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 2025.
The year 2025 was marked by the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Faced with the inevitable disappearance of the last witnesses, our mission resonates with an unprecedented urgency. This activity report retraces a year of collective actions, reflecting our unwavering commitment to making the past useful in the present.
This year, our institution has reached new heights: over the months, the Shoah Memorial in Paris welcomed 346,000 visitors, recording a remarkable 17% increase in attendance. Throughout France, 554,000 people participated in our activities. This momentum has also been reflected online, with more than 1.2 million page views on our sites and an ever-growing community on our social networks.
Our cultural program has managed to federate a vast and intergenerational audience around essential topics: the major exhibitions dedicated to the unreleased recordings of Claude Lanzmann and the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire brought together 150,000 visitors.
The exhibition dedicated to the series available on the YouTube channel of the Shoah Memorial "Les Immortels", directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, bringing together encounters between survivors and young adults, deeply touched 91,696 visitors.
The ceremony of January 27, placed under the sign of youth and transmission, notably brought together school choirs on our forecourt in a moment of great emotion.
Education and the preservation of the memory of the Shoah remain our top priorities. Faced with the instrumentalization and distortion of history, education remains our best weapon. We supported 184,300 school children this year. Nearly 9,990 professionals have been trained, the vast majority of whom are primary and secondary school teachers.
Because memory is evidence-based, our collections have been enriched by 203,151 new archival documents, ensuring the preservation of these traces for researchers and future generations.
The year 2025 has unfortunately reminded us that our fight is a burning issue. During the night of 30 to 31 May, the walls of the Memorial were sprayed with green paint. This unacceptable act only strengthens our resolve to deconstruct hatred at its root and stay the course in the face of adversity.
To continue and expand our educational mission, we look to the future. On 17 September, we laid the foundation stone for the future museum of the Shoah Memorial in Nice. This progress symbolizes our desire to amplify our territorial influence in order to continue educating and transmitting.
I invite you to discover, throughout these pages, the richness of our action. Thank you to the institutions, our patrons, our donors and all of you who make our mission possible every day.
Éric de Rothschild
President of the Shoah Memorial
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