occupier in the hunt for the Jews. This day invites to meet the associations that carry their memory and to share research, documentation and testimony about them.

→ From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

depositing archives: exceptional permanence 

Those wishing to submit documents on that day will have to go to the reading room.

exhibition

Convoy 73, a particular convoy
Presented by the association convoy 73

→ From Sunday 6 to Thursday 10 November 2016, from 10am to 6pm

exhibition

Pithiviers-Auschwitz, 17 July 1942: a train among many others
Presented by the association Mémoires du convoi 6
Janus Korczak Room, 2nd floor – Free admission

In the presence of Alexandre Borycki, president of the association Mémoires du convoi 6, Georges Mayer, honorary consul of France at Beer Sheva and president of the association Familles et Amis des déportés du convoi 77, Louise Cohen and Henri Bitran, association convoy 73, Franck Marché (convoy 8), Claude Hess (convoy 68), Chantal Dossin (convoy 76), Nina Winograd (convoy 66).

Led by Sophie Nagiscarde, head of the cultural activities department at Mémorial de la Shoah, and Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects at Mémorial de la Shoah.

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