Week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism
On the occasion of the week and actions against racism and antisemitism, the Shoah Memorial offers you different activities.
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Open-air exhibition: the genocides of the 20th century
Allée des Justes, near the Shoah Memorial in Paris
from March 22, 2021.
The Memorial adapts to the current context of closure of cultural spaces and occupies the Alley of the Righteous (Paris 4e) with the exhibition The Genocides at the XXe century, presented to the public and passersby outside. These panels, analyzing the clichés of each genocide of the last century, will present a rich selection of photographs, archives, testimonies, made visible to the greatest number, in this pedestrian street, between the public college François Couperin and the Shoah Memorial.
Genocide is a specific offence under international criminal law and a well-individualized concept. The specificity of this offense, like the precision of this concept, are emphasized by a comparative approach of three mass murders perpetrated in XXe century, proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be genocides. These are, in chronological order: the destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, the Jews of Europe, the Tutsi of Rwanda. These genocides are comparable. The analysis of the similarities and differences they present allows for a better understanding of each one’s mechanisms.
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Sunday, March 21, 2:30 PM
Meeting – Game of mirrors between Islam and Judaism
On the occasion of the reissue of The Jews in the Quran by Meier M. Bar-Asher, preface by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Albin Michel, 2021.
For nearly two centuries, thinkers and researchers have been questioning the massive presence in the Quran of elements belonging to or derived from Judaism. Breaking down the preconceived ideas of an anti-Semitic Qur'an and an Islam conveying a "hatred of the Jew", the book analyzes the points of contact and friction between the two religions. An essential lighting to defuse the debate on the complex question of the relationship between the Islamic tradition and the figure of the Jew and Judaism.
In the presence of the author, Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of Drancy, and Mohammed Ali Amir-Moezzi, historian and islamologist, director of studies at EPHE.
Moderated by Julien Darmon, editor at Albin Michel, specialist in Hebrew and Arabic religious literatures.
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Sunday, March 21, 4:30 PM
The Jews, the Muslims, France: a little-known story
On the occasion of the publication of Jews and Muslims in France. The weight of fraternity by Ethan B. Katz, preface by Benjamin Stora, Belin, 2018. Relations between Jews and Muslims cannot be limited to their conflictual dimension. Ethan B. Katz takes a fresh look at this history by showing that political and cultural fraternities existed first in the colonial space, then on the ground of the metropolis.
The reduction of these categories of French people to religious and conflictual identities is recent, while the colonial question has, in the first place, created a gradual gap between the two communities.
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Tuesday, March 23, 19:30
Poland: the history of the Holocaust in the praetorium
Meeting organized with the Review of the history of the Shoah.
Historians Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski are accused of defamation for having published a book claiming the complicity of a Polish village mayor in the murder of Jews during the Second World War. What does this trial mean and what does it say about the conditions of research on the Holocaust in Poland? What are the academic and political implications of this procedure? More broadly, how to make history in a climate of growing authoritarianism in Poland and several central European countries?
In the presence of Barbara Engelking, Professor, Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, and Paul Gradvohl, Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, director of the Centre for Research on the History of Contemporary Central Europe (CRHECC).
Moderated by Audrey Kichelewski, lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Strasbourg and co-director of La Revue d'histoire de la Shoah.
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Thursday, March 25, 7:30 PM
Conspiracy theories in times of pandemic
Defined since 1945, conspiracy theories continue to flourish, spread on a global scale like the diseases born from the globalization of changes. Each new event that occurs, whether it concerns politics, the economy or health (such as Covid-19) can be the subject of a new conspiracy theory, which it is however possible to decipher and therefore fight.
In the presence of Antoine Bristielle, PhD student at Grenoble Alpes university, member of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, and Rudy Reichstadt, founder of the Observatoire du conspirationnisme.
Led by Tristan Mendès France, specialist in digital cultures, associate lecturer at the University Paris 1.
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Sunday, March 28, 4 PM
The Rendez-vous of Drancy: literary with Beata Umubyeyi Mayor
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare, Rwanda, in 1979. She arrived in France in 1994, after having survived the genocide of the Tutsi. All your children scattered, his first novel, features Blanche, a survivor of the genocide of the Tutsi, who lives in Bordeaux. She built her life in France, with her husband and her mixed-race boy Stokely. But after years of exile, when Blanche returns to her mother Immaculata, the painful memory resurfaces. Will they both be able to talk to each other, forgive each other, love each other again? Stokely, caught between two countries, wants to understand where he comes from. Ode to persevering mothers, to transmission, to the life drive that drives each of us, All your children scattered carries the voices of three generations trying to reconnect broken ties and find their place in today’s world.
Les Rendez-vous de Drancy are all hosted by Alix Quéré, coordinator in charge of educational activities at Drancy, Shoah Memorial.
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