Memorial Book Fair
program of June 8

SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 8 (5 PM → 10 PM)

5PM → SPIROU IN A PREVIEW OF THE SHOAH AND COMICS EXHIBITION 

Starting at 5 p.m., boards from the comic strip "Le Spirou de Yann et Schwartz" Le Groom vert-de-gris and, as a preview, original drawings from the upcoming album "Le Spirou d'Émile Bravo" will be unveiled to the public in the temporary exhibition Shoah et bande dessinée. These plates and drawings will remain visible in the exhibition until the end, on 30 October 2017.

A presentation of these new plates will be made during the guided tour of the exhibition Shoah and comics at 7:30 pm.

Location: 1st floor. Free admission.

5:30 PM → DEDICATION BY ANNE SINCLAIR

Anne Sinclair will open this 2nd edition of the Memorial Book Fair with a signing session of her two books 21 rue de la Boétie (Grasset, 2012) and Chronique d'une France blessée (Grasset, 2017) at the Memorial de la Shoah bookstore.

Location: Bookstore – Free admission

18:30 → FOR E: W OR THE CHILDHOOD MEMORY

Reading

On the occasion of the publication of the work of Georges Perec in the collection La Pléiade, ed. Gallimard, volume edited by Christelle Reggiani, and an album with iconography commented by Claude Burgelin.

Fourteen years after the show I remember, Sami Frey proposes a reading of W or the memory of childhood by Georges Perec. These autobiographical texts carry within them, with modesty and accuracy, the bursting of memories, the drama of a shattered childhood. A huge comedian offers his voice to a great book dedicated to the disappeared.

Location: auditorium

PRICES: €12/€6

19h30 → FROM SHANGHAI TO LOS ANGELES: FILMING THE WITNESSES' WORDS

Meeting

In 1979 in New Haven began the first major project to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors. To date, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has collected 4400 of them, documented them, digitized them and made them available to the public. Hitherto available in the Yale library, they are now available at the multimedia teaching centre of the Shoah Memorial. We invite you to discover these unique documents, both personal stories and testimonies of a tragic collective destiny.

In the presence of Annette Wieviorka, historian, one of the interviewers of the French appendix "Témoignages pour Mémoire".

Location: Multimedia Education Center – Free admission

20h → THE LIFE OF MY NEIGHBOR

Reading

On the occasion of the publication of the book The life of my neighbor from Geneviève Brisac (Grasset, 2017).

Eugénie, known as Jenny or Nini, was born in 1925 in Paris. Her parents, Rivka and Nissim, came from Poland to the country of the Enlightenment. They were sent back there to die in 1942. Jenny was able to escape the the Vel d'Hiv roundup. Geneviève Brisac has just moved. She meets her neighbor, Jenny, in front of the elevator of staircase D. It is the beginning both of a friendship and of this "true novel" in the form of a journey through the century, which is also a conversation between two women who love books, children, theater, utopia, and a portrait-testimony in two voices by Jenny Plocki.

Reading by the author.

Location: Crypt – Free admission

Dedication by Geneviève Brisac to the bookstore at the end of the reading.

At 8:30 PM → UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS

Meeting

Around the publication of Leïb Rochman’s Journal 1943-1944 and Moshé Flinker’s Carnets de clandestinité, Bruxelles 1942-1943, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Mémorial de la Shoah, 2017; Journal du camp de Vittel by Yitzhak Katzenelson, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Mémorial de la Shoah, 2016; Le Déluge de Leïb Rochman, ed. Buchet-Chastel, 2017.

In 1943, Yitzhak Katzenelson kept his diary at the camp of Vittel in France; Leïb Rochman wrote his diary while hidden behind a double partition in the farm of a Polish peasant, then in a pit dug in a barn – two documents of rare intensity written in Yiddish. Moshé Flinker was 16 years old in 1942 when he started to write his diary in Brussels in Hebrew. Three years later, he died in Bergen-Belsen.

In the presence of Guy-Alain Sitbon; Isabelle Rozenbaumas, Rachel Ertel, translators. Moderated by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, translator and essayist.

Location: Auditorium

FREE ENTRY UPON RESERVATION

21H → BLACK MILK

Music playback

On the occasion of the publication of the book Black milk from Fanny Michaëlis (ed. Cornelius, 2016).

Between a tale of memory and a fantastic tale, Black milk, inspired by the story of the author’s grandfather, explores the exodus of a young man thrown onto the roads of a continent at war. Reading, live music and drawing allow a singular entry into the work that is offered here to the viewer. Reading comics aloud also means describing the images that make them your own language, trying to unfold in the imagination the contours of an unusual landscape.

Musical reading by Fanny Michaëlis, Ludovic Debeurme and Patrick Michaëlis / Artistic advisor: Claude-Alice Peyrottes.  Hosted by Christian Rosset, creator and radio producer, composer and essayist.

Location: Parvis – Free admission

Dedication by Fanny Michaëlis on the forecourt at the end of the musical reading.

17H → 22H Book sale: the library’s occasions

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€.

Thursday, June 8, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. : reading course (Joseph Roth, Alfred Döblin, Soma Morgenstern, ...).
Batches of newspapers and periodicals will be offered.

"Do not let your books sleep in your cupboards": a form will be made available to people who wish to donate books.

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

PROGRAM OF JUNE 9

PROGRAM OF JUNE 11

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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