In this second quarter of 2024, the Shoah Memorial is launching a new exhibition: Paris 1924-Paris 2024: The Olympic Games, mirror of societies – on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The exhibitions Foreigners in the Resistance in France – on the pantheonization of Missak Manouchian – and Rwanda 1994 – as part of the 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi – are continuing, notably with a series including six documentaries aheadfirst in connection with this commemoration.
Through our cycle History in the Present dedicated to the year 1944, we offer you, among other things, a tribute to Jean Zay and, also as a premiere, the documentary Sabine Zlatin ou l'impossible oubli by Daniel Cling, as part of the 80th commemoration of the roundup of Izieu’s children.
Among the major events of the Auditorium, you can attend two international events: the symposium Quantifying the Holocaust which brings together researchers in history, demography, geography, sociology and applied mathematics, and a study day that questions the practices of collection, conservation, and enhancement of Shoah objects in the 21st century.
As part of a new partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville, we present three lectures based on the works of Dominique Celis, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and Agnès Desarthe.
We commemorate, through official ceremonies and special meetings, the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the Vel d'Hiv roundup, and we mark the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims and Heroes of the Deportation, the National Day of Resistance, and Yom HaShoah, reading ceremony of the names of the victims of the Shoah and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance.
The Memorial welcomes artists as part of national events: the Nuit blanche, the European Night of Museums – a musical reading with Patrick Timsit – and the Fête de la musique – the Dan Gharibian Trio and Josef, Josef.
At the end of August, Ciné Parvis shows three films related to the Olympic Games exhibition.
At the Shoah Memorial in Drancy, the exhibition Paris 1924-Paris 2024: les Jeux Olympiques, miroir des sociétés continues. Les Rendez-vous de Drancy is a literary event, hosting screenings of fiction and documentaries, and showcasing the precious testimonies of a Shoah survivor and a hidden child.
We look forward to seeing you at one of these events, either at the Memorial or online, to take advantage of this cultural offer that makes the Memorial a place for reflection and education, now more than ever.
Jacques Fredj, director
