Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition is located on level -1 of the Memorial and presents a chronological and thematic course consisting of twelve sequences that retrace the history of the Jews of France during the Shoah.
The history of the Jews in France during the Second World War
Photographs, texts, original documents, facsimiles, objects, films, sounds... address the history of the Shoah. Entering the exhibition, the visitor can follow on his left the route concerning France, in which individual destinies are included, while on his right is exposed the history at European scale. A concept that allows for permanent comings and goings between history and testimony, between collective history and individual history.
© JC Boussiquet
Several levels of reading and deepening are offered: the first on panels, the second in showcases and the last in albums and interactive terminals placed on desks. Six short films punctuate the course. Throughout the exhibition, individual destinies are evoked in small horizontal display cases, each containing the photograph and biography of a deported person, objects and documents belonging to him.
By describing the mechanisms that led to the extermination of nearly six million Jews, the exhibition aims to give everyone the tools to reflect on history and ask questions about the present, to remain vigilant against a possible return to intolerance of any kind.
© Florence Brochoire
The exhibition is organized in 12 sequences
Sequence 1 : Introduction to the history of the Jews of France
Sequence 2 : The rise of nazism
Sequence 3 : In France, from the exclusion of Jews to the first camps/ From ghettoization to massacre
Sequence 4 : Planned mass murder in Europe 1942: the deportation of Jews from France
Sequence 5 : The extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Sequence 6 : The plundering of the Jews in France
Sequence 7 : Civil society facing the persecution of Jews
Sequence 8 : Survive
Sequence 9 : Resist
Sequence 10 : Persecuted until the end of the war
Sequence 11 : The Liberation
Sequence 12 : The construction of the memory of the Holocaust
Closing the permanent exhibition, the Children’s Memorial includes to date 4,920 photographs of deported Jewish children. These photographs, arranged in alphabetical order and collected by Serge Klarsfeld and the Shoah Memorial, are taken from the book Mémorial des enfants juifs déportés de France (ed. Les Fils et Filles des déportés de France).
TO READ
The Jews of France in the Shoah, of Jacques Fredj, Holocaust Memorial, 2011.
Catalogue of the permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial.
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