Editorial Taking over the mantle of President from Madame Veil is an immense honour for me. Both in all that that she has achieved in the last six years, and her charisma and personality, Simone Veil has left her mark on both conscience and memory and has made certain that noone can forget the unique and extreme character of the Shoah. In 2005, during the official ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it was she who, in the name of all Jews who were deported, invited leaders to join in the struggle against hatred, antisemitism, racism and intolerance. Her voice found an echo all over the world. In 2007 it is thanks to her initiative that France has made a further step on the path of memory: finally the actions of the “Justes” have been recognised by the Republic and study of their deeds is now part of the school curriculum. The Pantheon still echoes with the words of former President Jacques Chirac, speaking out against hate speech and acts of antisemitism and racism which dishonour the glory of today’s France as they did in the past. The values that Simone Veil incarnated in an exemplary way, I will do everything I can to defend and perpetuate. The activities set in motion by Simone Veil, I pledge to continue. Using the significant means which we have at our disposal the pri- mary aim of the Foundation is to continue to help to improve the lives of Shoah survivors whose means are otherwise limited and for whom social institutions can provide help. We will continue to prioritise education, memory and transmission. We will carry on supporting academic research that highlights hitherto unexplored areas. Central to our concern is the transmission and impact of Jewish culture, ignorance of which is at the heart of antisemitism and negationism. Always mindful of the past and concerned about the future, the Foundation will remain vigilant in the face of cur- rent problems. That is at the heart of its mission and, as President, I pledge my commitment to it.
David de Rothschild, President of the Foundation increased. The success of the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris is now confirmed and it has become, both in France and abroad, Maintaining an important reference institution in terms of knowledge, resources and training. Our partnerships with public and private direction national institutions are growing all the time. I would like to thank everyone who contributes to this work, not all of whom necessarily ow can we pay homage to Madame Veil without first thanking use the resources of the Foundation, amongst whom I must Hher for having established and maintained the direction mention the Association of Children of Jews Deported from of the Foundation with her daily vigilance? Since it was created, France and its president Serge Klarsfeld. the Foundation has been conscious of its responsibilities As for our relationships with our partners – these are relationships with regard to the origins of its funds and respectful of the which are based on absolute confidence and I am delighted directives and rules that were fixed when it was established. by the networks of friendship and of skills which every department It has acquired an international dimension and works entirely in the Foundation has built up over the last six years, both in France and abroad. We are still a small team, intent on fulfilling independently and with absolute transparency. Our road map our mission with rigour and passion. Our wealth is in the diversity was and remains quite clear: to increase knowledge; to train of talent and of culture which makes our debates passionate young researchers and teachers; to bring aid to survivors; and our opinions pertinant – Jews, Protestants, Muslims, to safeguard the traces of memory; to develop knowledge Catholics, agnostics, former deportees, sociologists, doctors, of Judaism; to maintain values of equality and brotherhood, rabbis, bankers, writers, graduate students, historians, and, always, to seek excellence. A clear line has emerged: filmmakers, lawyers, philosophers, teachers, French, Israelis, a preference for learning and reflection over the simple duty Canadians, Italians, Germans – having them by our sides is crucial. of memory. To affirm the importance of historical knowledge, I thank them all. Some are leaving: 2007 is a year of change in order to be able to act. Always to refute simplistic analogy, amongst our administrators, our presidents and certain members the banalisation of the Shoah, antisemitism and racism. of our commissions. The Foundation, as everyone knows, initiates To guard against the mixing up of genocides, wars, massacres; new projects. Last year they were announced; not for semantic reasons or in order to compete for status on the this year we see the results. Understanding Judaism? hierarchy of suffering, but because without precise definitions Over 700 public school teachers have taken courses to discover the there can be neither prevention nor resolution of these conflicts. Jewish world in all its guises, We have pursued these objectives over the last six years, an experiment which we will be continuing. The internet site about and today we take pleasure in seeing results. We owe our gratitude Judaism which we set up with the help of France 5 has been live to the women and men who carry out these projects, because since June 2007. Commemorate the history of the Shoah by without them we would be unable to complete our mission. defending the values of justice and fraternity? In the Pantheon, in Thanks to them, knowledge has increased: a new generation the crypt of Great Men of whom the France of yesterday and the of historians has been trained, sites of memory have come into France of today is justly proud, the history of the “Justes” is today being, survivors have been able to benefit from social action, engraved “in the night of the Shoah”. the number of pedagogical initiatives undertaken in partnership with the Ministry for National Education has significantly Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, Director of the Foundation Thanks to you we have reason to hope “Each of you Justes of France to whom we pay homage today is an illustration of the honour of our country which, thanks to you, rediscovered the meaning of fraternité, of justice and of courage. … Faced with the Nazi ideology which sought to wipe the Jewish people from history and to efface all trace of this terrible crime, faced with those who still today deny the facts, France is honoured today to engrave indelibly in stone in the pages of its national history this page of illumination in the darkness of the Shoah.
