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ANNUAL REPORT ÉDITORIAL EDITORIAL et ravis que le Cercil ait rejoint le ait rejoint que le Cercil et ravis Mémorial. activité de notre développement Le représente qui pédagogique de 50% de notre près aujourd’hui plusieurs depuis En effet, budget. un est devenu le Mémorial années, l’éducation pour du combat acteur la et contre l’antisémitisme contre qui les armes avec de l’autre, haine de l’éducation : celles les nôtres sont de travail Ce de l’Histoire. et celles dans l’accomplissons nous terrain, les dans et notamment France la toute sensibles. zones • et d’évoluer cesse ne Mémorial Le ceci création, sa après ans 76 d’avancer société de la des besoins en fonction en restant tout il travaille, laquelle dans nos par définie la mission fidèle à fondateurs. réalise se ne travail formidable ce Tout bénévoles, aux personnel, au que grâce ici du que je remercie donateurs aux reconnaissance une Ayez du cœur. fond et grands ces pour particulière toute qui ont de l’enfer, rescapés amis, chers de témoigner. courage et le volonté la l’un des outils sont témoignages Ces contre lutte cette dans efficaces les plus l’antisémitisme. Éric de Rothschild Shoah de la du Mémorial Président The Memorial is evolving and making making and evolving is Memorial The by creation, its after 77 years progress of society needs shifting the to adapting out set mission the to true staying while founders. its by be would work amazing of this None volunteers staff, our without possible the from I thank whom donors, and us be especially Let heart. of my bottom friends dear and great our to grateful and willingness great show who hell the about in testifying courage a time at And endured. have they that increasingly grow witnesses such when of responsibility and duty the scarce, important more the all are Memorial the the down passing and in preserving Holocaust. the of history Éric de Rothschild Memorial Shoah of the President 1 commemoration of the the of commemoration th ditorial Une fréquentation en hausse de en hausse fréquentation Une une après de 10% en 2017, plus de de 20% en 2018. Plus augmentation et, si on inclut à Paris 282 000 visiteurs les murs, hors activités et nos le Cercil qui personnes de 470 000 plus c’est éducatif en contact sont ou visitent le Mémorial. avec qui temporaires Des expositions August succès : un grand ont connu et Klarsfeld et Serge , Beate Sander . d’artistes Regards le Cercil avec rapprochement Un du des enfants Mémorial - Musée et de d’études (centre Vél’d’Hiv des camps l’histoire sur recherches en créé du Loiret), d’internement Mouchard d’Hélène à l’initiative 1992 Zay, Jean fille du ministre la Zay, la par en 1944 assassiné cruellement de travail, des années Après Milice. alors Zay, Mouchard en 2011, Hélène un à établir a réussi présidente, dédié à à Orléans Mémorial musée du d’internement des camps l’histoire et des Mairie de la l’aide avec Loiret honorés sommes . Nous collectivités genocide against the Tutsi was was Tutsi the against genocide exhibitions, five through highlighted the at a cycle partnerships, new three a communications and auditorium Memorial; the by initiated campaign testimonies, screenings, cycles, the other many and commemorations an audience attracted events enthusiastic, ever proved that in partake to willing and curious made of remembrance work the Memorial. the by possible attendance rose by more than 15% than more by rose attendance visitors of 321,705 a total to in 2019, more and Drancy, and in Paris in part people took 376,000 than Memorial the by organized events walls; its beyond within and were exhibitions temporary the The Art particularly successful, highly the Occupation; under Market on the works renovation started we of the update the and of Names Wall the to on it, thanks inscribed names by out carried work research thorough Department; Archives the Shoah of the first Generations the than more together brought Forum over all from ages 600 people of all and abroad;France the 25 É dense riche, année une 2018 fut L’année le Mémorial. pour d’espoir et pleine qui se les évènements tous Parmi plus sont certains succédé, sont que d’autres, essentiels plus importants, : notamment • • •

· Editorial with emotions filled was 2019 year The different between interactions and are Here audiences. and generations highlights: key of the some · · · · · Éric de Rothschild. © DR. Éric de Rothschild © DR. Activity Report Report Activity Shoah Memorial Shoah Memorial Siren 784 243 784 Siren Online ISSN N° 2608-242X www.memorialdelashoah.org © Shoah Memorial, Paris, 2020 Paris, © Shoah Memorial, [email protected] 17 Rxue Geoffroy l’Asnier / 75004 Paris / 75004 l’Asnier 17 Rxue Geoffroy Officially recognized non-profit foundation in France foundation in recognized non-profit Officially President of the Shoah Memorial: Éric de Rothschild President of rd anniversary of the departure of the first of the departure of the anniversary th in partnership with the Memorial Memorial with the in partnership the raids In the time of Hubert Cain and his wife Larissa at the Shoah Memorial in 2015. Hubert Cain and his wife Lebaz. Jean Marc © Photo: Tribute to Hubert Cain to Hubert Tribute 90. aged in Paris, 2019 29, on December away passed Cain Hubert 3 the on Friday of Montmartre Cemetery at the buried was He The President, Board and employees pay tribute to the to the tribute pay employees and Board President, The whom without memory of the activist of this memory today. it is be what not would Memorial the Ever positive and enthusiastic, Hubert Cain was also warm warm also was Cain Hubert enthusiastic, and positive Ever with others. interactions in his human deeply and freight train to leave France in 1942. As Deputy Secretary General of General Secretary Deputy As in 1942. France train to leave freight evolution the supported Cain Hubert Treasurer, then Memorial, the professionalism, with rigor, 30 years than more for Memorial of the humility. and much availability devotion, determination, A former engineer of the Mines school and Honorary Director of the of the Director Honorary and school Mines of the engineer A former in Larissa wife with his together got involved Cain Hubert Snecma, the before 1970s, the as early as Klarsfeld et Beate of Serge work the of France Deported Jews of the Daughters and Sons of the Association of the work in the involved gets he 1990s, In the created. even was Corcos’ Jean and latter’s the on In 1992, Klarsfeld. with Serge Memorial of the mobility and conceptualization to the contributes he initiative, retrospective Hall City Paris at the 1992 27, on March inaugurated CDJC, the and 50 the for Chirac, Jacques by January, with his family and loved ones in attendance, including Serge Serge including in attendance, ones loved and family with his January, of the Memory the for Foundation the of Director Klarsfeld, et Beate of representatives and employees as well as Allouche Philippe Shoah de Rothschild, Éric President which among Memorial, of the Board the Fredj. Jacques Director and Heilbronn, François Vice-President 2019 in numbers

attendance · more than 80,000 people took part in · 8,529 people attended events in the activities archives and collections visibility educational activities offered by the auditorium (8,387 en 2018) · 321,705 visitors in Paris and Drancy Memorial in Paris and Drancy, and · 8 new temporary exhibitions · 15,772 images, 503 films, · 2,098 mentions or people used the audiovisual in 2019 (versus 282,732 in 2018) 92,000 throughout France · 400 were created by the team at 1,698,989 pages of documents and articles in the media archives center (400 in 2018) the Paris Shoah Memorial 9,715 books and periodicals were · 22,866 at the Cercil · 2,966 school groups went on tours · 548,554 visits and readers came to the reading acquired in 2019 (2,019 at the Paris Memorial and · 5,528 · 103 venues hosted traveling 1,408,491 total page views room (7,389 in 2018) · 192,302 people visited temporary 436 in Drancy) exhibitions in France and abroad · 197 projects (books, exhibitions, for all sites and exhibitions in Paris and Drancy, pages were viewed on the films...) used photographs from the 69.75% new visitors and 31,684 visited traveling · 7,353 professionnals received training · 898,469 · 137 teacher training courses, Memorial’s websites Memorial’s collection in 2019 exhibitions in France and abroad (versus 9,491 in 2018), including 32 for primary and · 27,155 likes on Facebook, 5,591 teachers throughout France 105 for secondary schools · 7,520 documents were made 10,200 followers on Twitter, · around 344,600 people visited our (versus 5,268 in 2018) and available in the reading room 3,200 followers on Instagram sites and a total of around 376,000 893 police academy cadets · 108 events in the auditorium people took part in events organized (versus 1,557 in 2018) · noteworthy acquisitions: Serge · 230,000 brochures distributed in the by the Memorial · 8 major commemorations were and Beate Klarsfeld gifted the Île-de-France tourism network 2019 IN NUMBERS organized and Memorial 1,200 boxes of archives 16 ceremonies in remembrance of · a multimedia campain was dedicated those deported in 1943 to the Drancy Shoah Memorial using the catchphrase “Paris-Drancy, 12 km, total number of visitors at the Shoah Memorial 321,705 · 35 study trips and journeys of Drancy-Auschwitz 1,220 km” for the 2019 IN NUMBERS (34,152 Drancy, remembrance from Paris and various second time along metro platforms, 287,553 Paris) no. of visitors regions, most to Auschwitz, with on buses in the 93 department, in 3,518 participants (individuals, stations and in movie theatres 310,000 students and teachers)

