Services of the Holocaust Memorial
Educational activities
The educational service is one of the mediation tools of the Memorial. In relation to schools, the team of the pedagogical service carries out various awareness and education actions. It organizes guided tours, hosts classes at the Memorial and offers workshops to young people all year round.
Contact: reservation.groupes@memorialdelashoah.org
The documentation centre
The documentation centre offers a unique set of textual, iconographic and audiovisual resources to the public and researchers. It includes the photo library (more than 280,000 photographs), the library (some 50,000 references), the archives (over 30 million pieces) and the multimedia education centre. Two members of the archives department are dedicated to welcoming families in the Salle des Noms.
Contacts:
documentation@memorialdelashoah.org
archives@memorialdelashoah.org
phototheque@memorialdelashoah.org
bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org
Finding people / Documenting a claim: noms@memorialdelashoah.org
Training
In connection with the educational service and the service for the development of places of remembrance, the training service offers throughout the year activities designed for professionals, education, police and justice, as well as students. Two summer universities, in Paris and Poland, and a winter university in Israel complete the Memorial’s training offer.
Contact: formations@memorialdelashoah.org
Cultural activities
The cultural activities department is in charge of programming and organizing events in the auditorium, as well as temporary exhibitions at the Memorial but also outside the walls, in France and abroad. The cultural activities department also includes the multimedia education centre and the bookshop.
Contacts:
programmation@memorialdelashoah.org
librairie@memorialdelashoah.org
international relations
The Shoah Memorial, at international level, aims to impact the policies of the European states with high stakes as the Western Balkans, the Baltic countries, Ukraine, and to include the Shoah in a reflection open to genocide by focusing on regional issues. It develops structured partnerships with local ministries of education, the French diplomatic and cultural network, associations of history teachers or NGOs involved in memorial issues. Training seminars, research workshops, conferences or exhibitions are in most cases offered abroad with the support of international donors. Finally, the extension of the geographical field to Africa has led the Memorial, at the request of UNESCO, to organize training courses to accompany the Cameroonian authorities, Central African and Congolese women in their desire to introduce the teaching of the Shoah and genocide as an education for peace.
Learn more
Contact: internationalrelations@memorialdelashoah.org
Planning and visits to places of remembrance in France and abroad
The Planning and visits department of memory sites offers support and expertise in the development of memory sites. It is particularly invested in projects to safeguard and develop former internment camps, such as the Milles camp or the Loiret internment camps. This department is also in charge of organizing trips to places of remembrance, especially the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
Contacts:
lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
inscription@memorialdelashoah.org
SPEAKING GROUP
The Shoah Memorial hosts one Sunday a month, a meeting of a speaking group of former children hidden during the Shoah. This speaking group is led by the psychologists of the Centre Georges-Devereux, with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
Next appointments: Sundays 13 October 2024, 17 November 2024, 8 December 2024 from 14:30 to 17:00 (Free, without reservation)
Information:
Centre Georges-Devereux
Tel.: 01 77 32 10 64 or e-mail: accueil@devereux.fr
Review of the history of the Shoah/ Publications
Founded in 1946 under the name Le Monde juif, the world’s first journal specializing in the Shoah became the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah in 1997. This bi-annual publication is a scientific tool, but also a place for exchange and reflection between researchers and witnesses from all over the world. The journal’s team also publishes, in co-edition with Calmann-Lévy, the books of the Memorial de la Shoah collection.
Contact: rhs@memorialdelashoah.org
Communication
The aim of the communication service is to give the Shoah Memorial the best visibility among the general public in France, where the cultural offer is particularly dense, but also internationally.
In addition, the communication service establishes media and institutional partnerships. He is also in charge of the production and distribution of all internal and external communication tools for the Memorial.
Contacts: communication@memorialdelashoah.org
