The education department is one of the Memorial’s mediation tools. Its staff carries out awareness-raising and education campaigns in conjunction with schools, organizes guided tours, welcomes classes to the Memorial and holds youth workshops year round.
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The documentation center offers the general public and researchers unique textual, iconographic and audiovisual resources. It includes a photo library (over 280,000 photographs), library (some 50,000 works), archives (more than 30 million pieces) and Multimedia Learning Center. Two archive staff members welcome families to the Room of Names.
Contacts:
documentation@memorialdelashoah.org
archives@memorialdelashoah.org
phototheque@memorialdelashoah.org
bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org
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In conjunction with the education department and the places of memory department, the training department offers professionals, teachers, police officers, judges and students year round activities. Two summer universities, one in Paris, the other in Poland, and a winter university in Israel, round out the Memorial’s training offer.
Contact:
formation@memorialdelashoah.org
The cultural activities department organizes events in the auditorium as well as temporary exhibitions at the Memorial and outside its walls, in France and abroad. It also runs the Multimedia Learning Center and the bookshop.
Contacts:
programmation@memorialdelashoah.org
cem@memorialdelashoah.org
librairie@memorialdelashoah.org
The places of remembrance department offers support and expertise in developing places of memory. It is especially involved in projects to preserve and develop former internment camps, such as the Camp des Milles and the internment camps in the Loiret. The department also organizes trips to places of remembrance, especially Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
Contacts:
lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
inscription@memorialdelashoah.org
Founded in 1946,
Contact:
rhs@memorialdelashoah.org
The communication department aims to give the Shoah Memorial the highest possible public profile not only in France, where the cultural offer is especially dense, but also internationally. It also sets up media and institutional partnerships and develops and distributes all the in-house and external communication materials of the Memorial.
Contacts:
communication@memorialdelashoah.org
Communication and Outreach Officer
Flavie Bitan,
Webmaster
webmaster@memorialdelashoah.org