300,000 282,732 · a multimedia campaign for (28,836 Drancy, · 530 off-site workshops each temporary exhibition 290,000 253,896 Paris) were held in schools 280,000 · 35 film shoots · 26 trainings sessions were held 270,000 257,239 (28,305 Drancy, abroad with 260,000 228,934 Paris) 2,100 teachers involved in 250,000 11 countries, in Europe and Rwanda

240,000 227,410 224,970 (24,910 Drancy, (23,370 Drancy, 230,000 219,000 202,500 Paris) (17,000 Drancy, 201,600 Paris) 212,421 (24,344 Drancy, 220,000 202,000 Paris) 188,077 Paris) 210,000 205,860 200,249 200,000

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Minister of Culture Franck Riester (center) visits the exhibition The Art Market under the Occupation on the night of its inauguration, with former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius (left) and Scientific Curator and Art Historian Emmanuelle Polack (right). © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. The Art Market under paradigms of a prosperous art market Temporary exhibitions in the context of the persecution and the Occupation deportation of France’s Jews by the 63,151 March 21 – November 3, 2019 The Internment of the then national-socialist regime aided by visitors the Vichy regime. The Shoah Memorial Nomads, a French Story During World War II, the art market in 13,523 France flourished. The sale, trafficking looked into the societal stakes linked to (1940-1946) visitors (between January and exchange of often high-priced the transfer of cultural objects during November 14, 2018 – March 17, 2019 works of art impacted the trajectory of that time, their origins and the means and March 2019) works belonging to Jewish families. used to look for them. From October 1940 to May 1946, more Similarly, many players in the art than 6,500 people, mostly French, Scientific committee: market, stigmatized because they Emmanuelle Polack, Art Historian including a large number of children, were deemed to belong to the “Jewish General committee and coordination: were interned in more than 30 camps Marie-Édith Agostini, assisted by race”, were hard hit by anti-Semitic Diane Royer, Shoah Memorial for nomads throughout France. In Display design: Jérôme Bonin, president of the Memorial of laws. This exhibition showed how the October 2016, President François Ramy Fischler France’s Nomads, at the opening of the exhibition. history of artistic taste would evolve Hollande, in a speech at the site of the © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. then under the influence of Germany’s Montreuil-Bellay camp, acknowledged President of the Shoah Memorial Éric de nazi arts-related policy. Through the responsability of the French Rothschild at the opening of the exhibition Through Artists’ Eyes specific examples, it shed light on the The Art Market under the Occupation. Republic in what are remembered as December 12, 2018 © Shoah Memorial. dark times in the country’s history. – February 10, 2019 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

With this exhibition, the Shoah In the 1970s, many contemporary artists Memorial shed light on France’s policy began focusing on the Holocaust. between 1939 and 1946 aimed at those Looking at genocide and, beyond that,

2019 HIGHLIGHTS whom its laws referred to as Nomads. the disappearance of the individual, Although different from Germany’s they questioned how memory is policy towards “Zigeuner” (Gypsies) depicted. The Shoah Memorial often in the rest of Europe, this was one of asks them to share their work with its the most dramatic episodes in France visitors. Their point of view seems during the World War II, a terrible so vital to the efforts of transmission chapter that was long overlooked. carried out by the Memorial’s teams that several important works appear Scientific committee: Ilsen About, Researcher at the CNRS, Centre Georges Simmel, EHESS; Henriette throughout the permanent exhibition. Asséo, Professor at EHESS, Member of the Executive This show featured works by Sylvie Committee of Gypsy studies at Paris-Descartes Entre l’écoute et la parole. Derniers témoins, University; Jérôme Bonin, President of the Memorial Blocher, Arnaud Cohen, Natacha Nisic Auschwitz 1945-2005, by Esther Shalev-Gerz. of France’s Nomads; Alexandre Doulut, Historian, PhD and Esther Shalev-Gerz as well as a © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. Candidate at Paris 1 University; Emmanuel Filhol, project by Christian Delage on the Teacher and Researcher at Bordeaux 1 University; Monique Heddebaut, Historian; Marie-Christine Hubert, shifting testimony of Simon Srebnik, Historian and Archivist; Théophile Leroy, Agrégé who survived the Sonderkommando History Teacher. at the Chelmno camp. In partnership with the association Memorial of France’s Nomads. 6,114 Curator: Sophie Nagiscarde visitors (between January and February 2019) 6 7 80,000 visitors Rwanda 1994, Partnership agreement our Story? signed in Rwanda April 4 – January 5, 2019 The Shoah Memorial signed a scientific In Rwanda, from April to July 1994, and cultural partnership agreement the XXth century ended with one last with the National Commission for the 8,529 genocide, one more: that of the Tutsi. Fight Against Genocide and Ejo Hacu Men, women and children were tracked (literary residence for the survivors participants down and murdered, all part of a of the genocide) with plans to share 2019 highlights frighteningly efficient extermination archives and trainings for professionals, 108 enterprise. Close to one million victims as well as with Ibuka Rwanda. events The 25th commemoration of the perished in less than three months. genocide against the Tutsi in Twenty-five years on, a thick veil of Rwanda. Alongside the remembrance

clichés, denial and ignorance still association Ibuka France and the Paris 2019 HIGHLIGHTS weighs heavy on this historical event. City Hall, the Memorial wished to make In the exhibition Rwanda 1994, our Events a key event out of this commemoration: Story?, two distinct spaces showed beside the five exhibitions (at the the extent of the knowledge acquired Alongside the exhibitions Paris and Drancy Memorials, the Paris

2019 HIGHLIGHTS on the genocide against the Tutsi. Far City Hall, the Centre de la mémoire The 2019 event line-up revolved from suggesting some sort of African in Oradour-sur-Glane, and at the around a few main themes, namely exoticism, the latter is rooted in the UN), a cycle at the auditorium and the exhibitions and commemorations: long-held racial ideology derived from a communications campaign by the the end of the cycle dedicated to XIXth-century Europe. This intellectual Memorial resulted in a large number of The Internment of the Nomads in history of racism runs parallel to visitors and significant media coverage. France between 1940 and 1946, The Art another kind of story based on new Market under the Occupation, the sources: through the voice of children The showings of the Serge and Beate 25th commemoration of the genocide (their handwriting and their drawings), Klarsfeld, Fighting for Memory 1968- against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the the genocide is revealed in its most 1978 exhibition in Nice and Montpellier movie screening program Israël brutal realness. The exhibition thus both enjoyed high visitorship. Vues d’ailleurs, and the month of the focused on knowledge through which documentary film as well as premieres, to bridge the gap that too often keeps The exhibition Holocaust and testimonies, commemorations and book us at a distance from this major event of Comics shown at the Kazerne presentations with a strong link to the our recent history. Dossin (Malines) in Belgium was releases of the time. also a resounding success. Scientific committee: Display in the exhibition Rwanda 1994, our Story? Marcel Kabanda, Director of the association Ibuka Media partners of the activities Hélène Dumas, Researcher at the CNRS, © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Colombe Clier. France, and Jacques Fredj, Director of the Shoah at the Edmond J. Safra Auditorium: Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP) Memorial, at the signing of the scientific and Poster for Matzor by Gilberto Tofano At the Edmond J. Safra auditorium, Coordination: cultural partnership agreement with the National upon its release in 1969. The movie various premieres, testimonies Sophie Nagiscarde, Marine Lesage, Shoah Memorial Commission for the Fight Against Genocide and was screened as part of the Israël Vues Graphic and display design: Ejo Hacu, as well as with Ibuka Rwanda. d’ailleurs movie screening program. and commemorations all attracted Estelle Martin © Shoah Memorial. © Israeli Films. a range of audiences.

