Tag | Exhibition “A Fighting Exile. Artists and France 1939-1945”

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Meeting with Annette Wieviorka to discuss her book “Itinerances: a historian’s journey”

18 March 2025 at 7pm, at the Caen Memorial Travelling with this great historian gives us a better understanding of her commitment to sharing memory, which is particularly evident in her books on the Shoah. With a look at the emblematic places familiar to the honorary director of research at the CNRS and vice-president of the Conseil supérieur des Archives. This is an opportunity for ...

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“1945: the liberation of the camps and the return of the deportees” themed guided tour

5 April 2025 at Montluc prison This tour has been offered every first Saturday of the month since January and will run until May. 80 years after the liberation of the camps, participants will be able to rediscover the lives of those interned in Montluc prison and later deported. 5 avril 2025 : Visite guidée thématique « 1945 : libération des camps et retour des déportés » – Mémorial ...

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“Michael Kenna, photographs of the Natzweiler concentration camp” exhibition

Until 15 March 2025 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members British photographer Michael Kenna has spent fifteen years travelling across Europe to capture the remains of Nazi camps on the continent. His motivation came from seeing a photo of the Auschwitz camp when Kenna was studying in London, and a visit to the Natzweiler concentration camp in 1986. The exhibition features 41 ...

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Resistance / Terrorism conference. The weight of words, the shock of ignorance: from the Army of Shadows to the present day

26 September 2024 at 7pm at the Institut Universitaire Rachi This lecture, in the form of a dialogue between Gérard Rabinovitch, vice-president of the Institut Universitaire Rachi, and Samuel Blumenfeld, film critic at Le Monde newspaper, will address this contemporary and difficult subject, the misuse of the term ‘Resistance’. The Army of Shadows is a reference to Joseph Kessel’s book ...

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Conference “Missak Manouchian, the stateless man in love with his homeland”

30 November 2023 at the Association Cultuelle Juive de Nancy Jean-Pierre Sakoun, historian and research engineer at the CNRS, looks back at the life of the famous Resistance fighter. The president of Unité Laïque has written extensively on current affairs from a secular and republican perspective. He was also behind the fight for the pantheonisation of Mélinée and Missak Manouchian, which ...

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