The Justes of France thought they were simply living through a historical moment. In reality they were writing history. Of all the voices of the war their voices were the ones that were barely heard, hardly a whisper; often we had deliberately to invite them to speak. It is not before time that we hear them finally. It is time to hear them. It is time to tell them of our deep gratitude for what they did.
For those of us who remain haunted by the memory of our loved ones who died in the camps, without graves, for all those who dream of a better world, more just, more fraternal, rid of the poison of antisemitism, racism and hatred, these walls will echo from now on and for all eternity with the echo of your voices, you the Justes of France who give us all reason to hope.”
Simone Veil, speech of 18 January 2007 at the Panthéon The Ceremony Justes of France, you from those dark years: The inauguration an initiative of Jacques Dossiers showed the nation a if extremism is tolerated Sémelin and with at the Pantheon crucial lesson, for then it will flourish and of the Alley the support of the in publications yesterday and for today – sooner or later we pay the Foundation, an On 18th January 2007, of the J“ustes” forschool-aged the refusal to remain price. Faced with international on the Foundation’s indifferent, to be blind. extremism there is only at the Memorial conference on the children initiative and at the Today, more than ever, one possibility: rejection practice of rescue personal request of its of the Shoah All classes, from we must listen to your and intransigence.…/… in situations of president, Simone Veil, CM2 onwards, message: the fight for The Justes made the On 14th June 2006, at the genocide took place the President of the and the libraries tolerance and choice to honour Memorial of the Shoah, at the Centre for République, Jacques of Junior High brotherhood, against brotherhood and “the Alley of the Justes” the Study of History Chirac, honoured the schools, received antisemitism and solidarity. They incarnate was inaugurated, incribed at Sciences-Po. Using memory of the Justes of a special issue discrimination, racism, is the essence of being with the names of 2693 a comparative France. The ceremony, of the magazine a fight that we must keep human – free will. Justes of France, as approach, incorporating which included the Je lis des histoires vraies up. If antisemitism was The freedom to choose recognised by Yad Vashem research undertaken installation of a film by devoted to unleashed between 1930 between good and evil in Jerusalem. The in Rwanda and Agnès Varda, was a the Justes, published and 1940, it is because it according to individual Memorial also hosted an Armenia, the studies reminder of the role of in October 2006 exhibition about their presented offered the Justes, those who was not fought against conscience. In the place by Fleurus Presse; activities. a way to highlight helped to save the lives and condemned where France the issue of le Monde the differences of Jews during the sufficiently vigorously traditionally honours its des Ados dated Conference in rescue situations Occupation. during that period. It was great men and women, 24 January 2007 was in some way tolerated as today the nation pays its at Sciences-Po and the motivations also devoted to a long Extracts from Jacques an point of view. That is respect and shows its of those who tried dossier on the history Chirac’s speech: “You, the lesson we can draw deep esteem for you.” In December 2006, on to help the persecuted. of the Justes.
