For the start of 2024, I invite you to visit at the Shoah Memorial the exhibitions Riss: the Papon trial and Music in Nazi Camps, as well as the new exhibitions Rwanda 1994: the genocide of the Tutsi (as part of the 30th commemoration) and Des Étrangers dans la Résistance en France (about the panthéonisation of Missak Manouchian).
We are also proud to be able to offer you several premieres including The Area of Interest, Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Other premieres as part of the exhibition Les Étrangers dans la Résistance en France: films by Elisabeth Van Zijll Langhout and Hugues Nancy on the place of foreigners in the face of Nazism in France; an unreleased episode from the France series Culture LSD, the documentary series; or The Resistant and the child of Jean Barat, which intertwines the testimony of a Shoah survivor and that of her son. Will also be screened Love It Was Not, Best Documentary Award at the Docaviv Festival in Tel Aviv.
As always, the Memorial welcomes the words of several survivors of the Shoah, more essential than ever, to transmit the history and memory of the Shoah. It also continues its work of education and awareness against all forms of hatred by taking part in the Week of education and actions against racism and anti-Semitism.
The cycle l'Histoire au présent begins with two meetings that offer two perspectives of the year 1944, one with historians who propose an overview of this twilight year, and the other which looks at the correspondence of Hélène Berr and Odile Neuburger.
Les Grands Rendez-vous de l'auditorium explores current literary and documentary events (with several must-see premieres), as well as the history of Luxembourg in the Shoah and in the Second World War. As usual, young and old, individuals and groups, families and schools will be able to take part in many trips, workshops, tours and visits.
To note at the Shoah Memorial of Drancy, the exhibition Ginette Kolinka: itinerary of a survivor of Auschwitz continues while the exhibition Paris 1924-2024: the Olympic Games, mirror of societies?
We hope to see you at one of these meetings, either at the Memorial or online, to take advantage of this cultural offer that makes the Memorial a place of reflection and education indispensable, today more than ever.
Jacques Fredj, director
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