Discover the new cultural activities program

Saturday, 01 April 2023Thursday, 31 August 2023

This second quarter of 2023 is rich in activities and anniversaries.

We are inaugurating a new major exhibition that explores the ambivalent theme of Music in the Nazi Camps, an art that the Nazis distorted but also allowed the internees and deportees to survive and resist. The anniversary exhibition Year 1943: the Warsaw Ghetto and the creation of the CDJC and the special programming that follows mark the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Shoah Memorial in its original form as well as the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto – this event is also transcribed through the exhibition, which is partly unpublished Adel Abdessemed, My child. The Shoah Memorial also invites you to discover the exhibition Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah, and the life and work of Julia Pirotte, photographer and resistance fighter.

In addition, you will be able to take part in two major conference cycles organized in the spring. In the first, entitled Mass atrocities in the twenty-first century, historians, anthropologists and witnesses highlight the experience of ethnic groups that have experienced persecution over the past two decades. The second will be dedicated to the year 1943 with a focus on the Jews of Bulgaria and the deportation of Jews from Yugoslav and Greek territories.

Many commemorations are planned for the 80th anniversary of the 1943 roundups and deportations, as well as for the traditional ceremony of Yom HaShoah, for the Vel d'Hiv roundup, the National Day of Resistance as well as for the commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi.

Visits and memory trails, within, around and beyond the Memorial, retrace Jewish life in Paris from the late nineteenth century to the occupation – with some visits now dedicated to visually impaired or hearing impaired people.

Between May and August, the Memorial welcomes actors, authors, musicians, singers, visual artists and video artists in its spaces to celebrate the Nuit des musées, the Nuit blanche, the Fête de la musique as well as our biennial Salon du livre. For the end of the summer holidays, come and see our series of outdoor screenings Ciné Parvis, with in particular Simone, le voyage du siècle by Olivier Dahan.

Finally, at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy, you can still visit the exhibition School and Resistance and attend a theatrical reading and two meetings related to current literary events.

We hope to see you at one of these events, either at the Memorial or online and live on our website and social media.

Jacques Fredj, director

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