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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT Education, Ministry President of the Memorial COMMITTEE OF THE of Social Affairs, Work of the Shoah As Mme Simone Veil chose and Solidarity FOUNDATION Paul Schaffer, not to renew her six year (JUNE 2007) mandate a new Executive Members of the Collège Member of the Executive was voted in in Members of the Collège of of representatives of of the Union des Déportés d’Auschwitz February 2007. representatives of public French Jewish institutions bodies Pierre Besnainou, Ady Steg, Monsieur Henri Hajdenberg Jacques Andreani, President of the Fonds President of the Alliance occupied the position of Ambassador of France, Social Juif Unifié (FSJU) Israélite Universelle vice-president of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foundation up until that Roger Cukierman, Members of the Collège date. François Bernard, Honorary President of the of qualified personalities Conseil Représentatif des Conseiller d’Etat, Claire Andrieu, Honorary President: Ministry of Justice Institutions Juives de France Historian Simone Veil Jean-Paul Bodin, Raphaël Esrail, Raphaël Hadas-Lebel, President: Directeur de la mémoire du General Secretary of the Conseiller d’Etat David de Rothschild Patrimoine et des archives, Union des Déportés Ministry of Defense d’Auschwitz Simone Harari, Vice presidents: Producer Serge Klarsfeld, Norbert Engel, Jean-François Guthmann, President of the œuvre de David Kessler, Eric de Rothschild Inspecteur général de l’administration des Affaires Secours aux Enfants (OSE) Conseiller d’Etat, Director of Radio France Culture Treasurer: culturelles, Ministry of Jean Kahn, Jean-François Guthmann Culture and Communication President of the Consistoire Claude Lanzmann, Secretary: Pierre Lubek, Central Israélite de France filmmaker, writer Alice Tajchman Inspecteur général (represented by Zvi Ammar, Samuel Pisar, des finances, Ministry Vice-President) Lawyer Member of the Executive: of the Economy, Finance and Serge Klarsfeld, Claude Lanzmann Employment David de Rothschild, President of the President of Rothschild Pascal Mailhos, Association des Fils et Filles & Cie Préfet, Directeur de la des Déportés Juifs de Modernisation et de l’Action France Territoriale, Ministry of the Richard Prasquier, Interior de l’Outre-Mer et President of the Conseil des Collectivités territoriales Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France Alice Tajchman, (CRIF) Maître de Conférences des Universités, Ministry of Eric de Rothschild,
ADMINISTRATION Administration: Dominique Trimbur: Joelle Sebbah: Director: David Amar: History and research, Accounts Anne-Marie Revcolevschi Solidarity and Memorial education and transmission Régine Socquet: Philippe Weyl: Deputy director, Links History and research, Collection ‘Testimonies of administration and Isabelle de Castelbajac: Memorials, Solidarity the Shoah’ finance: Jewish Culture, Maor Gladys Sroussi: Assistants Jean-Luc Landier Hannah Geissmann: Jewish Culture, Maor Yannick Douyère: Deputy director, Maor programme Marcelle Timsit: Development and projects, Assistant to the Director development and projects: Pierre Marquis: Education and Transmission Philippe Allouche Press and PR Audrey Rouah: Rachel Rimmer: Administration, press and Press and PR PR D E
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suffering of those who once knew hell and who are still suffering today? P It is a point of honour for the Foundation to bring aid to these people, close at hand, specific and suitably adapted. With this in mind the Commission for Solidarity supports programmes throughout France Partnership FSJU/FMS survivors Emergency aid for survivors (Social programme) CASIP-COJASOR Foundation set up by medico-social institutions as well as programmes abroad of the Siege of St Petersburg Joint Distribution Committee that offer emergency help. Listening Specialised Improvement of medical Passerelles services for survivors It was only natural for us to take over from the Claims Conference, geriatric services National project for listening of the Shoah in Lavtia which has reduced its programmes in France. In central and eastern and direction Furnishing sheltered housing for the elderly Joint Distribution Committee FSJU Europe we have set up new programmes in Poland, Latvia and Romania. CASIM (Marseilles) Supplying medicine Listening to