For this start of the 2024 school year, I invite you to visit the exhibitions at the Shoah Memorial: Riss: the Papon trial and Music in the Nazi camps, as well as the new exhibitions Rwanda 1994: the genocide of the Tutsi (as part of the 30th commemoration) and Foreigners in the Resistance in France (around the pantheonization of Missak Manouchian).
We are proud to also be able to offer you several preview screenings including The Area of Interest, Grand Prix of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Other previews in the framework of the exhibition Les Étrangers dans la Résistance en France: the films by Elisabeth Van Zijll Langhout and Hugues Nancy on the place of foreigners facing nazism in France; an unreleased episode from France’s series Culture LSD, the documentary series; or even The Resistant and the child of Jean Barat who intertwines the testimony of a survivor of the Shoah and that of her son. Love It Was Not will also be shown, Best Documentary Award at the Docaviv Festival in Tel Aviv.
The Memorial, as always, welcomes the words more than ever essential of several Shoah survivors to convey the history and memory of the Shoah. He also continues his work of education and awareness against all forms of hatred by taking part in the Week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism.
The cycle History in the present begins with two meetings which offer two perspectives of the year 1944, one with historians who propose an overview of this twilight year, and the other which focuses on the correspondence of Hélène Berr and Odile Neuburger.
The Grands Rendez-vous of the auditorium explore current literary and documentary events (with several pre-premieres not to be missed), as well as the history of Luxembourg in the Shoah and in the Second World War. As usual, small and large, individuals and groups, families and schools will be able to take part in many trips, workshops, routes and visits.
To be noted at the Memorial of the Shoah in 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
attend the next cultural activities
