2014 Annual Report editorial 2014 was a turning point for the Shoah We are ready and willing to contribute all Memorial. our know-how and energy to this struggle, which has been our own for the past In 2014, the President of France and the 10 years. government acknowledged, emphasized and proclaimed the absolute need to Those who have always supported us can educate youth and train teachers to rest assured: We have not overlooked our combat the scourges threatening our other missions, in particular maintaining society’s very foundations: racism, the specific nature of the history and anti-Semitism and intolerance. memory of the Holocaust by hosting major exhibitions on the destruction of The Memorial has been not just European Jews and other genocides of the proclaiming that for years, but doing it. 20th century at the Memorial and outside Since its renovation in 2005, hundreds of its walls, organising cultural activities all thousands of young people from the year round, opening our archives up to suburbs, Paris and the provinces have researchers and historians and tirelessly visited the Memorial to learn about the collecting and preserving archival items horrifying excesses that happen in (our last national drive, which was very societies ruled by totalitarianism and successful, travelled to 16 cities in France). violence. We shall continue to do so in the future. The Memorial has provided training for We also commemorated the 70th thousands of teachers. It has accompanied anniversary of the last transports’ thousands of children to Auschwitz and departures in 1944. given them the opportunity to meet The immense work carried out by the former deportees who told them about Memorial with an incredibly devoted team their ghastly experiences. The Memorial on the job nearly night and day is only has often helped these young people possible with help from generous donors, change their minds about “the other”. Our including the FMS (Foundation for the work has won recognition: Government Memory of the Shoah), several officials, the Paris public prosecutor’s foundations, companies as committed to office and the Ministry of National our mission as we are and, most of all, you, Education have turned to us for help with our loyal public. The Memorial would the task they have finally recognised as a never have been able to grow without you. priority by creating, under the aegis of the Prime Minister, the Interministerial Thank you for your support. Delegation of the Fight Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, whose French Éric de Rothschild acronym is DILCRA. President of the Shoah Memorial Éric de Rothschild. © DR. 2 the year 2014 in figures attendance . 227,410 visitors in 2014 (202,500 in Paris and 24,910 a rise of over 13% (compared to 5,300 in 2013) in Drancy) . 5,791 people attended events in the auditorium . 146,000 visitors to the touring exhibitions in France (5,677 in 2013) and abroad . 1,443 visitors to the Multimedia Learning Centre . Over 50,000 young visitors to the Memorial, 94% of (1,392 in 2013) them schoolchildren (1,785 groups at the Paris site and 285 at the Drancy site, compared to a total of 1,900 . 6,082 users of the reading room (5,671 en 2013) groups in 2013) . 1,534,217 pages viewed during 488,879 visits . 6,000 professional visitors, including 3,350 teachers (400,000 in 2013) to the Memorial’s Websites from France and 1,800 from 13 European countries, Total number of visitors 227,410 no. of visitors to the Shoah Memorial 24,910 in Drancy 219,000 202,500 in Paris , 17,000 in Drancy 202,000 in Paris , , , , , , , , , , , 3 activities archives . 7 temporary exhibitions at the Memorial . 13,218 photographs (19,500 in 2013), 300 posters, (6 in Paris and 1 in Drancy) 242 films (250 in 2013), over140,000 pages of archives (68,800 in 2013), 6,261 books and periodicals . 81 teacher-training programmes (93 in 2013) (4,432 in 2013) acquired in 2014 . 90 events in the auditorium, including 5 symposia . 184 projects (works, exhibitions, films, etc.) (69 in 2013) used photographs from the Memorial’s collections in 2014 (174 in 2013) . 28 ceremonies organised, including 5 annual commemorations and 16 readings of names . 3,713 documents communicated in the reading room of deportees on the transports in 1944 (22 in 2013) (4,345 in 2013) . 30 study and remembrance trips (26 in 2013) visibility from Paris and the provinces . 1,540 press articles . 84 venues hosted our touring exhibitions . 80,000 leaflets distributed in the Île-de-France tourist networks and 150,000 in Paris hotels . 500 posters in Paris shops advertising auditorium events . 