The educational service is one of the mediation tools of the Memorial. In connection with schools, the teaching staff carries out various awareness-raising and educational activities. It organizes guided tours, hosts classes at the Memorial and offers workshops all year round to young people.
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The documentation centre offers the public and researchers a set of unique textual, iconographic and audiovisual resources. It includes the photo library (more than 280,000 photographs), the library (some 50,000 references), the archives (more than 30 million items) and the multimedia teaching center. Two members of the archives department are dedicated to welcoming families into the Hall of Names.
Contacts:
documentation@memorialdelashoah.org
archives@memorialdelashoah.org
phototheque@memorialdelashoah.org
bibliotheque@memorialdelashoah.org
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In connection with the pedagogical service and the service of development of places of memory, the training service offers throughout the year activities designed for audiences of professionals, teaching, police and justice as well as for students. Two summer universities, in Paris and in Poland, and a winter university in Israel complete the training offer of the Memorial.
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The cultural activities department is in charge of programming and organizing events at the auditorium, as well as temporary exhibitions at the Memorial but also outside the walls, in France and abroad. The cultural activities department also includes the multimedia teaching centre and the bookstore.
Contacts:
programmation@memorialdelashoah.org
librairie@memorialdelashoah.org
The Shoah Memorial, at the international level, notably aims to impact memory
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The Development and Visits of Places of Memory service offers support and expertise in the development of places of memory. He is particularly involved in projects to safeguard and develop former internment camps, such as the Camp des Milles or the internment camps in Loiret. This service is also responsible for organizing trips to places of remembrance, particularly the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
Contacts:
lieux@memorialdelashoah.org
inscription@memorialdelashoah.org
The Shoah Memorial hosts one Sunday per month, a meeting of a group of former children who were hidden during the Shoah. This group is led by psychologists from the Georges-Devereux Center, with support from the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
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Georges-Devereux Center
Tel.: 01 77 32 10 64 or by email:
Created in 1946 under the name Le Monde juif, the world’s first magazine specialized on the Shoah became in 1997 the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah. This biannual publication is a scientific tool, but also a place of exchange and reflection between researchers and witnesses from around the world. The team of the journal also publishes, in co-edition with Calmann-Lévy, the works of the collection Mémorial de la Shoah.
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The objective of the communication department is to give the Shoah Memorial the best visibility with the general public in France, where the cultural offer is particularly dense, but also internationally.
In addition, the communication department sets up media and institutional partnerships. He is also in charge of the creation and dissemination of all internal and external communication tools for the Memorial.
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