From April 13, 2026 at 7 p.m. to April 14, 2026 at 7 p.m. the convoys 5 to 35 were read on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial.
On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, the date chosen by the State of Israel to commemorate the victims of the Shoah and the heroes of the Jewish resistance during the Second World War, an uninterrupted public reading takes place 24 hours a day, day and night.
During an uninterrupted 24-hour public reading, the names of all the deportees – man, woman, child – are pronounced one by one. This year, the names of the Jews deported from France by convoys 5 to 35 were read. Between 12:37 a.m. and 6:41 a.m., the names of the deportees from convoys 12 to 20 were read off remotely. That is a total of
The commemoration was broadcast live on the Shoah Memorial YouTube page.
Read the opening speech of François Heilbronn, vice-president of the Shoah Memorial
Ceremony carried out under the aegis of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, in partnership with Judaism on the Move (JEM), the association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France (FFDJF) at the initiative of this commemoration, the Shoah Memorial, the Consistoire de Paris and the Central Consistory.
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