Memory and History Elsewhere the Joint Distribution Committee has drawn our attention Edith Kremsdorf Day Centre and prostheses to needy Shoah OSE to the specific difficulties faced by Jewish survivors of the siege OSE survivors in Romania of Leningrad, who were not recognised by the Claims Conference Home help Elio Habib Medical Centre Joint Distribution Committee as Shoah survivors. We thus decided with Madame Simone Veil Development, transfer, expansion Home help for Shoah survivors Home visits for Shoah survivors OSE in Poland that a solidarity fund should be set up to aid these men and women CASIM (Marseille) Joint Distribution Committee who are living for the most part in desperate poverty. Care of Shoah survivors Social support in old-age homes Social support for survivors Israel The situtation of survivors living in Israel beneath the poverty line CASIP-COJASOR Foundation of the Shoah Aid to the Centre for is also worrying. We have already financed several programmes of support Reinforcing the Tikva programme Foundation CASIP-COJASOR Psychological Support, Rothschild Foundation Social support for survivors in Israel, but there remains a large number of survivors, in particular recent Netanya of the Shoah immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who are not taken care AMCHA Emergency aid Elio Habib Medical Centre, OSE of by conventional programmes. Their situation is of particular concern Emergency funds Exceptional aid to the Foundation which intends to deal with the situation as a mission for Shoah survivors Nutritional, for Shoah survivors of solidarity, both in France and abroad. FSJU medical and AMCHA Programme to aid Shoah Richard Prasquier, President of the Solidarity Commission Medical Services psychological aid survivors by using information Complementary health fund technology Financial support for Shoah Eastern Europe Nitzanim LeAtid D E
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Tikva: aid directed specifically towards Shoah President: Serge Klarsfeld survivors living in sheltered accomodation Member of the Commission:
The Old People’s Home Picpus, in Paris, (Rothschild Foundation) accommoda- Tal Bruttmann; François Cavaignac; Gérard Gobitz; tes elderly men and women including a large number of Shoah survivors, who Laurent Gervereau; Olivier Lalieu; Jean-Claude Lescure; suffer from profound trauma. When the FMS was created the idea was born of a Jean Levy; Denis Peschanski; Bernard Reviriego project that would pay more attention to these survivors, taking into account their suffering and their past. From this came the idea of recruiting and trai- Project manager: David Amar ning social workers to work specifically with Shoah survivors. Today there are fourteen of these auxiliaries, who work with 150 survivors living in the Maison Picpus. They visit them and help them with details of daily life, accompany them to workshops and performances. They are there to listen, for suffering can recur Collection “Testimonies of the Shoah”, FMS/éditions Le Manuscrit at any moment, whether in the shower, when eating, or when falling asleep. “This President of the reading committee: Serge Klarsfeld special attention makes all the difference” says Mme Bourdeau, who set up this Member of the reading committee: structure and has coordinated the programme for the last four years. “The auxi- liaries are extremely devoted and motivated, the residents enjoy the relationships Isabelle Choko; Olivier Coquard; Gérard Gobitz; and their families notice the difference”. The IGAS shared this positive conclu- Katy Hazan; Dominique Missika; Denis Peschanski; Paul Schaffer sion when it evaluated the programme at the Foundation’s request. Followed In charge of the mission: Philippe Weyl the laudatory audit report the programme has been extended for 2007 and 2008. The secret diaries D
