Find all the sites of temporary exhibitions that were presented at the Shoah Memorial to help understand the history of the Shoah and the genocides of the twentieth century.
After the disaster. The liberation of Europe and the end of the Second World War evoked a great sense of relief, joy and hope. Yet the return to 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 the resistance movements, as the reality of the 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 that governed the Ottoman Empire, carried out 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 have reported. Only the Soviet cinema operators, in the course of the reconquest of the lost ground (1942-1943), and then of the conquest of the Baltic countries, Poland and the East German territories (1944-1945), were able to film on the most important [...]
The invasion of Poland in September 1939 marked the beginning of World War II. In the territories annexed to the East, the German army gathers the Jewish inhabitants in ghettos very quickly overcrowded and unsanitary. First stage of the genocidal process of the Jewish population in 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 in Rwanda: in less than three months, three quarters of the Tutsi population perished during the last genocide of the 20th century.
The policy of plunder of Jews initiated by the German state, based on a legal device, is generalized. It was soon exported to the occupied territories and adopted by regimes allied with the Reich, such as Vichy. The French State incorporated its principles in 1940 as part of its anti-Semitic policy. To this end, it issued an arsenal [...]
Heinrich Himmler in a speech at Posen in October 1943 declared: I did not feel entitled to exterminate men [...] and let grow up children who would take revenge on our children and descendants. It was necessary to make the serious decision to wipe this people off the face of the earth.”
On May 23, 1960, at 4:00 p.m., the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went up to the podium of the Knesset, the parliament, for a brief and spectacular announcement. Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi criminal, was captured a few days earlier in Argentina where he was hiding and is in Jerusalem to be tried. This is the beginning of one of the most significant events in [...]
Born in 1903, Irène Némirovsky is fifteen years old when the revolutionary troubles drive her and her family out of Russia. It was in Paris, at the age of eighteen, 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 the rescue or fighting the oppressor, they participated with courage in the liberation of the French territory, to the great displeasure of those who spread 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. From these images that have reached us, we know little or nothing about the authors and even less about the conditions of their realization. The Memorial has chosen 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 daily from April 1942 to February 1944. This text, of 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 a 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 “Crystal Night”, the Shoah Memorial chose to revisit this central date, the night from 9 to 10 November 1938, which marks a milestone in Nazi policy with regard to anti-Semitic violence and persecution.
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 departure of Jews from France to Eretz Israël (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 proceeded to the internment of thousands of men then women and children in the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande located in the Loiret. Some of these interns made in the workshops of the camps, objects, gifts from a father to his children, [...]
Between 1941 and 1944, nearly one and a half million Ukrainian Jews were murdered after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Only a minority of them were killed after their deportation to the death camps.
From 15 December 2006 to 29 April 2007, the Memorial hosted an exhibition devoted to the clandestine archives of the Warsaw ghetto, the «Ringelblum Archives».
For more than 10 years, the Shoah Memorial has been organizing study trips to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland every year, supervised by survivors and accompanying historians.
Part of Shlomo Selinger’s work was presented at the Memorial. Through his sculptures and drawings, Shlomo Selinger translates the Shoah of which he was a victim. Deported at the age of thirteen and a half, he was interned in 9 concentration camps.Orphaned, he learns to live again and leaves immediately after the war for 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 to be the first genocide of the 20th century.
Contemporary memory has a special place for the Shoah, an unprecedented event in history. The characteristic of any event is to be historicized, mediatized, in short to become a subject of fiction. The Shoah could not escape it. Not without prudence, errors and trial and error but also with genius, the comic strip has taken hold of the Shoah.
Delivered to the French courts on 5 February 1983, Klaus Barbie, the former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, is tried by the assize court of the Rhone 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 Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France, the Holocaust Memorial retraces the work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in favor of the victims of the Shoah and of 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 he was engaged in an intellectual exchange with the avant-garde circle of the Cologne Progressives, he began to draw a photographic portrait of the German society of the Weimar Republic. This project, entitled [...]
From October 1940 to May 1946, almost 6,700 people, mostly French, including a large number of children, were interned in more than thirty camps for nomads located throughout the metropolitan territory.
For the first time since its reopening in 2005, the Memorial de la Shoah offers its entire temporary exhibition space to contemporary artistic creation, with 5 works, installations from figures of French contemporary art: Sylvie Blocher (with Gérard Haller), Arnaud Cohen, Natacha Nisic, Esther Shalev-Gerz, as well as a proposal from [...]