8 9 First Generations of Screenings Testimonies Commemorations the Shoah Forum Next, the movie and documentary film Among the Memorial’s various th More than 600 people, survivors, screenings, premieres in particular, events, testimonies are particularly 75 anniversary of 27 January, Holocaust resistants, hidden children, Righteous attracted the biggest crowds (La SNCF popular. For instance, Ginette the departure of the Remembrance Day sous l’Occupation with 177 people, Les Kolinka and Elie Buzyn attracted and their descendants, of all transports of the year 1944 generations, came from all over France Invisibles with 140 people, La Dernière 192 et 180 listeners respectively. In 2005, at the initiative of the Council d’entre elles with 154 people, Terezin, and even from abroad to take part Following the commemorations of Europe, the European Ministers of l’imposture nazie with 195 people) in the first Generations of the Shoah Noteworthy held in 2018, 16 ceremonies were Education adopted the declaration with a total of 2,190 spectators in 2019. Forum from February 2 to 4, 2019. organized at the Shoah Memorial in designating the International Day Organized in partnership with the Among friends or family, sometimes For the first time, we dedicated an Paris between January and August of Commemoration in Memory mahJ, the cycle Israël Vues d’ailleurs representing three generations, all were entire day to the fate of homosexuals 2019 in remembrance of the Jews of the Victims of the Holocaust in attracted 500 spectators over three days. concerned in some way with the history under Nazi rule, with 144 people deported from France in 1944. During schools in all member states. of the Holocaust and the duty to pass present, a success that suggests each ceremony, the names of the it on. There were meetings, workshops, Commemorations interest will be high for the exhibition deportees of each transport were On this occasion, the three National conferences, visits, a concert: three scheduled in the years to come. read. These commemorations were Conferences of the Ambassadors of The annual commemorations or beautiful days filled with experience organized in partnership with the Memory were organized from January the ones dedicated to personalities sharing, reflection and reunions. Although not entirely empty, our Foundation for the Memory of the 25 to 28. France and the UN chose attracted large audiences: the homage th auditorium was quieter than expected Shoah and the Association des Fils the 27 of January, which is when

to Simone Veil, the homage to Claude 2019 HIGHLIGHTS based on registrations at the end of the et Filles des déportés juifs de France the the Soviet Army discovered the Cycles Lanzmann, the commemoration of year because of the transport strike. (Association of the Sons and Auschwitz concentration camp, as the Jews deported from Hungary; Alongside the exhibitions, the cycle Daughters of the Deported Jews of the official day of remembrance. the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup, the about the art market attracted 1,340 France, FFDJF). people and was met with great interest. Memorial of the Spanish Jews, etc. Also on this occasion, the Shoah 2019 HIGHLIGHTS The Rwanda cycle brought together 828 Ceremonies were also organized in Memorial coordinated various people, and 202 joined the end of the remembrance of deportees of the commemorative events throughout cycle on the internment of the Nomads. transports that left from Toulouse and the country with the support of the Lyon, with support from Onac-VG. Ministry of the Armed Forces – DPMA, 8 the National Office for Veterans and major annual Victims of War (Onac-VG) and the commemorations Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, as well as, for pedagogical purposes, in partnership with the Œuvre nationale du Bleuet de France and a dozen institutions in charges of 16 sites of remembrance related to the ceremonies persecution, internment, deportation in memory of and extermination of the Jews of France. Jews deported in 1944

The first Generations of the Shoah Forum. Ginette Kolinka’s testimony. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. © Shoah Memorial.

10 11 Yom HaShoah 76th anniversary of the 65th National Day in Hazkarah In Remembrance of Homage to the executees Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance of the On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, the Hazkarah, the ceremony in the Tunis Roundup of the Mont-Valérien day chosen by Israel to commemorate Victims and Heroes Organized in partnership with the remembrance of Holocaust victims This ceremony commemorates the Organized in partnership with the the memory of Holocaust victims Remembrance Committee of the of the Deportation without a grave, took place on and Heroes of the Jewish Resistance Tunis roundup on December 9, 1942. National Office for Veterans and Conseil Représentif des Institutions October 6, 2019 with Dominique It is held in remembrance of the Victims of War (Onac-VG) and the movement during Word War II, an For this 64th National Day in Juives de France (Representative Schnapper, Sociologist, Honorary roundup’s deportees sent to European Association des Fils et Filles des uninterrupted 24-hour-long public Remembrance of the Victims and Council of Jewish Institutions of France, Member of the Constitutional Council extermination camps and the déportés juifs de France (Association reading took place on May 1st, 2019. Heroes of the Deportation, flowers Crif), this ceremony consisted of prayers and President of the Musée d’Art et victims who died in work camps of the Sons and Daughters of the This was done under the aegis of the were laid down in the forecourt by the by Chief Rabbi Olivier Kauffmann, a d’Histoire du Judaïsme (Museum of set up by the Nazis on Tunisian Deported Jews of France, FFDJF), this Foundation for the Memory of the cylinder symbolizing the chimneys of testimony of the uprising recounted Art and History of Judaism, mahJ). soil. Organized with the Société de ceremony marked the 78th anniversary Shoah and in partnership with the the extermination camps. In attendance with music by the Republican Guard l’histoire des Juifs de Tunisie (Jews of the execution of 75 hostages on Mouvement Juif Libéral de France were Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, fanfare and songs in Yiddish by Talila. of Tunisia History Society, SHJT), December 15, 1941. The ceremony was (Liberal Jewish Movement of France, Minister of State for War Veterans and it took place on December 8, 2019 preceded in the morning by a thematic MJLF), the Association des Fils et Memory Geneviève Darrieussecq, Paris Were present Shoah Memorial at the Shoah Memorial in Paris with visit of the Mont-Valérien by the Onac- Filles des déportés juifs de France Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris Deputy President Éric de Rothschild, government representatives, diplomatic VG dedicated to the hostages, and in (Association of the Sons and Mayor in charge of Memory and Ambassador to Israel in France Aliza representatives from Tunisia and the afternoon by a panel discussion at Daughters of the Deported Jews of Veterans Affairs Catherine Vieu-Charier, Bin-Noun, Chargé d’Affaires at the Israel in France, and various religious, the Shoah Memorial auditorium. France, FFDJF), which originated the associations representing former Polish Embassy Dariusz Wisniewski civil and military personalities. event, and the Consistory of Paris. deportees et Shoah Memorial President

and President of the Crif Francis Kalifat. 2019 HIGHLIGHTS Éric de Rothschild. An homage was Of the 76,000 names inscribed on the paid to the Shoah Memorial, then Wall of Names, those of the people to the Memorial to the Martyrs of deported aboard transports 21 to 57 Deportation, and the commemoration were read aloud, as well as the names ended with the reigniting of the 2019 HIGHLIGHTS inscribed on lists 90 and 91. Some 200 flame at the Arc de triomphe. people, former deportees, parents, volunteers, children... took turns reading the names of “those whose only legacy is their names” (Simone Veil), based on the lists derived from the Livre Mémorial de la Déportation (Memorial Book of the Deportation) by Serge Klarsfeld (published by FFDJF).

François Heilbronn, Vice-President of the Shoah Memorial and President of Shoah Memorial President Éric de the Yom HaShoah Commission, during Rothschild during the commemoration the 2019 Yom HaShoah ceremony. of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac.

12 13 Book Fair Republican Titled The Book as a Witness, the third contemplation edition of the Memorial’s Book Fair put even more emphasis on testimonies: In reaction to the proliferation of life stories and tales of survival, essays anti-Semitic incidents in France, and literary works, but also poetry as an President Emmanuel Macron, act of resistance and overcoming of the President of the National Assembly disaster. For three days, the Memorial Richard Ferrand and President of welcomed writers, researchers, the Senate Gérard Larcher shared comedians and musicians who shared in a moment of contemplation on about new publications that contribute February 19, 2019 at the crypt of in a variety of ways to passing on the Shoah Memorial, “a symbolic the memory of the Holocaust. gesture” to “express their solidarity with France’s Jewish community” and “reiterate their commitment to the values of the Republic.” President Galas Éric de Rothschild welcomed them, Michel Lussey, Daniel Goldenberg and Gérard Darmon at a signing of after which they stopped by the Gérard Larcher, Emmanuel Macron and Richard Ferrand share in a moment of contemplation at the crypt.

