The forecourt

The spaces of the memorial museum

Located in the heart of the historic Marais district, the Memorial de la Shoah offers visitors a wide range of resources and activities on a total area of almost 5,000 m 2. Discover the different spaces that make up this place.

EXPLORE THE SPACES OF THE MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Inauguration of the renovated Wall of Names
The Edmond J. Safra Auditorium
The crypt and the Jewish file
The pediment

The Wall of the Righteous
The exhibition halls
The Hall of Names
Virtual tour

The Documentation Centre
The bookstore
The forecourt

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This place of assembly is bordered on one side by a wall with seven bas-reliefs, which represent the persecution of the Jews, made in 1982 by the sculptor Arbit Blatas, and on the other side by the Wall of names.
On the axis of the square, the bronze cylinder bears the names of the Warsaw Ghetto and camps such as: Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Sobibor, Struthof, Treblinka.

PRACTICAL: The Forecourt is visible during the opening hours of the Memorial.