Find all the sites of the temporary exhibitions that have been presented at the Shoah Memorial to help understand the history of the Holocaust and the genocides of the 20th century.
After the disaster. The liberation of Europe and the end of the Second World War raise an immense feeling of relief, joy, hope. Yet, the return to a normal life seems hardly possible for the Jews of Europe who were able to escape the general destruction organized by the Nazis and their local accomplices...
The mobilization of women during the war was unprecedented. Yet their place in resistance movements, like the reality of Jewish resistance, have long been ignored. The exhibition proposed by the Memorial with Casterman editions does them justice.
During the First World War, the Union and Progress committee, a party-state with exclusive nationalism governing the Ottoman Empire, implemented the systematic destruction of its Armenian and Syriac subjects, thus breaking with the multi-ethnic imperial tradition.
Today, 70 years after the liberation of the camps, everyone remembers the terrible images that photographers reported. Only the Soviet cinema operators, during the reconquest of lost ground (1942-1943), then the conquest of the Baltic countries, Poland and the eastern German territories (1944-1945) were able to film on the most important sites [...]
The invasion of Poland in September 1939 marks the beginning of the Second World War. In the territories annexed to the East, the German army gathers the Jewish inhabitants in very quickly overcrowded and unsanitary ghettos. First stage of the genocidal process of the Jewish population of central Europe, the ghettos are liquidated in 1942-1943 and their population led [...]
Between 7 April and mid-July 1994, about one million people died murdered in Rwanda: within three months, three quarters of the Tutsi population perished during the last genocide of the 20th century.
The policy of spoliation of Jews initiated by the German state, based on a legal mechanism, is becoming widespread. It is soon exported to the occupied territories and adopted by the regimes allied to the Reich, like Vichy. The French State integrated the principles into its anti-Semitic policy as early as 1940. To this end, it enacted an arsenal [...]
Heinrich Himmler in a speech delivered at Posen in October 1943 declares: "I did not feel indeed the right to exterminate men [...] and to let grow children who would take revenge on our children and descendants. It was necessary to make the serious decision to make this people disappear from the earth.
On May 23, 1960, at 4 p.m., the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion climbed to the rostrum of the Knesset, the parliament, for an announcement as brief as it was spectacular. Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi criminal, was captured a few days earlier in Argentina where he was hiding and is in Jerusalem to be tried. Thus begins one of the most significant events of [...]
Born in 1903, Irène Némirovsky was fifteen years old when revolutionary unrest drove her out of Russia with her family. It was in Paris, at eighteen years old, that she published her first tales. A month later, an implacable novel, immediately translated worldwide and brought to the screen, made his fame: David Golder.
Jewish resistance or resistance of the Jews, dedicated to saving or fighting the oppressor, they participated with courage in the liberation of the French territory, to the great displeasure of those who convey the myth of a certain Jewish passivity.
Sixty-five years ago, the world discovered the films made by the Allies in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Of these images that have come to us, we know little or not the authors and even less the conditions of their realization. The Memorial chose to follow the journey of three of the producers of these images, filmmakers from Hollywood: [...]
Hélène Berr was 21 years old in 1942. Parisian, a student at the Sorbonne, she kept her diary from April 1942 to February 1944. This text, of an exceptional literary quality, mixes the daily experience of the unbearable and the dreamed world of letters, alternating at every moment between hope and despair.
Jewish writer born in Romania, Benjamin Fondane, already recognized in his country, settles in Paris at the age of 25. Poet, thinker, playwright and filmmaker, resolutely "modern" and attentive to the avant-garde, he nevertheless keeps his distance from schools and doctrines, political and literary movements and seeks his own way, his personal response [...]
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the "Night of Broken Glass", the Shoah Memorial has chosen to return to this central date, the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, which marks a stage in the Nazi policy of violence and anti-Semitic persecutions.
On the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel (14 May 1948), the exhibition Alyah Beth organized by the Shoah Memorial from 6 May to 5 October 2008 evokes the clandestine departures of Jews from France towards Eretz Israel (Hebrew name of Palestine) between 1945 and 1948.
Between May 1941 and July 1942, at the initiative of the Nazi authorities in the occupied zone, the Vichy regime interned thousands of men and then women and children in the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande located in Loiret. Some of these internees made in the camps' workshops, objects, gifts from a father to his children, [...]
Between 1941 and 1944, nearly one and a half million Jews from Ukraine were murdered after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Only a minority of them were killed after their deportation to the extermination camps.
From 15 December 2006 to 29 April 2007, the Memorial hosted an exhibition dedicated to the clandestine archives of the Warsaw ghetto, the "Ringelblum Archive".
For more than 10 years, the Shoah Memorial has organized annual study trips to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland, supervised by survivors and accompanying historians.
A part of Shlomo Selinger’s works was presented at the Memorial. Through his sculptures and drawings, Shlomo Selinger translates the Holocaust of which he was a victim. Deported at the age of thirteen and a half, he was interned in 9 concentration camps. Orphan, he learns to live again and leaves immediately after the war in Israel, where his wife and son will be a source [...]
Between 1904 and 1908, about 80% of the Herero and 50% of the Nama were exterminated: a crime in African colonial history considered as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Contemporary memory holds a special place for the Shoah, an unprecedented event in history. The characteristic of any event is to be historicized, mediated, in short to become a subject of fiction. The Shoah could not escape it. Not without caution, errors and trial and error but also with genius, the comic strip thus took hold of the Holocaust.
Delivered to the French justice on 5 February 1983, Klaus Barbie, former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, was tried by the Cour d'assises du Rhône, in Lyon, from 11 May to 4 July 1987. This is the first trial for crimes against humanity in France.
Fifty years after the slap administered by Beate Klarsfeld in 1968 to the West German chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and forty years after the publication in 1978 by Serge Klarsfeld of the Memorial for the deportation of the Jews of France, the Shoah Memorial traces the work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in favor of the victims of the Holocaust and knowledge [...]
August Sander (1876-1964) is the author of many iconic photographs of the 20th century. At the end of the First World War, while nurturing an intellectual exchange with the avant-garde circle of the Progressives of Cologne, he undertook to draw a photographic portrait of German society in the Weimar Republic. This project, titled [...]
From October 1940 to May 1946, nearly 6,700 people, mostly French, including a large number of children, were interned in more than thirty camps for nomads located throughout the metropolitan area.
For the first time since its reopening in 2005, the Mémorial de la Shoah offers the entirety of its temporary exhibition space to contemporary artistic creation, with 5 works, installations from French contemporary art figures: Sylvie Blocher (with Gérard Haller), Arnaud Cohen, Natacha Nisic, Esther Shalev-Gerz, as well as a proposal for [...]