On October 17, 2019, Paris Mayor Anne 2019 HIGHLIGHTS their books at the Memorial’s bookshop during the Memorial’s Book Fair. Wall of Names and interacted with © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Colombe Clier. Hidalgo and Shoah Memorial President Éric de Rothschild invited close to representatives of the Memorial. 300 people to a fund-raising dinner for the Memorial at the Paris City Hall.

2019 HIGHLIGHTS Raphaël Enthoven was the guest of honor of this evening organized to raise funds for the collection work and preservation of archives, for educational New activities for younger generations and for training programs for teachers. partnership with The Shoah Memorial also organized its the Government annual benefit concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to raise some of On the occasion of the National Week the funds needed for its day-to-day for Education and Actions against operations. The concert took place Racism and Antisemitism, Prime on November 27, 2019, with soprano Minister Édouard Philippe and Minister Hila Baggio and the Jerusalem for Education Jean-Michel Blanquer Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky and signed a new three-year partnership Sergei Bresler on violin, Ori Kam agreement with the Memorial on on viola, and Kyril Zlotnikov on March 18, 2019. This renewed support cello) who played works by Erwin from the Governement will allow the Raphaël Enthoven, guest of honor of the 2019 fund-raising dinner in support of the Memorial. Schulhoff, Leonid Desyatnikov Memorial to ramp up its educational Jean-Michel Blanquer, Édouard Phlippe and Éric de Rothschild sign the new three-year partnership agreement. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. and training programs, especially those geared toward schools.

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High-school students visit the Memorial. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Colombo Clier. 80,000 1,664 and over throughout France 2,966 students went on 66,885 school groups people in groups study trips Citizenship courses for Memory, Citizenship, Youth) of mostly to in Paris and Drancy, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, the Association including Auschwitz Two citizenship courses designed des médecins israélites de France (Association of France’s Israelite for people found guilty of racist or Educational programs For the anti-Semitic acts took place in 2019, Doctors), or as part of the partnership one in Paris in conjunction with with the Union des déportés d’Auschwitz (Union of Auschwitz 2,019 In partnership with the City of the prosecutor’s office for minors, general public Paris, the Shoah Memorial offers the other in Lyon, pursuant to Deportees), with the school districts of in Paris young Parisians between the ages agreements signed with the Paris Paris and with the association Langage of eight and 15 an educational Workshops district court in 2014 and the Lyon de femmes (Women’s Language). program that can take place either appeals court in 2016, respectively. during or after school hours. These Four workshops for children aged nine Convention with the ADF Portait of Simone Veil by Sheina Szlamka to 13 took place during school breaks. For school activities (workshops, lectures, tours, offered to the Ambassadors of Memory. © Shoah Memorial. One explored narration techniques in Journeys of Remembrance screenings, Roads of Remembrance

With this new convention, the HANDING DOWN comic strips and included the making groups or traveling exhibitions) are offered As far as single-day discovery trips to Assemblée des départements of comic strips following a tour of the to Paris public school teachers and Auschwitz-Birkenau are concerned, the de France (Assembly of France’s exhibition The Art Market under the municipal educational staff. With Shoah Memorial organized 10 study Departments, ADF) commits to Activities at the Memorial Study trips Occupation. Throughout the year, support from the Shoah Memorial, and remembrance trips, for groups carrying out actions to prevent several thematic workshop cycles In 2019, 2,966 student groups from educational teams develop programs HANDING DOWN combining members of the Crif, the racism, antisemitism and all other The Shoah Memorial organized 25 were organised for adults, including first-graders to high school seniors based on an array of activities offered ACIP Chasseloup-Laubat, the town of forms of discriminatory acts of study trips from within and from a painting workshop entitled “The visited the Memorial: 2,019 in Paris free-of-charge by the Memorial. Montreuil, the Association Mémoire xenophobia, among secondary school outside Paris, including 14 for schools. Peddler Is a Smuggler”, a writing and 436 in Drancy. Most of the groups Citoyenneté Jeunesse (Association students and educational staff. As part of a program supported by workshop entitled “Take Up your Pens” that came to the Paris Shoah Memorial The Ambassadors the Foundation for the Memory of the and choir workshops entitled “May in took a guided tour (1,917). Almost of Memory Shoah, 1,421 high school students took Song” and “En Enchanting Sunday”, half of the groups came from outside part in eight study trips to Auschwitz. on the theme “Singing Women”. the Paris area. New activities in 2019 Around the International Day of They were organized in partnership included live streamings, with around Commemoration in Remembrance with the regional councils and school Guided tours 25 groups enjoying live interactive of the Victims of the Holocaust districts in the Grand Est, Normandy, testimony streamings during which (see page 11), 85 people took part Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte In Paris, there were 51 Sunday guided students were able to ask questions. in the 3rd National Conference d’Azur, Occitany and Hauts-de-France tours of the Memorial for the general of the Ambassadors of Memory regions. As part of a partnership with public as well as 49 group tours for Roads of Remembrance from January 25 to 28, 2019. This the Île-de-France region, high school the exhibition The Art Market under edition paid tribute to Simone Veil, students and apprentices took part in the Occupation (between April and The Shoah Memorial organizes with the creation of a collective four single-day study trips. Lastly, at October 2019), 59 for the exhibition guided tours of sites in the Paris photographic mural, the development the request of schools in Paris and the Rwanda 1994, our Story?, and 21 for At the signing of the agreement with the ADF (from left to right): President of the Hauts-de-Seine region with connections to the history by the 2017 Ambassadors of a path Paris region, the Memorial organised the exhibition Rwanda 1994: the Departmental Council Patrick Devedjian, President of the ADF and President of the Charente-Maritime and memory of the Holocaust as of remembrance in Paris around her two study trips to Auschwitz for Departmental Council Dominique Bussereau, President of the Shoah Memorial Éric de Rothschild, and Genocide against the Tutsi. These President of the Seine-et-Marne Departmental Council Patrick Septiers. part of partnerships with the Île-de- life, and the closing ceremony of schoolchildren. In all, 1,664 students 129 guided tours were all free. © Shoah Memorial. France region (eight itineraries). the conference at the Pantheon. took part in study trips to Auschwitz.

18 19 Training

Participants at the 4th Summer University program of the Shoah Memorial in 2019, in Toulouse, during the guided tour of the Women in Resistance exhibition. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Studio Le Carré. 7,353 professionals were trained, 893 including 5,591 police cadets teachers throughout France For teachers in France For specific Open House Secondary schools Study trips publics Two open-house days introduced As part of partnerships with school In 2019, 400 teachers from 10 school teachers to the Shoah Memorial’s districts or teacher training colleges, districts took part in 10 trips to Poland Each year, the Shoah Memorial offers educational activities: 3,911 secondary school teachers organized by the Shoah Memorial and specific training courses for a wide September 25 at the Paris Shoah took courses organized by the supported by the Foundation for the range of professionals, including Signing of the convention with the Paris Professional Training School for the Bars of

