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1 June 2025 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Faced with the disappearance of the last witnesses and the exponential rise in anti-Semitic acts in Europe and beyond, Evelyn Askolovitch and other survivors are doing everything in their power to bear witness for new generations. Born Sulzbach in 1938 into a German Jewish family living in Holland, she was arrested with her parents in 1943 and deported ...
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Until 30 March 2025 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Homosexuality was a taboo subject in France until it was decriminalised in 1982, so the historical perspective, particularly during the dark pages of history, was also slow to be shared with the public. The Shoah Memorial in Drancy is hosting an exhibition and meetings on the history of the pink triangle worn by homosexual deportees, a symbol ...
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9 February 2025, 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial As part of the Drancy Meetings series, the Memorial is organising a conference with Miguel Haler, writer and musician, and Saimir Mile, lawyer and president of the association La voix des Rroms, moderated by the journalist Eduardo Castillo. This meeting will provide a better understanding of the history of those known as ‘Romanis, Gypsies, ...
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15 December 2024 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial The last survivors of the Shoah are leaving us, but questions about the subject are returning thanks to the work of historians, concerns linked to current events, but also through encounters with objects from the past. Anne Berest, author of La Carte postale (The Postcard) and Marie de Lattre, author of La Promesse (The Promise), will share ...
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Until 11 August at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy Presented as part of the Paris Olympics this summer, this exhibition highlights the issues of prejudice and discrimination, past and present. How gestures of friendship and support between athletes have left their mark on history just as much as current discriminatory policies. In particular, the victories of Jesse Owens, the black American ...
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26 May 2024 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial This tribute to the Resistance fighter who died a year ago at the age of 100 in Drancy, will use video extracts, photos and discussions to find out more about the life of this working-class woman who spent most of her life in Drancy. Odette Nilès joined the Resistance at the tender age of 15! Interned in several camps, she managed to escape and join ...
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31 March 2024 at 10.30am at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Many Jews lived in this popular département throughout the 20th century, in the suburbs of Paris at the beginning of the century, but also later in Sarcelles and other places emblematic of Jewish settlement in North Africa. Through the study of the different destinies of Jewish volunteers, members of the Resistance, hidden children and ...
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September 23, 2023 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mémorial de Montluc The last Auschwitz survivor in Lyon, Claude Bloch, now 94, is continuing his work of remembrance, passing on his story and giving testimonials in local schools. Arrested at the age of 15 with his mother and grandfather in June 1944, he was interned at Montluc, transferred to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944. ...
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Until 31 August 2023 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial. The Memorial organises guided tours of the site of the former camp, as well as of the permanent exhibition that traces its history. Every Sunday, a return shuttle service is organised from the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
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21 May 2023 at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy On the occasion of the publication of Sortis de l’ombre. Gypsies, Resistance fighters and Communists. Investigation into the ignored massacres of the “Das Reich” division by Gilles Alfonsi, the conference will review the conclusions of the book’s author in his presence. In a conversation with Eduardo Castillo, he answers the ...
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At the Shoah Memorial This travelling exhibition, consisting of 24 panels, is intended for students from the 3rd to the 12th grade. It looks at the way in which the spirit of the Third Republic and the role of the school in sharing republican and democratic values was shared in the Resistance. These humanist values, rejecting all forms of hatred and discrimination. Philosophically, but also ...
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When war was declared in September 1939, the authorities opened an assembly camp in a tileworks in the village Les Milles. Here they assembled foreign nationals from the hostile powers: anti-Nazi Germans and Austrians, Jews, and refugees. Among them were members of the émigré intelligentsia: Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Max Lingner. After the defeat of the French army and the armistice, the camp ...
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110 Avenue Jean Jaurès – Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, 93700 Drancy Tel : +33 1 42 77 44 72 Accueil
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