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Jacob Haggaï R completed. We have restored the Judenrampe at Auschwitz, Productions Théâtr’Hall P where Jews arrived in the camp until May 1944. We have initiated a project Tuviah Friedmann, for a new memorial at Drancy, which was a major holding camp for hunter and Irina Johannes, French Jews before being deported to the East. This memorial, opposite Memories of tomorrow The friends of the Jews guide the camp building, will be unveiled in 2009. On the site of the camp at Multimedia Project Bernard Debord and Cédric Gruat Guillaume Moscovitz Les Milles financial aid from the Foundation means that finally a centre Union des Déportés d’Auschwitz Ethan Productions VLR Productions for history, memory and citizen education – an indispensable resource The Justes A camp where the living was easy The Nuremberg Trial, for the school-aged population of the entire region - will see the light of day. Nicolas Ribowski Cédric Condon the Nazis faced We have also significantly aided the CERCIL since its creation and I am with their crimes, and Frédéric Martin Kilaohm Productions INJAM Productions thrilled by the planned opening in the historic centre of Orléans of a centre DVD The Grynszpan Affair of the history and memory of the internment camps of the Loiret, including Christian Delage Royallieu, final relief before hell Cédric Condon Compagnies des Phares the final vestiges of the internment camp at Beaune-la Rolande. Marc Tavernier Kilaohm Productions et Balise Purple Milk Productions We continue to work closely with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. After having contributed to the financing of the Gallery of Rescue and Resistance in 2005 this year we supported the programme to collect names of victims of the Shoah, with a specific focus on research Tomorrow’s memories into the deportation lists of the Jews of Hungary. In addition to these major projects, the Commission for Memorial Whoever has experienced this will agree: to listen to the testimony of a survivor Links has financed several documentaries and the publication on the occasion of a visit to Auschwitz gives one an entirely different perspec- of survivor testimonies, notably the collection Testimonies of the Shoah, tive of the place that most symbolises the systematic murder of the Jews, a more nuanced understanding of what it was to live in this machine for murder. For this a collection of first-person narratives about the persecution of Jews reason school trips organised by the Foundation and the Memorial of the Shoah in France, with a testimony published every month. as often as possible involve inviting a survivor to accompany the group. But Over the last five years the activities of the Commission for Memorial what will happen when there are no survivors left? The Union of Auschwitz Links have been significant and we have, wherever possible, Deportees thought up an idea to made these words live on through the use of new technology. In future the visitor to Auschwitz-Birkenau will be able to walk created synergies - respecting the memory of those who suffered directly, through the camp with a wireless digital player which will allow him or her to whilst simultaneously laying the foundations for the transmission visualise and listen to survivors talking about the different parts of the camp of that memory for future generations. and to explain what happened in each part. This multimedia tool is going to be put together with several different recordings of survivors in situ and the crea- Serge Klarsfeld, President of the Commission for Memorial Links tion of a three dimensional virtual visit of the camp. The Foundation whole heartedly supports this project. Memorial Day, CERCIL D
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Memorial Stones R P Laying of commemoration plaque at Saint-Privat-des-Prés (Dordogne), Isidore Drabinowski Museum Memory voyages Establishment of a memorial Projects Visit to the death camp Association Familles et Amis des at Auschwitz, FSJU/SPCJ Déportés du Convoi 73 The Internment Camps The March of the Living of the Loiret 2006-2007-2008, Publications Refurbishment of a site of Association La Marche Collection Testimonies memory and history des Vivants France of the Shoah, FMS, Le Manuscrit Mairie d’Orléans, CERCIL The Memorial to the Jews of the Permanent exhibition Yom HaShoah Haut-Rhin Martyrs of the Shoah on hidden children Ceremony of the reading Editions Jérôme Do Bentzinger The children of la Hille of names in Paris, MJLF Mairie de Montagut-Plantaurel Children of the Shoah Ceremonies of remembrance, Jacques Fijalkow, Editions de Paris Refurbishment Toulouse of the Judenrampe Liberal Jewish Community The Jewish combat organisation at Auschwitz-Birkenau of Toulouse France 1940-1945 Georges Loinger, Editions Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau Ceremonies of remembrance, Lyon Autrement Liberal Jewish Community Research of the Rhône-Alpes Black and