journalists, home-care aids, social TRAINING Memorial (50 participants) and Memorial in 28 school districts. Memory of the Shoah. From March 19 the Court of Appeals with (from left to right): Deputy President of the Paris School for October 3 at the Drancy Shoah to 24, 20 teachers from the Grenoble workers, guides, counselors, heads of Lawyers Emmanuelle Hoffman; Director of the Shoah Memorial Jacques Fredj; President Memorial (20 participants). In addition, five university programs school district traveled to Berlin. anti-racist organizations and, in the of the Paris Bar Marie-Aimée Peyron; and Vice-President of the Paris Bar Basile Ader. © Shoah Memorial. TRAINING were held in 2019: in Paris from July 7 to context of a partnership with the Paris Prefecture of Police, police officers. Citizenship training day 12 (105 participants), in Toulouse from Lastly, as part of a partnership July 8 to 12 (101 participants), in Poland with the Île-de-France region, a In 2019, 1,864 people attended 50 In partnership with the Île-de-France from August 18 to 25 (40 participants), training trip was organized for 40 trainings including 120 gendarmerie Regional Council, the Shoah Memorial in Israel from October 26 to November teachers from January 19 to 21. officers, 893 police cadets and 1,300 offered teachers, supervisory staff and 2 (30 participants), and in Berlin from people representing various groups: principals of Île-de-France schools two October 20 to 26 (30 participants). students, activity leaders, educators, days of training, one for adults and mediators, librarians, social workers. one for minors, as part of a program to develop actions to promote good The Shoah Memorial also signed a citizenship and fight discrimination. convention with the École de formation professionnelle des barreaux de la cour Primary schools d’appel de Paris (the Paris Professional Training School for the Bars of the In 2019, the Memorial conducted 35 Court of Appeals) to organize trainings training courses for teachers. In all, and tours of the Memorial. Present at 1,680 primary school teachers took a the signing were President of the Paris course, including 241 as part of the core Bar Marie-Aimée Peyron, Vice-President program at teacher training colleges of the Paris Bar Basile Ader and Guided tour of the Shoah Memorial during the training seminar in Paris, Créteil, Montpellier, Nice, Summer university program for teachers in Paris. Deputy President of the Paris School for magistrates on judiciary handling of hate speech and crimes. Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse and Nantes. © Shoah Memorial. for Lawyers Emmanuelle Hoffman. © Shoah Memorial.

22 23 Collecting and preserving

The digitalized archives of the Nuremberg trial were officially handed over to the Shoah Memorial on October 10, 2019, in the presence of Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet and Judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague His Excellency Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Michel Isaac. Acquisitions in 2019 Classifying Preserving and Historical discovery of a and cataloguing communicating one-of-a-kind letter

The implementation of our archives We have digitalized 101,933 pages While conducting research around management software (Mnesys) worth of archive documents in letters written at Birkenau, Shoah has considerably reshaped how we order to preserve them. Twenty- Memorial Head Archivist Karen Taïeb access our collections catalogue. six usage contracts were outlined made a historical discovery that led to 1,698,989 15,772 The inventories and descriptive for the procurement of documents the identification of the author of the pages worth of documents images entries of individual documents meant to illustrate publications, only French-language testimony from newly received are now automatically exhibitions and educational projects. a member of the Sonderkommando in added to the database. Birkenau. Thus, out of the horror of the camps, an exceptional testimony In all, 616 collection files are catalogued was uncovered and passed on to the and described in 65,716 entries; 3,600 Shoah Memorial by the family of the 503 shelf marks have digital visuals author, Hersz Strasfogel, who had been 9,715 linked to the entries. Users can now deported via transport 49. films books and publications access 490,901 descriptive entries via the filing platform, or 22,000 COLLECTING AND PRESERVING additional entries compared to 2018.

including the Mariette Job and The archives Francine Christophe collections, and the Muestros Dezaparesidos and Convoi 77 associations. Acquisitions COLLECTING AND PRESERVING COLLECTING In 2019, the Memorial acquired We also made purchases such 1,698,989 pages of documents, as papers related to Pierre 45 drawings, 6,418 personal documents, Masse and his family. including 2,679 original pieces, and 56 objects. Compared to the The Memorial has also acquired previous year, more documents 533,818 documents in digital formats. were collected but from less These acquisitions had to do with people (261 versus 285 in 2018). the justice collections kept at the Archives Nationales de France, at the In December 2019, Beate and Service historique de la Défense and Serge Klarsfeld donated 1,200 at the archives of Military Justice. boxes of archives for a total of 144ml. These archives make for a Also in 2019, the Memorial completed rich addition to the first collection the digitalization process for the donated in the early 1990s. 250,000 pages of documents and The sole French-language testimony left behind by 1,942 phonograph records bearing a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau, this The 1,200 boxes of archives added to the Family correspondence from letter was penned by Hersz Strasfogel, as identified We have received new donations recordings of the international Beate and Serge Klarsfeld collection in 2019. the Pierre Masse collection. by Karen Taïeb, Head Archivist at the Shoah Memorial. for existing archive collections, military trials of Nuremberg. © Shoah Memorial. © Shoah Memorial. © Shoah Memorial / Muntlak collection.

26 27 The photo to update the information. Extensive Acquisitions The reading research added to then-available data library and allowed us to expand on and In 2019, the library acquired 9,715 works, room make corrections to many biographies. mainly in French, English and German. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING Selected corpuses were given special Acquisitions Sabatino, Germaine Schinazi and their nine children near Bordeaux in Mérignac in 1937. During attention, such as those of survivors. the war, Sabatino, then a doctor, is denied the right to work because he is Jewish. He is arrested in We welcomed 5,528 readers in 2019. 15,772 images were acquired in 1942 and sent to the Mérignac camp, then to Drancy before being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Folders containing the Wall of Names Resources and cataloguing Based on available information, the 2019, including 309 posters. Of for good, by transport 64 on December 7, 1943. His family escapes to safety near Nantes. engraving forms were digitalized. © Shoah Memorial / Moïse Schinazi collection. reading room attracts predominantly Today, 1,402 press reviews and these documents, 8,083 came researchers, largely French, as well as clippings as well as a thematic index from private collections, 600 from Since the digitalization of the folders, American and German nationals. A are accessible by request in the reading organizations’ collections, 371 from all new documents are systematically total of 7,520 works were consulted, room. They cover subjects relating to public and privte archives, particularly digitalized and saved in virtual

COLLECTING AND PRESERVING COLLECTING mostly monographs (87%). Lastly, the Shoah Memorial and its activities, archives from the international folders. This collection has now been there was a sharp rise in consultation the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, shows, military trial of Nuremberg. seen 103,149 times. The 140 boxes of digital archives, which now make the arts, publications dealing with the containing the original documents are up 63% of external archive loans. Holocaust and related topics. In 2019, The private acquisitions were made stocked by our archiving supplier. the work carried out by the Sudoc to through the Shoah Memorial’s walk- update the library’s newspapers and in collection service available on Launch of the periodicals inventory continued as did Tuesday afternoon (5,494 photos) The library the completion of several catalogues, and during national and international including inventories of university collection drives that took place in Wall of Names’ works (526 documents), typewritten Marseille, Geneva, Vancouver and Preservation and manuscripts (249 documents), pull- NewYork (2,589 photos and 10 films). renovation communication outs (416 documents) and wartime narratives and testimonials from the Noteworthy acquisitions were The renovation of the Wall of Names In 2019, the library got to restoring 1940s and 1950s and digitalized by made in 2019: the Hashomer required the participation of the and rebinding publications the library (362 ouvrages). Indicative Hatsair photo album 1040-1960 archives department, both the full-time that needed it. It also dedicated bibliographies of works and articles (500 photos), a photo album from the team and volunteers. The renovation time to information-sharing and kept in the library were put together antibolchevik exhibition in Paris in Photo acquired by the Memorial showing a group of Jewish women and men at the Biala Podlaska ghetto, working there as forced labor, as work site had a considerable impact on documentation activities in line on various themes. Additionally, 965 1941 (25 photos) and an album from they exit the German factories located around the ghetto. Poland, 1941. the database, notably due to the need with the institution’s happenings. entries were added to the catalogue. a DP camp in Austria (35 photos). © Shoah Memorial.

