Around the inauguration

Conference

Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 8.30 p.m.

Location: Edmond J. Safra Auditorium, level - 1

Free entry for all events

The annihilation of Ukraine’s Jews

Between 1941 and 1944, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered in Ukraine. The research carried out by the association Yahad-In Unum on site for six years makes it possible to locate hundreds of forgotten mass graves, and to collect the stories of hundreds of Ukrainians who were witnesses of the massacres. In the presence of Edouard Husson, doctor in history, lecturer at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, and Father Patrick Desbois, president of Yahad-In Unum, director of the National Service of the Bishops of France for relations with Judaism, consultant to Saint-Headquarters for relations with Judaism.

Hosted by Sophie Nagiscarde, head of cultural activities at the Shoah Memorial.

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The auditorium is fully booked. However, you can register for the broadcasting rooms on the upper floors.

Preview screening in French

Sunday 24 June 2007, 4 p.m.

Location: Edmond J. Safra Auditorium, level - 1

Free entry for all events

Spell Your Name

by Sergey Bukovsky (USA, Russia, Ukraine, documentary, 90 min, 2006, vostf, Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk, executive producers, Mark Edwards, producer, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education).

On 29 and 30 September 1941, 33,771 Jews were shot at Babi Yar by the Nazi extermination commandos. In the months that followed, some 100,000 people - Jews, Gypsies, resistance fighters, prisoners of the Red Army - were murdered in this place. Sergey Bukovsky’s film is based on testimonies in the Ukrainian and Russian languages, collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute from survivors of massacres across Ukraine as well as people who rescued Jews condemned to death.

With Mark Edwards.

Book presentations

Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 7 p.m.

Location: Edmond J. Safra Auditorium, level - 1

Free entry for all events

Les chasseurs noirs: la brigade Dirlewanger de Christian Ingrao (Perrin, 2006)

The black hunters... Convicts, poachers, to whom Himmler offers freedom in exchange for a manhunt in the Ukrainian and Belarusian forests.

The Einsatzgruppen of Ralph Ogorreck (Calmann Lévy/ Shoah Memorial, 2007)

The book describes these volunteers of mass murder, perpetrators of the shootings that were the laboratory of the "Final Solution".

In the presence of Ralph Ogorreck, Christian Ingrao, deputy director of IHTP (CNRS), professor at École Polytechnique and IEP de Paris, Edouard Husson, doctor in history, lecturer at Paris IV - Sorbonne University and Georges Bensoussan, historian, director of the Calmann-Lévy co-publication / Shoah Memorial.