White birds Amassing the names Communication of all ceremonies Myriam Raz-Zonchein of Shoah victims concerning the Shoah Editions Elka (na 2006-2011 FMS, Memorial of the Shoah I never told him Yad Vashem, Israel I was writing this book Research into mass Meetings Nadine Vasseur, Editions Liana Levi graves of Jewish victims Ceremony Prix de la Mémoire The Jewish Scouts of France in Ukraine 2006, Michel Slitinsky at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne 2006-2008 Programme of meetings Iana Zbar Yahad-in-Unum, Organised on the occasion Reissue on the initiative de Germaine Père Patrick Desbois of International Holocaust Poliakov-Rousso The Collection “Testimonies of the Shoah”
The Collection “Testimonies of the Shoah”, under the aegis of Serge Klarsfeld and project managed by Philippe Weyl, brings together the testimonies of victims and of witnesses to persecutions of the Jews. Most have never before been published, such as the Journal de route by Jean Oppenheimer, written in 1945, just as the camp at Auschwitz had been libe- rated. Whilst waiting to be repatriated to France, Jean Oppenheimer kept a diary in which he described his experience in the camp. The text was saved from oblivion thanks to the FMS. Another testimony written at the time, that of Guy Kohen, Retour d’Auschwitz, has been reissued by the Foundation to make it once more available to the general public. The Collection’s mission is also to highlight unusual experiences such as those of Georges Loinger, one of the major figures of the Jewish resistance, or of Anna Traube, one of those who avoided the round up of the Vel d’Hiv, or of Théodore Woda, who considers himself “lucky”, or that of Jacques Saurel, which illustrates the particular experience of the child prisoner. In 2006 the Collection also published the testimonies of two Polish Jews, Thérèse Malachy-Krol and Moniek Baumzecer. The Collection has inaugurated a series of publications on the camp at Compiègne, which was inaugurated with the publication of the Journal d’un interné by Benjamin Schatzman, and followed in 2006 with the reissue of the book Le camp de la mort lente, by Jean-Jacques Bernard, one of the major works published on Compiègne, which will be followed in 2007 with the publication of other testimonies. Finally it must be noted that a large part of these works have come out of the work done by the OSE on the memories of hidden children. This year the Collection published the memoir of Jenny Masour-Ratner, an important figure in the OSE who set up the service of Family Regrouping. The Collection is published in partnership with Editions Le Manuscrit, who also ensure that the works are available in electronic format as well as in traditional book form. The elec- tronic format ensures the permanence of the testmonies which are archived at the Memo- rial of the Shoah.
2006 in the Collection Retour d’Auschwitz. Souvenirs Journal de route, Aux frontières de l’espoir, by Georges du déporté 174949, by Guy Kohen. 14 mars-9 mai 1945, Loinger, co-authored by Katy Hazan. Le Camp de la mort lente, Compiègne by Jean Oppenheimer. De Drancy à Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945 - Souvenirs rassemblés 1941-1942, by Jean-Jacques Bernard. Mes vingt ans à l’OSE, 1941-1961, d’un enfant déporté, Mille jours de la vie d’un déporté qui a by Jenny Masour-Ratner. by Jacques Saurel. eu de la chance, by Théodore Woda. J’avais promis à ma mère de revenir, Entre les mots, Évadée du Vél’d’Hiv’, by Anna Traube. by Moniek Baumzecer. by Thérèse Malachy-Krol D E
Commission for T R O P P U S
S T C E J O R History P and Research
President: Jacques Andréani
Member of the Commission: Jean-Pierre Azéma; Chantal Bordes-Benayoun; Philippe Chassaigne; Simon Epstein; Michael Marrus; Christian Oppetit; Peter Schöttler; Claude Singer; Annette Wieviorka
Project manager: Dominique Trimbur The Shoah and Aliyah from France D
to Palestine and Israel between E
1936 and 1950 T Brice Vincent R University of Montpellier III O P
Encouraging post- Doctoral and P U
Antisemitism S
doctoral research Occultism, antisemitism S and anti-freemasonry T Post-doctoral C