28 29 Classifying The photo album Europe Marching against Bolchevism: antibolchevik The and cataloguing and anti-Semitic exhibition shown in Paris at the Wagram room, In all, the photo library catalogued avenue de Wagram, in March 1942. audiovisual 6,876 new entries including 3,144 for the © Shoah Memorial. archives center The bookshop photograph collection, 223 historical 400 posters, 1,956 cinema-related On site, the bookshop offers around COLLECTING AND PRESERVING documents, 916 films and 213 audio people visited Acquisitions the audiovisual 15,000 works on the history of the files. As for the “Face to a Name” project, archives centre Holocaust and other genocides, the photo library received 730 new The rights of 503 films were and thousands of works are photographs thanks to drives carried acquired in 2019. available for purchase online. out among families in Paris and various regions. As of now, the photo library Cataloguing has 20,375 photos of those who were deported or shot in camps, including and digitalizing

COLLECTING AND PRESERVING COLLECTING 1,379 photos of survivors and 4,816 photos of children. The photo library 12,396 film entries and 1,183 audio has also made available online an recordings are currently available exclusive collection on the ghettos in the new documentation system. (240 photos) and more than 1,640 new All the documents, whether bought, photos given by the OSE association. derived from TV recordings, donations or long-term loans, have been catalogued. The catalogue entries are Preservation more detailed than before, especially and communication for TV recordings. 2,264 movie files were digitalized in 2019. The movie In 2019, 7,362 images were digitalized and audio browsing stations were (consisting of 591 posters, 2,264 images transferred to the audiovisual archives from the cinema collection, 196 lobby center. From there, one can access cards and 4,450 photographs). films for which we have acquired rights The photo library helped illustrate as well as thousands of testimonies 197 external projects, including A group of Jewish children evacuated from the Rivesaltes camp, thanks to the OSE’s including the Visual Historical work, en route to the Moissac home helmed by the EEIF in 1942. Two children have been articles (15), exhibitions (34), identified on the photo: David Korn on the right and Sam Gryspan on the left. Archives (Spielberg Foundation) films (32), and publications (85). © Shoah Memorial / OSE collection. collection and Yale Fortunoff. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Colombe Clier.

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Bernard Eizkman posing with the members of the family who took him in, the Dubois, at their Bressels farmhouse in the county of Neuchâtel. Switzerland, October 1944. Photo on the cover of issue 210 of the “Historical Review of the Shoah” periodical entitled “Switzerland Facing the Genocide: New Research and Perspectives”, published by the Shoah Memorial. October 2019. © Shoah Memorial / Yoram Degani collection. 10,200 followers on Online 27,155 Twitter Publications Likes on Facebook

Revue d’histoire de la Shoah 3,200 followers on In 2019, a new issue of the Revue Instagram d’histoire de la Shoah was published. Issue 210, Switzerland Facing the Genocide: New Research and Perspectives, explores, among other things, the role of this country in the Holocaust, its asylum policy for

persecuted Jews, and the true role of PUBLISHING institutional and individual actors, both Swiss and foreign, in the genocide. 2019 were the 25th commemoration

PUBLISHING of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (316,118 views), Francine Christophe’s testimony (88,820 views) and Simone Veil’s testimony (57,471 views). The Memorial’s communities A micro-site is created for each exhibition at on Facebook and Twitter are still the Memorial, allowing growing, with 27,155 page Likes and visitors to explore key 10,200 subscribers respectively. Lastly, themes over the entire Co-publication course of each exhibition. after its third year on Instagram, the Calmann-Lévy © Shoah Memorial. Memorial now has 3,200 subscribers. Targeted advertising campaigns Calmann-Lévy and the Shoah Memorial have helped expand the communities co-published two books: Michal on Facebook and Instagram. Hausser-Gans’ Treblinka, 1942-1943, Une The micro-sites Social media usine à produire des morts juifs dans la Newsletters forêt polonaise (“Treblinka, 1942-1943, Two exhibition micro-sites were created The Memorial is active on Facebook, A Factory for the Production of Dead in 2019: one for The Art Market under the Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Its In 2019, the Memorial sent out 60 Jews in the Polish Forest”), and Willy Occupation, which received 13,408 visits, YouTube channel has 6,470 subscribers e-mailings to its various contact lists. Cohn’s Nul droit, nulle part, Journal de and one for the 25th commemoration with an average viewing time of The French newsletter now reaches Breslau 1933-1941 (“No Right, Anywhere, of the genocide against the Tutsi 4 minutes and 3 seconds (1,190,185 video 11,978 people and the teachers’ Journal from Breslau 1933-1941”). in Rwanda (1,272 visits). views); the most watched videos in newsletter has 11,288 recipients.

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Educational conferences for 45 Bosnian, Serb, Croatian and Macedonian educators in Belgrade in 2019. © Shoah Memorial. School workshops

For the past three years, the Memorial has developped workshops to be run in Preview of the 31,684 schools. Led by the Memorial’s teams, movie J’accuse these workshops touch on different Sharing expertise with visitors topics: history, philosophy, moral and A preview of Roman Polanski’s J’accuse civic education as well as literature and places of remembrance took place on November 11, 2019 at the arts. Offered by most school districts the Publicis Cinéma on the Champs- and supported by Dilcrah, this initiative The Shoah Memorial continued to Élysées with the director in attendance. by the Memorial has resulted in a back the activities of institutions in total of 530 workshops throughout the charge of places of remembrance in France, as a sitting entity of governing The Commission of Former 103 country in 2019 (versus 446 in 2018). OFF-SITE Inauguration of the exhibition Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: or scientific bodies of the Place of Jewish Volunteer Fighters venues hosted the Remembrance of Chambon-sur-Lignon, Shoah Memorial’s Fighters for Memory 1968-1978 in Montpellier on November 28, 2019. OFF-SITE © Shoah Memorial. The southern of Jules Isaac Center in Clermont- The Shoah Memorial’s Commission traveling exhibitions in France and abroad regional branch Ferrand, of the National Memorial of the of Former Jewish Volunteer Fighters Montluc Prison, of the Camp des Milles continued its mission, through Created in 2008, the Memorial’s Foundation, of the Maison d’Izieu, of the numerous activities on the premises Olympic Games in Europe at War (1936- presented on roll-up panels, Rwanda Toulouse-based southern branch relays Resistance and Deportation Museum in of Rue du Renard (Yiddish language, In France 1948) and High School Vision 2019. 1994: the Genocide against the Tutsi is its activities to the general public and Besançon and of the Amicale du camp outings in Paris, choir, stained- an adaptation of the exhibition shown offers various activities to schools de Gurs. glass window making, painting and and abroad For the fourth year running, the at the Drancy Shoah Memorial. including educational workshops, film computer science). Memorial put together a traveling screenings/panel discussions, traveling The Memorial also acts as an advisor exhibition, 1940: Becoming a Resistant, The traveling exhibition Beate exhibitions, teacher trainings and a for the synagogue of Lens, with the In addition, the traditional Traveling exhibitions in line with the program of the and Serge Klarsfeld: Fighters for university program for secondary creation of an education and historical commemorative ceremony in Concours national de la Résistance et Memory 1968-1978 was adapted school teachers. space dedicated to the history and remembrance of the volunteers at the In 2019, 103 venues in France hosted the de la Déportation (National Resistance to be shown at the town hall of persecution of the Jews of Lens. Bagneux cemetery in Paris took place Shoah Memorial’s traveling exhibitions and Deportation Contest). Demand Lyon’s 3rd arrondissement and Strengthened by its outreach to on October 13, 2019 under the patronage including cultural centres, town halls, keeps growing year on year. for the Montpellier city hall. grassroots partners (school districts, The Memorial supports the creation of Minister of State to the Ministry of media libraries and schools (94). boards of education, local authorities of two new museographic and Armed Forces Geneviève Darrieussecq The most sought-after exhibitions As part of the commemorations Three new educational booklets were and organizations), the southern branch remembrance tools in the former and with many personalities in for schools were Repressions and organized at the UN in Paris on the created for the following exhibitions: backs and participates in educational Pithiviers station, in partnership with attendance. As part of the 80th Deportations in France and in Europe, occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda 1994: the Genocide against activities in schools, trains and supports SNCF, and on the site of the former anniversary of the start of World War II, 1939-1945 (21 secondary schools and genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Tutsi; From the Discovery of the Ambassadors of Memory, and organizes Gurs internment camp, alongside local the format of the ceremony was revised high schools in and outside of Île- the Memorial created a new traveling Camps to the Return of the Deportees; Roads of Remembrance, film screenings authorities and the Government, as well with greater emphasis on transmission de-France), Sports, Athletes and the exhibition in partnership with Ibuka; and 1940: Becoming a Resistant. and commemorations. as German and Spanish authorities. and younger generations.

