Through a journey in the Marais, families discover the Jewish presence in the historic heart of Paris. Synagogues, commemorative plaques, traditional shops from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, participants follow the upheavals and changes in the Pletzl, the Jewish quarter of Paris. At the turn of a street or a garden, musical readings will accompany this discovery.From 9 years old.
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Around the works
"Knowing, from a very young age, that one is struck by some mysterious prohibition to exist forces a daily questioning that does not take long to become certain" (A destiny, 2016). The life and work of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt create bridges between Germany and France, history and language, literature and testimony. For Marcel Cohen, it is important to "do with almost nothing".
In the presence of
Place: forecourt – Free admission
Dedications by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Marcel Cohen at the bookstore at the end of the meeting.
© JC Lattès Editions
Reading
On the occasion of the publication of the book
1889. Jakob Ackermann and about twenty German soldiers land in South-West Africa. Their mission is to create a settlement colony. They imagine themselves as builders, the banner of modernity. 2004. On the sidelines of a day commemorating the massacre of the Hereros, a young Namibian half-breed questions his past. One thinks he is writing history, the other questions it. Their voices respond to each other. They tell the destiny of these men and this land coveted, conquered, ravaged, where the twentieth century may have been born.
Read by the author,
Location: crypt – Free entry
Dedication by Niels Labuzan to the elevator space at the end of the reading.
With kind permission of Jacques Pin... © All rights reserved.
Reading
On the occasion of the publication of
Since he was interned at the Pithiviers camp in May 1941, Zysman has been writing love letters to his wife Khayè almost every day. Some letters in French are censored, the others, written in Yiddish, go under the coat. These tight lines also tell of intimacy, fears, revolt and the harsh daily life in the camp. Overflowing with life and love, this exceptional correspondence draws the portrait of a couple mistreated by history.
Reading on a background of images by
Location: Auditorium
Dedication by Jacques Davies at the end of the reading.
© Circe
Music playback
On the occasion of the publication of the book
Poets wrote in the Warsaw ghetto. Until the last moment. The texts of Wladyslaw Szlengel (1914-1943), "passed from hand to hand and from mouths to ears". In late 1942-early 1943, in an effervescence, Szlengel gathered the poems and gave them to the clandestine archives of Emmanuel Ringelblum. He leaves us, he explains, "document poems" that he read to "people who still believed in their survival."
By the company "Retour d'Ulysse" / Setting in space:
Location: crypt – Free entry
Dedications by Jean-Yves Potel and Monika Prochniewicz to the elevator space at the end of the musical reading.
ed. Les Escales
ed. of the Antelope
Anne-Sophie Moszkowicz,
Anne-Sophie Dreyfus
Location: bookstore – Free admission
© Editions Le Lombard
Vincent Dugomier
Place: elevator space – Free entry
© Anacharsis
Meeting
Prolific under the Third Reich, the German detective novel – Krimi – is increasingly the target of censorship, the regime seeking to impose the "good German detective novel". The detective novel then becomes an ideological battlefield invested by Jewish writers or resistance fighters. Today, the greatest authors of the genre choose to place their characters in this same historical context. Is it about challenging history or revisiting it through new approaches?
In the presence of
Location: Auditorium
Dedications by Vincent Platini, Harald Gilbers and Romain Slocombe at the bookstore at the end of the meeting.
© Daniela and Karina Lévy
Meeting
On the occasion of the publication of the collective work
Thirty survivors from France, the youngest of whom is 75 years old, came together and nine of them testify in this book. Most of the witnesses arrived after 1945 and their "intertwined" stories relate mainly their journey in occupied France. This lively, pedagogical and accomplished collective work is to be read in one go and deserves to be reread as it teaches new knowledge on the relations between European Jews and the country of the Caudillos and Juntes.
In the presence of
Place: forecourt – Free admission
© Fauve Editions
© Editions 7écrit
Sylvia Gold,
Charles Chandler
Location: bookstore – Free admission
© Albiana Editions
Meeting
On the occasion of the publication of the book
Frania Mond, at the center of
In the presence of the author,
Location: crypt – Free entry
Dedication by Jean-Marc Olivesi to the elevator space at the end of the meeting.
© Editions Le Manuscrit
© Editions Le Manuscrit
Evelyne German
Philippe Bernard
Location: bookstore space
© Steinkis Editions
Kkrist Mirror
Location: elevator space
© Editions Rue du Monde
Meeting
After the trilogy "Les trois secrets d'Alexandra" (Rue du monde, 2004), Didier Daeninckx’s pen finds Pef’s brush to deliver us a new album "Papa, pourquoi t'as voté Hitler" (Rue du monde, 2016). Here they discuss the rise of Nazism in a Germany weakened by unemployment and populism. But how do we tell such stories through images? How do these children’s albums become bridges between generations? In Des longues nuits d'été, by Aharon Appelfeld, Valérie Zenatti unveils the secrets of the translation of this travel story that recounts the friendship between Janek, a young Jewish boy, and Papi Sergei, an old blind man, during the war. Scribbles and required chatter!
In the presence of
Place: forecourt – Free admission
© Edilivre Editions
ed. The Waterfront
Michel Stermann
Hazar Carr
Location: elevator space
© Calmann-Levy Editions
Reading
On the occasion of the publication of the book
Since he was interned at the Pithiviers camp in May 1941, Zysman has been writing love letters to his wife Khayè almost every day. Some letters in French are censored, the others, written in Yiddish, go under the coat. These tight lines also tell of intimacy, fears, revolt and the harsh daily life in the camp. Overflowing with life and love, this exceptional correspondence draws the portrait of a couple mistreated by history and the madness of men to finally give us a magnificent lesson of hope and courage.
Read by
Location: crypt – Free entry
Dedication by Jacques Davies at the end of the reading.
Didier Zuili
Place: elevator space – Free entry
Concert at the dormitory, Terezin 1942. © Helga Weissova
Concert
Helga Weissova is 11 years old when she arrives with her parents in Terezin (1941). In her
Music program:
In the presence of
Location: Auditorium
© Sabine Wespieser
Meeting
On the occasion of the publication of
Born into a Polish-Jewish family, Ruben Schwarzberg studied medicine in Berlin in the 1930s. Saved a first time by the ambassador of Haiti in 1938, he then arrived in Port-au-Prince, after many adventures, thanks to a decree law of naturalization that authorizes consulates to issue safe conducts to Jews. There he became a renowned doctor, and the patriarch of three generations of Haitians. It wasn’t until 2010, when Haiti was hit by an earthquake and the granddaughter of her late aunt Ruth ran up to rescue workers from all over the world that, for a whole night, she sat under the veranda of her house in the heights of the capital, the old man tells her his family history.
In the presence of the author,
Place: forecourt – Free admission
Dedication by Louis-Philippe Dalembert at the end of the meeting.
Mafia microphone in Cuba (2017) @ Joram Bejarano
Closing concert
Esther Bejarano, née Loewy, comes from a family of musicians. Arriving at Auschwitz on 20 April 1943, she was admitted to the girls' orchestra where she played the accordion, without ever having touched that instrument before. At the end of 1943, she was transferred to
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Location: Auditorium of the Cité internationale des arts
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The library of the Shoah Memorial offers "les occasions de la bibliothèque", a book sale throughout the duration of the Exhibition, offering second-hand books and magazines. Readers, bibliophiles, give a second life to books! Books from 2€.
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Free admission – Korczak Room 2nd floor of the Shoah Memorial
The open-air bookstore will be held on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial – Free admission
The Memorial bookstore will be open to the public throughout the duration of the Book Fair. The Multimedia Teaching Centre will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and exceptionally until 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 8.
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