Inauguration 9 mars 2017 → de 18h à 20h / Workshop 11 mars 2017 → de 10 h à 16h30
Jean et Hélène à Aubergenville
Hélène Berr avait 21 ans en 1942. Parisienne, étudiante à la Sorbonne, elle a tenu son journal au jour le jour d’avril 1942 à février 1944. Ce texte, d’une qualité littéraire exceptionnelle, mêle l’expérience quotidienne de l’insoutenable et le monde rêvé des lettres, alternant à chaque instant entre l’espoir et le désespoir.
Arrêtée le 8 mars 1944, elle est déportée à Auschwitz avec son père et sa mère. Elle survit presque jusqu’au bout à l’épreuve, succombant à l’épuisement à Bergen-Belsen en avril 1945, cinq jours avant la libération du camp.
L’exposition, débordant le cadre stricte du journal et de la personnalité d’Hélène Berr, s’élargit au contexte de l’Occupation et d ela persécution des Juifs en France. Elle offre l’occasion de découvrir l’original du manuscrit de ce journal publié en 2008, ainsi que de nombreuses archives familiales déposées au Mémorial de la Shoah.
Northwest Reno Library
2325 Robb Dr
Reno, NV 89523
This exhibition is based on the journal written by Hélène Berr, a young Jewish French woman, whose promising future was brutally cut short by Vichy Government’s laws and the extermination plan imagined by the Nazis. Studying English Literature at Sorbonne University, Helene Berr was 21 years old when she began her journal. We follow her steps through Paris under the German Occupation, perceiving the daily experience of the unbearable, oscillating between hope and despair, until her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.
While revealing a true premonition of the inescapable, this subtle testimony is exceptionally poetic, has rare literary qualities, and carries a universal dimension that regards and questions every human being with sincerity. The exhibition however goes beyond the framework of Helene Berr’s journal and personality, as it broadens the context of the Occupation and addresses largely the persecution of the Jews in France. With the support of photographs, archives, films, interactive animations and maps, this exhibition shows how the daily lives of Jews had been impacted by these terrible acts of violence.
Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 6pm
RSVP by March 4 at deborah.farnault@memorialdelashoah.org
Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 10:00am–4:30pm
“History of the Jews in France under the Vichy Regime”
Professional credits available for teachers
RSVP by March 8 at deborah.farnault@memorialdelashoah.org
Saturday, April 1, 2017, from 11am–1pm
From Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens (54 minutes, France, 2012)
A film screening followed by a discussion with director and historian Christian Delage, organized by the Mémorial de la Shoah and the Northwest Reno Library.
This exhibition was designed, created, and distributed by the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, France (curators Karen Taieb and Sophie Nagiscarde), with the guidance of Mariette Job (niece of Hélène Berr), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.
This presentation was made possible through the support of the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, the Embassy of France in the United States, Washoe County, Washoe County Library System, Friends of Washoe County Library, and SNCF.
Free admission
Northwest Reno Library
2325 Robb Dr, Reno, NV 89523
