The Holocaust by bullets, shooting in Ukraine - Shoah Memorial
- Around the inauguration
- The programme of the colloquium (October 2007)
- The program of the cycle (oct. - nov. 2007)
- Publications
The programme of the cycle (September 2007)
«The History of the Jews of Ukraine» (1900-1944)
This cycle composed of conferences, screenings, readings and concerts evokes the political and cultural history before 1941 of the regions located today on the territory of Ukraine: Ukraine land of pogroms, of famines, massacres in the 1920s and 1930s is also the place where an intense political life (Zionism, Bund, agricultural communities) and cultural (cinema, literature) develops in the Jewish community. From 1941, the arrival of Nazi troops seals the fate of the Jewish populations who still reside there.
Monday 22 and Thursday 25 October 2007
2:30 PM
Round table
Political culture and society in the Jewish world in Ukraine before the Second World War.
In the presence of Delphine Bechtel, historian, University Paris IV – Sorbonne and Georges Bensoussan, historian, editor-in-chief of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah.
17h
Projection
The Last Letter
Anna Semionova lives in the Berditchev ghetto in 1941. A few days before she was killed, she writes one last letter.
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19h
Projection
Famous musical adapted from the short stories of Scholem Aleichem. Tevye, the milkman, has a hard time marrying off his five daughters who do as they please. Faced with the pogroms, they are forced to leave for the roads of exile.
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17:30
Projection
The Revolutionaries of Yiddishland
In 1897, the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia) was founded within the Yiddishland. Its role was major on the cultural and social level in Eastern Europe.
20h
Conference
The Bund in Ukraine – General Union of Jewish Workers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia
By Henri Minczeles, historian, journalist, specialist in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
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Projections
14h
Benya Krik
Benya and his gang evolve in the underground Jewish world of Odessa... until they are incorporated into a revolutionary regiment.
In the presence of Natacha Laurent, film historian, general delegate of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
16h
Jewish Luck
One of the first Soviet Yiddish films presented in the United States in the 1920s, according to Scholem Aleichem’s short stories.
In the presence of Natacha Laurent.
18h
Laughter through Tears
According to the stories of Sholem Aleichem: a portrait, between pathos and humor, of pre-revolutionary life in the shtetels.
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19h
Conference
Russian Jewish literature: affirmation of an identity or assimilation?
By Boris Czerny, lecturer in Russian languages and civilization, department of Slavic studies, University of Caen Basse-Normandie and Ariel Sion, head of the library of the Shoah Memorial / CDJC.
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19:30
Conference
Ukraine, land of famines and massacres in the 1930s
By Nicolas Werth, historian, director of research at the CNRS – Institute of Present-day History (IHTP).
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19h
Screening-conference
Appeal to the Jews of the whole world
In 1941, the greatest Soviet Jewish artists and writers, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish and Sergei Eisenstein, launched an "Appeal to the Jews of the World" so that they would engage with the Soviet people "in a sacred war against fascism". Furthermore, the Jewish Antifascist Committee records in a Black Book the atrocities committed by the Germans against the Jewish population of the USSR. In 1945, this book was brought to the attention of the Soviet prosecutor of the Nuremberg trial, then published in the United States.
The Jewish Antifascist Committee and the Black Book
By Alexandre Adler, historian, specialist in the former USSR and contemporary questions of international geopolitics.
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Monday 22 and Thursday 25 October 2007
8:30 PM
Concert
Yiddish blues
Talila, song
Teddy Lasry, piano
Pierre Mortarelli, double bass
Joseph Fartoukh, percussion
Talila’s voice, the notes of her musicians allow to hear current events, the presence of Yiddish and to feel the bursts of laughter and wounds.
14h
Projections
The Jews on the land
by Viktor Chklovski and Abram Room (documentary, 1926, with the collaboration of Vladimir Maïakovski, USSR)
This documentary, devoted to the Jewish colonies of Crimea, initiated in 1924 by the Soviet power and supported by American philanthropic associations, is one of the most convincing proposals of the "poetry cinema" that Chklovski called of his wishes.
