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Writing about the Resistance
18 October 2026 at 2.00 pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial It is always a major challenge for authors to come to terms with a painful past that is sometimes closer than one might imagine. As part of ...
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Double event: Tribute to Marc Bloch
28 June 2026 at 2 pm at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy This event, organised to mark Marc Bloch’s induction into the Panthéon, will trace the life of the historian and co-founder of the École des ...
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Double event “Memory as a Legacy: Passing on History as Memories Fade”
29 March 2026 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial As part of the Seine-Saint-Denis’ Off Limits literary festival, the Drancy Memorial presents this talk on the painful and difficult themes ...
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Exhibition “The End of the Holocaust. Surviving, Testifying, Judging”
16 February 2026 at the Drancy Memorial This temporary exhibition traces the stages of the end of the war, from the discovery of the camps by the Allied armies to the repatriation of deportees ...
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“Ginette Kolinka, itinerary of an Auschwitz survivor” exhibition
Until 28 January 2024 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Ginette Kolinka bears witness and accompanies groups of schoolchildren to Auschwitz, where she was deported at the age of 19. She was deported ...
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Exhibition « We are leaving tomorrow: Letters from internees, from the Vel d’Hiv to Auschwitz »
March 27 – December 22, 2022 at the Drancy Memorial Treasures of the families who entrusted them to the Memorial, these letters are the moving testimony of the humanity behind the names and ...
Location
Drancy
It’s a strange feeling when you arrive in Drancy. The former internment camp and the Shoah Memorial opposite it are located near the junction of the avenues Jean Jaurès and Henri Barbusse. ...