Moral report of the institution
EDITORIAL
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, educate by restoring meaning to words and arming our visitors with historical knowledge.
Over the months, we have welcomed more than 516,000 visitors, including 161,077 students, a figure that continues to grow each year, as does the number of trained professionals, with 10,084 in 2024.
If the news was marked by the Olympic Games, it nevertheless impacted the Memorial with its exhibition Paris 1924-Paris 2024: the Olympic Games, 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 where, in front of a crowd of young ambassadors of memory, the values of Olympism were combined with the imperative of transmission.
It is 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 abuses, died in internment camps in France, disappeared or committed suicide at the time of their arrest or deportation, deported and dead in concentration camps, or killed in the fighting for the liberation of France. A complementary monument to the Wall of Names and long-awaited by many families.
In 2024, we wanted to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide by organizing a whole series of fascinating and moving conferences and meetings.
We have also continued a fundamental work of collecting and safeguarding the archives. Fragile and precious witnesses, the documents, the photographs, the objects that we preserve are as many voices that cross time. Thanks to them, the victims of the Holocaust are not reduced to statistics or abstractions: they remain faces, stories, lives brutally interrupted.
I want to acknowledge here the unwavering commitment of the Memorial teams, volunteers, institutional and associative partners who work every day to keep this memory and history alive.
Their dedication, their rigor, their 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 7th museum is now confirmed, as evidenced by the signing of a lease with Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, for the establishment of the future Memorial Museum in this city. This place will house a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jews in Nice and in the Maritime Alps during the Second World War, as well as educational rooms dedicated to teachers and schoolchildren.
May this annual report bear witness to the richness and intensity of the work accomplished, and may it collectively remind us that the history of the Shoah is not a page turned towards the past, but a commitment to the present.
Éric de Rothschild
President of the Shoah Memorial
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