The work of the Agro-Joint for the establishment of the Jews on earth in the USSR
Three years later, the Agro-Joint made another film on Jewish colonization in Crimea: in this feature documentary the role of the Americans, the means invested, the districts concerned by colonization are widely shown, with maps, diagrams and figures to support.
In the presence of Valérie Pozner, director of the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Human and Social Sciences in Moscow and Sophie Nagiscarde, head of cultural activities at the Shoah Memorial.
18h
Conference
By Oleg Budnitski, professor at the State Pedagogical University of Rostov, Russia.
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18h
Projection
Transnistria: the Hell
This documentary traces the fate of some 250,000 Romanian Jews in Transnistria, a region south of Ukraine along the Romanian border. Among the survivors of the Romanian concentration camps: the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfed.
19h
Conference
Romania and the Holocaust
By Radu Ioanid, director of the international archives program at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum, Serge Klarsfeld, lawyer, historian, president of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France, and Claude Singer, historian, head of the educational service of the Shoah Memorial.
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18h
Projection
Mein Krieg
Incorporated into the German army in 1941, six German operators film the invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. They come back today on these images and the context of this filming.
20h
Conference
How the German troops in the East perceived the local populations. The practices of extreme violence
By Christian Ingrao, historian, deputy director of the IHTP-CNRS and Christian Delage, historian, lecturer at the University Paris VIII and at the EHESS.
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18h
Projection
Nazi’s Secrets Killing Squads
The film features an interview by historian Christopher Browning with Benjamin Ferencz, former chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947-1948, as well as archival footage of the trial and the killings.
20h
Conference
The Nazi attitude and the vision of the future Ukraine. The Einsatzgruppe D
By Andrej Angrick, historian, professor at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Wendy Lower, historian, professor at Towson University, USA. Led by Pierre Ayçoberry, historian, professor at the University of Strasbourg.
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14h
Projection
Heinrich Himmler: the executor
The Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), at the head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, is, after Hitler, the most powerful figure in Nazi Germany.
3 PM
Conference
Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Erich von Manstein: their role within the Nazi power and the process of implementing the genocide of the Jews.
By Rita Thalmann, historian, professor emeritus at the university Paris VII – Denis Diderot.
16:30
Projection
The Heydrich Kingdom (Heydrichs Platz)
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was responsible for the Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo ('security police' comprising the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, secret service of the SS, the Gestapo, and the Kripo, crime control police).
18h
Projection
Manstein – The Strategist (Manstein – Der Stratege)
Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein (1887-1973) is the leader of the 11th Army on the Eastern Front, to which Einsatzgruppe D is attached.
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Projections
18h
Ladies tailor
Kiev, September 29, 1941. The last hours of the life of an old Jewish tailor and his family before their execution in the ravine of Babi Yar.
20h
Spell Your Name
On September 29 and 30, 1941, 33,771 Jews are 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 there. While the survivors speak, the director scrutinizes the reactions of today’s Ukrainians who take note of these testimonies, of their history.
In the presence of Mark Edwards, producer, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
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20h
Reading
Life story of
How can a child who has lost everything survive several years alone in the dark Ukrainian forests? Aharon Appelfeld is ten years old when he escapes the camp. His long wandering will lead him, four years later, to Palestine. Immersed in silence since the beginning of the war, he learns a new language. He will now use it to try to connect the different strata of his life to their lost roots. By Francis Huster, actor.
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19:30
Projection
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan, a young American Jew, goes to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during the Nazi invasion. This journey, begun in the hope of reconstructing a family’s history, will be marked by the weight and perils of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, the meaning of friendship and love.
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19h
Conference
The Neighbors
The collective massacre of the Jedwabne Jews by the Poles in the summer of 1941 reopened the historiography of relations between Poles and Jews during the Second World War. By Jan T. Gross, historian, professor at the university of Princeton and Annette Becker, professor at the university Paris X – Nanterre.