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novelty! CABU, DRAWINGS OF THE RAID OF VEL D'HIV

In the spring of 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the good sheets of La Grande rafle du Vel d'Hiv', July 16, 1942 by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this series in five episodes, the editorial team calls upon a young 29-year-old illustrator, Jean Cabut, dit Cabu. Lévy and Tillard’s book traces, through documents and testimonies, the progress of the roundup and the confinement to the Vélodrome d'Hiver of more than 8,000 of the approximately 13,000 victims of arrests. Pointing out the role of the French police and the Vichy government in the deportation of the Jews from France by the Nazis, the book provokes a shock in public opinion. It is also a shock for Cabu, who discovers this tragedy too quickly forgotten and puts the best of his talent to translate into drawings the scenes described. From the sixteen precious drawings of Cabu presented by historian Laurent Joly, research director at the CNRS, Véronique Cabut, Cabu’s wife, and the Shoah Memorial propose to trace the key moments of the Vel d'Hiv roundup. This exhibition is also a tribute to an ingenious and popular cartoonist who was one of the twelve victims of the jihadist attack on 7 January 2015 against the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo.

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ReFONTE of the exhibition "From the discovery of camps to the return of deportees"

Created on the occasion of the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the year 1945, this exhibition addresses the discovery of the camps by the Allied armies (American, British, French and Soviet), the repatriation of deportees and the attempts at reconstruction, as well as the gradual awareness of the reality of the Nazi concentration camp universe. The exhibition highlights the testimonies of survivors and a rich iconography.

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ReFONTE of the exhibition 'The Righteous of France'

During the Second World War, in Europe, a certain number of non-Jewish men and women helped Jews by providing them with relief, food, clothing, shelters, caches, fake papers, information about an upcoming raid, escort to a border, access to school or work... Individually or within networks, of all social conditions, of different opinions and confessions, in the big cities as in the most isolated rural areas, it is animated by the same refusal of barbarism, by the sense of solidarity and humanity that they have acted.

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