Discover the exhibition "It’s tomorrow that we leave. Letters from internees, from the Vel d'Hiv to Auschwitz", Allée des Justes in Paris exhibition

On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, the Shoah Memorial expanded the open-air exhibition located in the alley of the Righteous by presenting a selection of letters from the exhibition It’s tomorrow that we leave. Letters from internees, from the Vel d'Hiv to Auschwitz. 

About the exhibition: From the end of 1940, tens of thousands of Jews found themselves locked up in the internment camps of the free zone then in those of the occupied zone. Their only link with the outside is then the correspondence that they can sometimes send to their relatives.

With the triggering of the «Final Solution» in 1942 and the deportations, this tenuous thread maintained with the outside turns into a farewell before the deportation. These letters are often the last traces left by the victims on the eve of their departure, or even sometimes written from the wagons taking them "to the East".

The exhibition is visible in its entirety at the Shoah Memorial of Drancy and at CERCIL, Musée-Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv in Orléans.  

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