Éric de Rothschild © DR.
Dear friends,
We are pleased to present in this moral report the main activities and highlights of our institution in 2024.
It has relentlessly pursued its mission: to transmit, testify, and educate by restoring meaning to words and arming our visitors with historical knowledge.
Over the past few months, we have welcomed more than 516,000 visitors, including 161,077 students, a figure that continues to grow every year, as does the number of trained professionals, who reached 10,084 in 2024.
If current events were marked by the Olympic Games, they nevertheless had an impact on the Memorial with their exhibition Paris 1924-Paris 2024: the Olympic Games, a mirror of societies, and especially the passage of the flame in front of the Shoah Memorial on July 14, 2024, with Léon Placek as a torchbearer and the young athlete Kajali Susso from the association Espoir 18. Moving moment when, in front of a hedge of young ambassadors of memory, the values of olympism were combined with the imperative of transmission.
It was also this year that the Shoah Memorial unveiled its new digital monument. Located near the crypt and the Jewish file, this new monument, inaugurated on April 28, 2024, presents the names of 4,000 Jews shot as hostages or as resistance fighters, executed, victims of exactions, died in internment camps in France, disappeared or committed suicide at the time of their arrest or deportation, deported and killed in concentration camps, or killed in the fighting for the liberation of France. A complementary monument of the Wall of Names and long awaited by many families.
In 2024, we made a point of commemorating the
We have also continued a fundamental work of collecting and safeguarding the archives. Fragile and precious witnesses, documents, photographs, the objects we preserve are as many voices that cross time. Thanks to them, the victims of the Shoah are not reduced to statistics or abstractions: they remain faces, stories, lives brutally interrupted.
I would like to pay tribute here to the unwavering commitment of the Memorial’s teams, volunteers, and institutional and associative partners, who work every day to bring this memory and this history to life.
Their dedication, rigor and creativity are the strength of our action.
I also thank the many donors and supporters, both private and public, without whom nothing would be possible.
In 2024, the creation of a
That this annual report reflects the richness and intensity of the work accomplished, and that it reminds us collectively that the history of the Shoah is not a page turned to the past, but a commitment to the present.
Éric de Rothschild
President of the Shoah Memorial
