In this second quarter of 2024, the Shoah Memorial launches a new exhibition: Paris 1924-Paris 2024: The Olympic Games, mirror of societies – on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. The exhibitions Foreigners in the Resistance in France – around the Pantheonization of Missak Manouchian – and Rwanda 1994 – as part of the 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi – continue with, notably, a cycle including six documentaries in advance-first 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 meeting to Jean Zay and, also in preview, the documentary Sabine Zlatin or the impossible forgetting of Daniel Cling, as part of the 80th commemoration of the roundup of the children of Izieu.
Among the major events in the Auditorium, you can attend two international events: the conference 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 valorization of Shoah objects in the 21st century.
As part of a new partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville, we present three readings 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, ceremony for reading the names of the victims of the Shoah and the heroes of the Jewish Resistance.
The Memorial hosts artists as part of national events: the White Night, the European Museum Night – a musical reading with Patrick Timsit – and the Music Festival – the Dan Gharibian Trio and Josef, Josef.
At the end of August, Ciné Parvis shows three films related to the exhibition Olympic Games.
At the Shoah Memorial in Drancy, the exhibition Paris 1924-Paris 2024: the Olympic Games, mirror of societies continues. Les Rendez-vous de Drancy apprehends literary news, hosts screenings of fiction and documentary works, and celebrates the precious testimonies of a Holocaust survivor and a hidden child.
Looking forward to seeing you at one of these meetings, either at the Memorial or online, to take advantage of this cultural offer that makes the Memorial an indispensable place for reflection and education, today more than ever.
Jacques Fredj, director
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