Exhibition The voice of witnesses exhibition

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

With this exhibition event, the Shoah Memorial proposes to return to the construction of the public figure of the witness, by 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 reveals 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, intellectuals, actors or analysts. It also addresses the creative way in which the third generation after the survivors continues this transmission with determination. 

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

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