Memory and study of deportation convoys

Sunday 06 November 2016 at 2:30 PM

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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 you to meet the associations that carry their memory and to share research, documentation and testimony about them.

From 10am to 6pm

deposit of archives: exceptional permanence 

People 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 convoi 73

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

exhibition

Pithiviers-Auschwitz, July 17, 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 convoi 73, Franck Marché (convoi 8), Claude Hess (convoy 68), Chantal Dossin (convoi 76), Nina Winograd (convoi 66).

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

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