Memorial Book Fair
program of June 8

PROGRAM OF THURSDAY, JUNE 8 (17H 22h)

17H SPIROU IN PREVIEW AT THE SHOAH EXHIBITION AND COMIC BOOK 

From 5 PM, plates from the comic strip «Le Spirou de Yann et Schwartz» Le Groom vert-de-gris and, as a preview, original drawings of the next album to be released «Le Spirou d'Émile Bravo» will be unveiled to the public in the temporary exhibition Shoah and comics. These plates and drawings will remain visible in the exhibition until the end, on October 30, 2017.

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

Location: 1st floor. Free admission.

17H30 DEDICATION OF 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 bookshop of the Shoah Memorial.

Location: Bookstore – Free admission

6:30 PM FOR E: W OR THE MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD

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 childhood memory by Georges Perec. These autobiographical texts carry within them, with modesty and accuracy, the shattering of memories, the drama of a fractured childhood. A huge comedian offers his voice to a great book dedicated to the disappeared.

Venue: auditorium

PRICES: 12€/6€

7:30 PM FROM SHANGHAI TO LOS ANGELES: FILMING THE WITNESSES' WORDS

Meeting

In 1979, the first major project to collect testimonies from Holocaust survivors began in New Haven. To date, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has collected 4400 of them, documented, digitized and made them available to the public. Previously available at the Yale library, they are now available at the Multimedia Teaching Center 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 teaching center – Free admission

20h THE LIFE OF MY NEIGHBOR

Reading

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

Eugénie, known as Jenny or even Nini, was born in 1925, in Paris. Her parents, Rivka and Nissim, came from Poland to the country of the Enlightenment. They are sent back there to die in 1942. Jenny was able to escape the Vel d'Hiv roundup. Geneviève Brisac just moved. She meets her neighbor, Jenny, in front of the elevator on 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 of Jenny Plocki.

Reading by the author.

Location: Crypt – Free entry

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

8:30 PM CLANDESTINE NEWSPAPERS

Meeting

Around the publication of Journal 1943-1944 by Leïb Rochman and Carnets de clandestinité, Bruxelles 1942-1943 by Moshé Flinker, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Memorial of the Shoah, 2017; Journal of the Vittel camp by Yitzhak Katzenelson, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Shoah Memorial, 2016; The Deluge by Leïb Rochman, ed. Buchet-Chastel, 2017.

In 1943, Yitzhak Katzenelson kept his diary at the Vittel camp in France; Leïb Rochman wrote his diary while it was hidden behind a double partition in the farm of a Polish peasant, then in a pit dug in a stable – two documents of rare intensity written in Yiddish. Moshe Flinker is 16 years old in 1942 when he begins to write his diary in Brussels in Hebrew. Three years later he dies 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 THE BLACK MILK

Musical reading

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

Between a story from 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, music and live drawing allow a singular entry into the work that is offered here to the viewer. Reading the comic aloud is also describing the images that make it its 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, radio creator and 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 opportunities of the library

The Shoah Memorial Library 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 PM to 9 PM : reading texts course (Joseph Roth, alfred Döblin, Soma Morgenstern, ...).
Batches of newspapers and periodicals will be offered.

"Don’t let your books sleep in your cupboards" : a form will be made available to people who wish to donate works.

Free admission – Korczak room 2nd floor of the Shoah Memorial

The open-air bookshop will be held on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial – Free admission

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The bookshop of the Memorial will be open to the public throughout the duration of the Book Fair. The multimedia teaching center will be open from 10 am to 5:30 pm, and exceptionally until 8:30 pm on Thursday, June 8th.

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