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Program: Starting with the Holocaust

Launched in 2015, this program seeks to build dialogue between countries The exhibition Rwanda: Memory of a Genocide on the railings of the Paris City Hall. that have conflicting memories or © Shoah Memorial. face common issues within the same geographical area. The idea is for them to step back from their own national history, compare perspectives and take First educational conference between Albanians, Serbs and a scientific approach to sensitive issues North Macedonians, from March 26 to 28, 2019 in Skopje. 15,000 OFF-SITE visitors by drawing upon the shared European © Shoah Memorial. heritage that is the Holocaust.

OFF-SITE Rwanda: Memory of a Genocide Teachers from countries dealing April 1 – May 3, 2019 with memorial conflicts are thus brought together to reflect Inauguration of Place Pierre Kauffmann in Paris’ th4 arrondissement, posthumously named after the former resistant, Director of Crif and Secretary General of the Shoah Memorial. The City of Paris partnered Ibuka on their shared history. © Shoah Memorial. France and the Shoah Memorial to commemorate the 25th anniversary This unprecedented program grows of the genocide against the Tutsi in from strength to strength. A new Hommage to Rwanda, in the spirit of solidarity and dialogue has been initiated between through remembrance work and a North Macedonia, Albania and Serbia. Pierre Kauffmann This emotional moment unfolded in willingness to pass this chapter of In all, the Memorial organized five the presence of his widow, Claude history on to younger generations. bilateral talks in 2019 (Spain-Portugal, The Paris City Hall and the Shoah Kauffmann, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, This exhibition, shown on the City Croatia-Bosnia-Serbia, Italy-Croatia- Memorial have inaugurated the Deputy In-Charge of International Hall railings, was a reminder of the Slovenia, Albania-Serbia, North th Place Pierre Kauffmann in the 4 Relations and Francophonie Patrick history of the last genocide of the Macedonia-Greece) with a total of 250 arrondissement, behind the Shoah Klugman, Shoah Memorial President XXth century through 24 portraits of teachers taking part. Memorial, on the corner of Rue du Pont- Éric de Rothschild, Mayor of Paris’ survivors captured by journalist and Louis-Philippe and Quai de l’Hôtel-de- 4th arrondissement Ariel Weil, and photographer Michel Bührer in 1995 In January 2019, the national Ville. Pierre Kauffmann, who passed former Police Commissioner and close and 1996. coordinators network met for the first away seven years ago, is a former friend Michel Delpuech, as well as time in Belgrade in order to strengthen resistant, Director of Crif and Secretary Photographs: Michel Bührer Second educational conference in numerous officials and representatives Coordination and copywriting: Sophie Nagiscarde synergies, share know-how and enhance Lisbon, on April 25 and 26, 2019. General of the Shoah Memorial. of associations. Graphic design: ÉricandMarie the quality of the trainings. © Shoah Memorial.

40 41 2,100 26 11 teachers trained through conferences in countries abroad

Program: comparing in took part in a session on site at the Once again this year, the Emilia- helps a group of 40 survivors of the Shoah Memorial. The Memorial still Romagna region’s legislative assembly genocide, will receive support from order to better distinguish works alongside the Portuguese supported the Italian university the Memorial in organizing “literary Ministry of Education on its on-going program in Paris and facilitated residences” to facilitate the collection The ambition of this program training policy for teachers (trainings the circulation of the Memorial’s of written testimonies from its supported by the German Ministry of in Loulé and Vilar Formoso). exhibitions. This institution, with the members. Following the strengthening Foreign Affairs is to pass on to history, Institutes for the History of Resistance of these relations, a training session law and political sciences students Traveling exhibitions in Italy network and educational was carried out for the first time on the fundamentals of the history of authorities, had a key role in the the history of the Holocaust and genocides and mass atrocity crimes. In Memorial’s activities in the peninsula. the genocide against the Tutsi, for 2019, universities in Milan (Faculty of Three overseas venues held exhibitions by the Memorial. The exhibition members of the CNLG, in Kigali from History), Prague (Faculty of Pedagogy) Signing of the convention at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw on January 18, 2019. Holocaust and Comics was shown Lastly, together with the Memorial, the December 16 to 19 for 50 people. OFF-SITE and Panteion-Athens brought together Doctrine and Leadership Teaching © Shoah Memorial. 175 students for two-day modules in Malines (Belgium), Hélène Berr, a Stolen Life in Clermont, California Centre (CDEC) and the TOLI OFF-SITE focused on the Holocaust, with the Foundation organized a training Conventions addition of regional and international (United-States), Filming the Camp: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George session in Ferrara for 50 teachers. issues to do with mass atrocity crimes. In January 2019, the Shoah Memorial Stevens, from Hollywood to Nuremberg Both local historians and European and the Jewish Historical Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona (United-States). experts were called upon to participate. Rwanda: framework in Warsaw signed a cooperation agreement with CNLG agreement focused on trainings and Italy: partnerships documentation. A similar agreement Teacher trainings in The Shoah Memorial reached a was signed with the POLIN Museum various countries Our relation with the Italian Ministry framework agreement with with the of the History of Polish Jews including of Education, University and Research National Commission for the Fight sharing of best practices between Outside of any specific program, (MIUR) was strengthened, allowing Against Genocide (CNLG) in June pedagogical departments. The these trainings fall under cooperation the funding of two combined regional 2019 in Kigali, in the presence of Paris National Archives of Armenia and agreements between the Memorial conferences for 130 history teachers Mayor Anne Hidalgo. This convention the Shoah Memorial also teamed up and local partners, most often in Sicily and in Sardinia. In 2019, the outlines firstly the digitalization of to create a collection of archives to be Education Ministries or Holocaust- focus was on trainings in neighbouring the CNLG’s archives and the transfer made available to French acdemics focused research centers. In 2019, regions (the small town of Jesi, Sicily of a copy to the Memorial so that it carrying out research on the Armenian 2,100 teachers took part in 26 overseas and Sardinia, to the South of the city may create a resource center on the genocide. Lastly, the CDEC and the training sessions in 11 countries, in of Salerno), seldom visited up to that history of the genocide against the Shoah Memorial in Milan reached a Europe and in Rwanda, including 10 point. The Memorial-MIUR joint Tutsi. The Memorial also reached cooperation agreement for combined sessions in Italy and three in Lviv commission met in Rome in July a similar agreement with the undertakings in Lombardy and On June 3 and 4, 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda, the Shoah Memorial signed three partnership agreements with the (Ukraine), Bucarest and Minsk. Two 2019 in order to define its training survivors’ association Ibuka. Lastly, stronger synergies between their National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide, the association Ibuka Rwanda and the NGO Ejo Hacu. groups of Croat and Serbian teachers strategy for the coming school year. the association Ejo Hacu, which respective archives departments. © Shoah Memorial.

42 43 The Drancy Shoah Memorial

A group of students on a visit at the Drancy Shoah Memorial. © Shoah Memorial / Photo: Florence Brochoire. 34,152 visitors in total

including The documentation 436 center school groups The Drancy Memorial currently houses

