From April 7 to mid-July 1994 in the hills of Rwanda, more than a million Tutsi men, women and children perished in the name of a political utopia aimed at restoring the racial purity of a Hutu nation rid of a minority portrayed as sneaky and harmful. Imagining themselves threatened in their very existence, the Hutu extremists started from 7 April 1994 a campaign of massacres of extreme effectiveness.
On the occasion of the 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi, the exhibition tries to make intelligible an event still too often submitted to reductive readings. Product of the long history of our tragic twentieth century, it responded to specific political logics, themselves backed by a racist ideology inscribed in the colonial and post-colonial past of Rwanda.
Committed for many years to transmitting the history and memory of the genocide of the Tutsi, the Shoah Memorial intends to affirm its support to victims and survivors in this time of commemoration.
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Scientific curatorship: Stéphane Audoin–Rouzeau, historian, director of studies at the EHESS, Hélène Dumas, historian, EHESS, and MarcelKabanda, historian, president of Ibuka-France.
Coordination and research: Sophie Nagiscarde, Head of Cultural Activities.
Adaptation of the exhibition in 2024
Scientific commission: Hélène Dumas, researcher at the CNRS, (CESPRA-EHESS).
Coordination of the exhibition: Lucile Lignon, head of temporary exhibitions, Shoah Memorial, assisted by François Breloy.
Graphic design: Designers Unit.
Free
Visible Allée des Justes at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
