The history of the Holocaust in Denmark represents an exception in European history. The majority of Danish Jews managed to escape to Sweden with the help of the Danish Resistance and a few thousand Danish citizens, but also thanks to their own initiative.
This exhibition proposes to discover the images of Matt Mendelsohn made during the research conducted with his brother Daniel prior to the writing of the novel Les Disparus (ed. Flammarion, 2007). 35 original photographs, as well as letters and family photographs evoked in the work of Daniel Mendelsohn are presented, allowing to browse their moving [...]
Through the plates of Swedish comic strip authors, this exhibition highlights both the heritage value of Art Spiegelman’s work and the use of the 9th art as a medium for transmitting the history of the Shoah. Mus / Mouse / Maus is also an opportunity to discover the culture of Swedish comics, the richness of its modes [...]
In Europe subjected to the German yoke, whether it is the territories occupied by the Third Reich or in the countries allied with it, all forms of opposition are muzzled. The arts, literature and press are closely controlled and put at the service of authoritarian regimes.
Not without caution, errors and trial and error, sometimes with genius, the comic strip has taken on a subject as universal as it is unspeakable: the Holocaust.
In the spring of 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the good sheets of La Grande rafle du Vel d'Hiv', July 16, 1942 by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this series in five episodes, the editorial team calls upon a young 29-year-old illustrator, Jean Cabut, dit Cabu. The work of Lévy and Tillard retraces, through documents and testimonies, [...]