a total of 4,282 documents (books and Panel discussion around the documentary periodicals). In 2019, the Memorial film Les Évadés de Drancy with director Temporary acquired more works geared toward Nicolas Lévy-Beff, and Thomas Handschuh, the young, as well as works on France’s grandson of Eugène Handschuh, last exhibition remaining survivor of the tunnel. internment camps, on the Holocaust © Shoah Memorial. THE DRANCY SHOAH MEMORIAL and other genocides. Rwanda 1994: the Genocide against the Tutsi For schools Teacher trainings April 4 – November 2019 Activities 436 groups (versus 403 in 2018) As part of a three-year agreement To contemplate the story and the During the European Heritage Days on memory of the genocide against the visited the Drancy Shoah Memorial signed with Seine-Saint-Denis, the September 22, the public got to discover representing a total of around Memorial offers the department’s Tutsi requires facing the human and Les Évadés de Drancy, a documentary material reality of the massacres. This 11,571 people. They took guided cities free activities, including training THE DRANCY SHOAH MEMORIAL SHOAH THE DRANCY film directed by Nicolas Lévy-Beff, tours (73%) or attended workshops sessions for counselors socio-cultural 2,078 exhibition recounted the genocide in part thanks to the Memorial’s (27%). A little over 60% of the teachers and activity leaders. Other visitors through various objects and audio, audiovisual archives. video and written archives, conveying groups came from Île-de-France. trainings were offered to librarians. Four half-day courses, focused on the reality of a past that is still very In addition, the Drancy Memorial offers much alive in Rwanda, 25 years later. As part of a partnership with Seine- racism, antisemitism, prejudice free guided tours of the institution and Saint-Denis, the department’s middle and genocidal violence, aimed to We worked with the Centre de la Mémoire of the former internment camp every school students were offered two free help activity leaders find the right d’Oradour-sur-Glane to adapt this exhibition to Sunday. This year, 40 such tours took Roads of Remembrance. The first, words to discuss these topics with their space in the same way that we did for the Juger place with audioguides distributed to Eichmann exhibition a few years ago. called “The History of Interned and the young people they work with. discover the permanent exhibition. Deported Jews” included a tour Scientific committee: The Paris-Drancy shuttle was used by of the site of the former camp, the Throughout the year, the Memorial Hélène Dumas, Research Executive at the 622 people. Drancy Shoah Memorial exhibition also organized on-request training CNRS, Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP); Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Historian, and the Bobigny deportation station. courses and tours, especially within the Study Director at EHESS; and Marcel Kabanda, The second, “The History of the Paris Summer University program. Historian, Ibuka France President Coordination: Sophie Nagiscarde Once again this year, we launched an Jews in Seine-Saint-Denis”, explored Inauguration of the exhibition Graphic design: Emmanuel Labard, institutional campaign in October with Jewish life in the department Rwanda 1994 : the Genocide against the Tutsi Coralie Milière, Unit France at the Drancy Shoah Memorial. Space design: David Lebreton, the slogan “Paris-Drancy, 12km, Drancy- during World War II and included © Shoah Memorial / Photo : Charles Tremeli. Mathilde Daguzan, Unit France Auschwitz 1,220km». a tour of the Drancy synagogue.

46 47 Many people and The Shoah Memorial’s Partners The Europe for Citizens Program educational workshops for students, the institutions support the Since 2014, the Shoah Memorial has Memorial signed 11 new agreements The Foundation for the Memory received a multi-year operating subsidy in 2019 with the school districts of Support for Memorial and its mission of the Shoah (FMS) from the European Commission’s Europe the following cities and regions: by contributing their skills, The Foundation for the Memory of for Citizens program, which funds projects · Besançon (October 11) expertise, time or money. the Shoah was set up in 2000 with an focusing on memory, mutual knowledge · Corse (June 28) endowment from the restitution by the · Créteil (May 15) We thank them all warmly. of European citizens and strengthening of the Memorial French State and financial institutions their ties to the European Union. In 2017, · Guadeloupe (January 9) of unclaimed funds from the spoliation the Shoah Memorial received a specific · Limoges (February 5) of France’s Jews during World War II. subsidy for its activities abroad. · Lille (May 27) The foundation is active in six areas: · Nantes (September 19) Orléans-Tours (February 14) historical research, teaching, transmission The Ministry for Armed Forces · Financial Support Witnesses The Scientific Council of memory, solidarity with Holocaust · Reims (May 14) Annette Becker, Danielle Delmaire, Through the National Office for Veterans The Shoah Memorial receives funding Witnesses tirelessly share their survivors, Jewish culture and the fight · Rennes (March 21) Anne Grynberg, Katy Hazan, André Kaspi, and War Victims (ONAC-VG) and Strasbourg (March 1) from the Foundation for the Memory of experiences of this tragic period in history, against anti-Semitism. It is the Shoah · Serge Klarsfeld, Denis Peschanski, the Heritage, Memory and Archives the Shoah, the City of Paris, the Île-de- testifying at the Shoah Memorial or during Memorial’s main source of funding for Renée Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Department (DPMA), the Ministry for France Regional Council, the Île-de- trips to Auschwitz, thus strengthening the all its activities. The FMS launched the the Armed Forces has stood by the The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Yves Ternon. The Institut pédagogique Edmond France’s Department of Cultural Affairs, message passed on to new generations. initiative to build the Drancy Shoah Shoah Memorial since 2010, notably 1 Memorial and provides all of its funding. J. Safra funds the Shoah Memorial’s the Ministry for Culture , the National during commemorations. On January SUPPORT FOR THE MEMORIAL pedagogical activities in line with a Archives, the Ministry for National Boards and commissions 26, 2017, a partnership agreement 2 The Pedagogical partnership agreement signed in 2010. Education , the Ministry for the Armed The City of Paris was signed with the ministry to help Forces-Heritage, Memory and Archives Ex-officio Orientation Commission The Shoah Memorial has received the Shoah Memorial preserve sites of 3 Members Rachid Azzouz, Daniel Bensimhon, Department , the Rothschild Foundation, funding from the City of Paris since remembrance, transmit history, train The Claims Conference Ministry of the Interior, Ministry for Henri Borlant, David Dominé-Cohn, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, the 2002. In May 2017, a three-year teachers and conserve archives. The Claims Conference supports Claims Conference, the Europe for National Education, Ministry for the Elisabeth Farina-Berlioz, Jacques Fredj, agreement was signed to launch a the Shoah Memorial’s international Armed Forces-DPMA, Île-de-France Corinne Glaymann, Christine Guimonnet, activities as well as locating, Citizens program, the Interministerial groundbreaking approach to educational The Ministry for Culture Regional Council, City of Paris. Olivier Lalieu, Anne-Françoise Pasquier, classifying, digitizing and cataloguing Delegation Against Racism, Anti- projects (tours, workshops, exhibitions, In May 2016, the Ministry for Culture

SUPPORT FOR THE MEMORIAL FOR SUPPORT Founding Members Laurent Pejoux, Emmanuelle Pievic, Holocaust documents at the Shoah Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred, the etc.) in Paris schools and recreation appointed a new High Council of The Foundation for the Memory Iannis Roder, Claude Singer, Memorial’s documentation center. January 11 Fund and the SNCF, its main centers focusing on the history and the Archives, whose members serve three- partner company. of the Shoah, represented by: Alice Tajchman. memory of the Holocaust and, more Philippe Allouche, Serge Klarsfeld. year terms. It is made up of qualified broadly, on anti-Semitism, racism, individuals, including the Shoah The SNCF, the Memorial’s Donors The Shoah Memorial, represented by: hate speech and propaganda. main partner company Éric de Rothschild, Anne Sinclair. Memorial’s Director who advises the ministry on issues relating to public and In 2010, the SNCF and the Shoah Thousands of private individuals Public figures: Robert Badinter, DILCRAH Memorial signed a partnership calling support the Shoah Memorial every François Heilbronn, Guillaume Pepy, private archives. On January 18, 2017, an The Interministerial Delegation against agreement was signed to strengthen the on France’s national railway company year with their donations. Hubert Cain. Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT to help the Shoah Memorial develop Association des amis du Memorial, ministry’s cooperation with the Shoah Hatred (DILCRAH) has been under Memorial’s archives and museum. its pedagogical activities and share its represented by: the Prime Minister’s authority since knowledge about the history of the SNCF Théo Hoffenberg, Ivan Levaï. November 2018. To fight racism and anti- The Ministry for National Education during World War II. On May 16, 2017, the Semitism, the Memorial and DILCRAH The Ministry for National Education SNCF signed an agreement to restore signed a partnership agreement in 2015 to is one of the Shoah Memorial’s main within two years the former Pithiviers offer teachers a full range of educational partners. In keeping with agreements train station (from which many Jews were resources they can use, especially during signed with the ministry in 2011 deported) to house classrooms. National Week for Education and Actions and with various school districts against Racism and Antisemitism. 1. Known as the Ministry of Culture and Communication until May 2017. since 2012 to encourage setting up 2. Known as the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research until May 2017. training courses for teachers and 3. Known as the Ministry of Defense–Memory, Heritage and Archives Department (DPMA) until May 2017.

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Handing down Preserving Government Fondation 23% 27% subsidies for the 18% Memory of the Shoah (including Drancy) 47%

Private Teaching - Training donations, 50% gifts 35%

Expenses: €16,951K Revenue: €16,951K

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