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Publié le 31 May 2023
The exhibition presents original and contemporary prints partially preserved in the collections of the Shoah Memorial and several international institutions. She proposes to rediscover a committed artist for whom the camera is a weapon at the service of a social and political sensitivity.
Workshops, conferences, exhibitions, screenings, meetings, guided tours: discover the new programme of cultural activities of the Shoah Memorial
Back to the official visit of the Prince and Princess of Denmark to the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
Back to image on the visit in French sign language
Workshops, conferences, exhibitions, screenings, meetings, guided tours: discover the new programme of cultural activities of the Shoah Memorial
Sunday, July 17, 2022, take part in the inauguration of the new memorial of the Shoah Memorial: Pithiviers Station
From 17 June 2022, discover the new exhibition «By the grace of God», the Churches and the Shoah of the Shoah Memorial
Free entrance, 1st floor
The Shoah Memorial salutes the memory of a great witness to the Shoah, a generous and modest man with luminous humanism, and offers his condolences to his wife Etty and his family.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Visit by Mr. Clément BEAUNE, Secretary of State for European Affairs
As part of the cycle of meetings «against the falsification of history»
Free, upon registration
From 27 April 2022 at 19:00 to 28 April 2022 at 19:00 will be read on the square of the Shoah Memorial 31 convoys: from convoy 38 to convoy 73.
The reading of the convoys will be in face-to-face and in distance.
From April to August 2022
film previews, workshops, international conferences, conferences, screenings, meetings, visits .. take part in the new activities of the Shoah Memorial
Tuesday, March 15th 2022
Exceptionnel meeting
Live interview from Kiev with Anatoli Podolski, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Shoah Studies
Back to images of the visit of Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs at the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
On the occasion of the exhibition «Diplomats facing the Shoah».
The Shoah Memorial pays tribute to a great activist of memory and sends condolences to her children and loved ones.
Discover the new exhibition of the Shoah Memorial, «Diplomats facing the Shoah»
February 8 to May 8, 2022
The exhibition “Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe” is extended until 22 May 2022.
Images of the International Day for the Memory of Genocide and the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity at the Paris and Drancy Holocaust Memorial
Through this video, discover the exhibition Homosexual and lesbians in Nazi Europe presented by Florence Tamagne.
Following new measures by the French government to stem the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19, the Shoah Memorial will be closed from Sunday 15 March, until further notice.
Le 2 octobre, le Mémorial de la Shoah a ouvert ses portes aux enseignants sont venus nombreux découvrir l’offre pédagogique 2019/2020 et échanger avec les intervenants de l’équipe pédagogique du musée.
As part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure * (EHRI) program, the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris is organizing a study day devoted to “Escape and rescue routes: France Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy: Exile, passages, borders … 1938-1944”.
Between the end of July and the beginning of August 2017, the Shoah Memorial organized in collaboration with the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Vilnius a methodological seminar on new sources and perspectives of investigation under the title “The Nazi occupation and the extermination of the European Jews.
→ 30 July – 4 August, 2017, University of Trieste, Italy (Department of Humanities)
Pictures of the opening reception of the exhibition at the Mobile Museum, Alabama (USA)
From April 19 to 21, the Jewish Community of Banja Luka held a training seminar for 30 Bosnian teachers about the history of the Holocaust and mass killings in the Balkans during World War II.
Martin Gray, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Treblinka extermination camp who fought with the Soviet Army, was best known for his best-seller For Those I Loved (1971), written with Max Gallo. He died on the night between Sunday and Monday, two days before his 94th birthday. The Shoah Memorial pays him tribute.
A network of Holocaust Places of Remembrance in France bringing together 11 institutions was officially launched on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at the Ministry of National Education and the Shoah Memorial. The goal: to strengthen cooperation between members and train young “ambassadors of memory”.
In Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, the Shoah Memorial led a two-day seminar for ministerial officials on integrating lessons about genocide and mass killings into school curricula.
International Workshop within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) invites you to participate in an international workshop on Holocaust archival film footage to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem on September 19-21, 2016.
February 15, 2016, Ferrara (Italy) – The Institute for Contemporary History in Ferrara, the Shoah Memorial and the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Holocaust MEIS in Ferrara held an international Conference of Historical and Historiographical Studies on “Jewish resistance in Europe”
On Friday, February 19, 2016, the Shoah Memorial and the Lyon Appeals Court signed an agreement to set up a citizenship course led by the Memorial’s teams for people convicted of committing racist or anti-Semitic crimes.
The “Sport in Europe during the War (1936-1948)” exhibition presented by the Shoah Memorial opened in Genoa, Italy on 31 January. Many visitors came to the event and student groups now visit the exhibition. Nearly 200 people attended Paul Dietschy’s lectures on February 1 (see videos and photos below): “Sport in Nazi Germany: the Example of Football in Propaganda and Racism” and “The Challenge of the Stadium: Fascist Sport in Europe in the Thirties”.
On January 28, 2016, the exhibition “After the Holocaust. Survivors and Refugees, 1944-1947″ opened at the Shoah Memorial in the presence of European Parliament President Martin Schulz, historian and exhibition curator Henry Rousso, Shoah Memorial President Eric de Rothschild and Shoah Memorial Director Jacques Fredj.
On January 31, David Saltiel, President of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, and Jacques Fredj, Director of the Shoah Memorial, signed an agreement to create a Holocaust museum and educational center in Thessaloniki. The Shoah Memorial will provide expertise and assistance as part of the accord, which was signed in the presence of the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, the Consul General of France and the Director of the French Institute of Thessaloniki, Christophe Le Rigoleur. The signing took place on the sidelines of a ceremony to honor the Holocaust’s victims in Thessaloniki.
The Shoah Memorial is trying to establish a list of Jews who were deported from France and returned.
On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Assembly President Simonetta Saliera opened the exhibition “Genocides of the 20th Century” (I genocidi del XX secolo), presented by the Shoah Memorial, in Bologna. Present, among others, were Daniele De Paz, president of the Jewish Community of Bologna, Mgr. Giovanni Silvagni, Vicar of the Curia of Bologna, and Yassim Lafram, president of the Islamic Community of Bologna.