Exhibition The voices of witnesses exhibition

75 years after the end of the Shoah, the figure of the survivor, the witness, has become more than ever a popular and necessary landmark. The narratives of witnesses, spoken orally, written or recorded, during or after the event, now constitute an immense source of choral information on the Shoah, a repository of the memory of the Shoah that will survive them and whose study will still be the responsibility of future generations.

With this special exhibition, the Shoah Memorial proposes to return to the construction of the public figure of the witness, inviting in particular to discover, within dedicated sound spaces, the invaluable voices and words of Primo Levi, Simone Veil, Élie Wiesel, Imre Kertész, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Samuel Pisar and Aharon Appelfeld. The exhibition unveils the history of testimony and its presence in public space through a frieze composed of biographies, original manuscripts, sound and film archives, illuminated by comments from its main historians, intellectual actors or analysts. It also addresses the creative way in which the third generation after the survivors pursue this transmission with determination. 

This major exhibition is complemented by a special exhibition, The Jewish Deportees of France Survivors of the Shoah, on the occasion of the inauguration of the renovated Wall of Names.

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