28 film shoots, including two feature-length films . The Shoah Memorial is a member of the Marais culture + network, that brings together museums and cultural institutions settled in the Marais. highlights of 2014 5 Discover The temporary exhibitions The Shoah Memorial hosted six temporary exhibitions in 2014. A record- breaking 43,000 people visited Scenes from the Ghetto, an exhibition of photographs taken in the ghettos during the Second World War. Lastly, After recognising himself on the transmission of knowledge about the other 20th century genocides being one poster of Scenes from the Ghetto, Martin Gray, the French-American of the Shoah Memorial’s basic missions, this year we hosted an exhibition on writer of Polish-Jewish origin, visited the exhibition at the Shoah Memorial the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. on 7 February 2014. Mémorial de la Shoah. Scenes from the Ghetto Salonika: Epicentre of the Destruction Scenes from the Ghetto of the Jews of Greece (March-August 1943) Institutional partner: 13 November 2013 to 2 November 2014 Ministry of Defence (DMPA) . 1 December 2013 to 29 March 2014 Media partners: France culture, Images magazine, The exhibition offered an analytical and Toute l’Histoire, Exponaute. historical reading of a selection of Ten thousand people visited this Press visibility: 210. little-known photographs from collections exhibition on the destruction of the Jews Audiovisual advertising: worldwide, taken in various ghettos. They of Salonika, “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” Billboards on the Toute l’Histoire told the story of the lingering deaths of that was home to 56,000 Jews before the channel. hundreds of thousands of Jews confined Second World War. Most were deported Promotional campaign: 2 street marketing operations in in the ghettos. Daniel Blatman, historian between March and August 1943. Leon February and June 2014. and professor at the Institute of Saltiel, a doctoral student in Greek 10,000 bilingual flyers distributed. Video on the social networks and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew modern history at the University of in the newsletter. University of Jerusalem, curated the Macedonia, curated the exhibition, which In the Paris metro, 250 double exhibition; Roman Polanski was an received loans from the Jewish Museums locations (1 x 1.50 m) from 25 February to 3 March 2014. advisor. Drawing over 43,000 visitors and of Thessaloniki and Athens and was In Paris, 440 locations from selling out the catalogues, Scenes from the organised in partnership with the Institut 19 February to 4 March 2014 and 200 from 28 May to 11 June 2014 Ghetto met an expectation and drew not français in Thessaloniki and the Hellenic offered by the City of Paris. only Memorial regulars but also a new Cultural Centre. Exhibition catalogue public interested in photography. Guided tours Mini-website dedicated to the exhibition Newspaper: Comment en arrive-t-on là ? (How Did Things Get to That Point?) in partnership with the Memorial circulated by the Île-de-France Region (150,000 copies in Île-de-France high schools). 6 Rwanda 1994: The Tutsi Genocide Rwanda 1994: the Tutsi Genocide The World Knew: Jan Karski’s Mission Partners: Ibuka France, CNLG for Humanity (National Commission for the 11 April to 5 October 2014 Fight Against Genocide) and Kigali Genocide Memorial-Centre, Aegis 27 October to 2 November 2014 Trust. Commemorating the 20th anniversary Media partners: of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the As part of Jan Karski Year, proclaimed to L’Histoire, Nova, RFI, Rue89, Toute l’Histoire. Memorial, which has been committed for mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of several years to transmitting knowledge the Polish resistance member who Press visibility: 84. about the Holocaust and the other smuggled out proof of the Holocaust, the Promotional campaign: The promotional film ran 20 times genocides that occurred in the 20th Memorial hosted this exhibition produced on the Toute l’Histoire channel century, hosted a memorial exhibition by the Polish History Museum in starting on 24 April. It also appeared on social networks and in on the topic. Around a million people partnership with the Ministry of Foreign the newsletter. — three-quarters of Rwanda’s Tutsi Affairs of Poland and the Jan Karski Posters in shops in Paris and population — were murdered between Educational Foundation. bordering suburbs: 1,000 locations (40x60 cm) from 21 to 27 April 2014. 7 April and mid-July 1994. In the Paris metro, 200 spaces (1x1.50 m) from 22 to 28 April 2014. 400 posters (40x60 cm) in Parisian The exhibition, which drew 20,000 libraries, documentation centres, visitors, was organised with the archives, universities and cultural association Ibuka France and received centres. 10,000 leaflets distributed. loans from the National Commission for Radio commercials: the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) and 35 airings on radio Africa n°1 from Kigali Genocide Memorial-Centre, Aegis 11 to 17 May 2014. Trust. The curators were Hélène Dumas, 20 airings on Radio Nova. 15 airings on RFI. historian at the EHESS; Stéphane Audoin- Exhibition booklet Rouzeau, historian and research director at Mini-website dedicated to the the EHESS; and Marcel Kabanda, historian exhibition and president of Ibuka France.