The Shoah Memorial is active in the areas of research, documentation, publishing (La Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah), teaching, adult training and, with the museum, cultural mediation through cultural activities and visits to places of remembrance.
The Shoah Memorial has a
The Shoah Memorial museum has a permanent exhibition: 12 chronological and thematic sequences trace the history of France’s Jews during the Holocaust. Based on the documentation center’s archives, the exhibition shifts back and forth between individual and collective history. Every year, the museum also hosts temporary shows drawing their themes from history, art and literature. They open up windows not just on the fate of Jews in other European countries, but also on the 20th century and other genocides.
The Shoah Memorial has run campaigns to raise young people’s awareness for several years. In response to the alarming rise of racism and anti-Semitism, the Memorial wishes to step up its teaching activities, especially outside its walls. The expanding course offer now includes more inter-museum visits, training sessions in the provinces, delocalized workshops and exhibitions, study trips for students to places of remembrance and a CNRD preparation program. Since 2016, the History and Memory convention signed with the DILCRA has enabled the Memorial to develop initiatives to reduce fear and hatred among young people.
Police officers also take courses at the Memorial to increase their knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and the role played by the police in that period.
In the framework of the development of alternatives to prison and of sentences with an educational value, the Memorial has forged partnerships with the Paris, Lyon and Aix-en-Provence courts appeals to create citizenship courses for offenders convicted of committing racist or anti-Semitic acts.
More than ever, the Shoah Memorial is expanding its work and activities outside its walls to prevent racism, anti-Semitism and genocide, bringing exhibitions, talks and film screenings to many cities. Pedagogical teams travel to various places to organize and run workshops. Some of the Memorial’s exhibitions travel internationally. For students and teachers, the Memorial also sets up training courses and seminars to prevent racism, hatred and genocide.
Based on lists of Jews deported from France, the Memorial helps children, grandchildren and other family members find out what happened to relatives or assists them in documenting claims for
The Shoah Memorial hosts the Centre Georges Devereux, which holds a group discussion of people who were hidden children during the Holocaust one Sunday per month.
Psychologists from the Georges Devereux Center run the group with support from the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
The next meetings will take place on
(free, no reservation required).
Information
Georges Devereux Center
Tel.: 01 77 32 10 64 or by email:
Every year, the Shoah Memorial organizes
Since 2015, the Network of Places of Remembrance in France has brought together 11 sites historiques ayant des liens avec l'histoire et la mémoire de la persécution, de la déportation, de l'extermination, du sauvetage et de la résistance des Juifs de France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Encouraging the development of ties between its members, and relying on young ambassadors of memory, the network promotes knowledge and transmission of the history of the Holocaust at the national and local levels, affirming republican and democratic values, especially the fight against racism and anti-Semitism. Since 2010, the 11 institutions have met on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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