in France from the second half E into the Shoah of the 19th century to 1939: J the roots of an ideological O Since its creation, the History and Research Commission has supported R grants amalgam P research into the Shoah, in history and other disciplines. The Foundation’s Emmanuel Kreis strategy has remained the same: to encourage graduate students by Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, awarding doctoral and post-doctoral grants; to maintain an international Paris Europe on the eve of Germany’s Middle Eastern policy perspective, unbeatable in its subject area, and to ensure that major Fra n c e the Second World War and antisemitism in the Arab world, advances in historiography are accessible to the the French public. The French Milice and during the Holocaust illustrated by Germany’s relations between 1943 and 1945 2006 was no exception, with an ever-increasing number of applications 1939 – 1944 with Egypt and the PLO between Tal Bruttmann for research grants. The themes of the applications reflect the intense Tikva Fatal-Knaani 1952 and 1979 EHESS, Paris current preoccupation with the Shoah, with a particular focus on the Yad Vashem, Israel Ulrike Becker construction of memory and on the representations associated with Work camps under Vichy: Spoliation of money belonging to University of Hamburg, Germany the “Groups of Foreign Workers” in Jewish victims of the Nazis and The image of the Jew in the memory, as well as the reverberations for the second and third generations. France 1940-1944 held by Swiss banks teaching of history from 1959 to Amongst the research projects which we have encouraged I would like Peter Gaïda the present to mention that of Audrey Kichelewski, a young graduate student working University of Bremen, Germany Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler University of Paris III Amélie Blaustein on the status of Jews in Polish society from 1945 to 1968. The History The French activities University of Montpellier III and Research Commission has also given grants to research on of the rescue committee The negation of the Shoah The International League against (Vaad Aatsala) and of other crimes against antisemitism and the means of combatting it both in Europe before Antisemitism 1928 to 1940 of the orthodox rabbis humanity compared the Second World War (research into the International League against Emmanuel Debono of America Thomas Hochmann EP Paris Antisemitism) and in certain Arab countries today (research in Tunisia). (1939 to 1950) University of Paris I Half of the applications received by the Commission for History and Yaacov Loupo, Israel Action française and the Jews: the Rebuilding Life, Research are from abroad, from researchers both new to the area and development and evolution Home and Community: those with many years of experience. We plan once again to bring together The Shoah and its of a national antisemitism from Holocaust survivors 1899 to 1944 all our researchers for a seminar in 2007, in order to reinforce the consequences in Australia and Israel Laurent Joly international network of young researchers working on the various areas Sharon Kangisser-Cohen University of Paris I The rise of legalised repression? University of Sydney, Australia of the Shoah. If, in the future, research on the Shoah in all its aspects The German repression of the The status of Jews in Polish (history, testimony, trauma study, construction of memory, understanding judiciary in France and occupied Control measures, society from 1945 to 1968 of antisemitism) remains at the heart of university study, we will be glad Western Europe (1940-1944) internment and deportation Audrey Kichelewski to have made our own small contribution. Gaël Eismann of Romany in Italy during University of Paris I Institut d’Histoire du Temps the Second World War Nazi propaganda posters Présent, Paris Jacques Andréani, President of the Commission for History and Research Licia Porcedda 1920-1945 Rovno: Research on a mid-size Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Olivier Lavandon Jewish Community in Eastern Sciences Sociales, Paris University of Caen Antisemitism and anti-Zionism in Giorgos Antoniou Reparations for Nazi Research D Non Governmental Organisations University of Salonika, Victims and Memory Politics E at the United Nations, from the Greece in Postwar Europe: T
programmes R Mexico Conference (1975) to the the examples of France, Between Discrimination Constructing memory O
Durban Conference (2001): the Federal Republic P and Destruction: together – on the sites Research P the influence of Third World Italian Jews during of Germany and Switzerland
of the genocide of the Batutsi U Humanitarism Regula Ludi, the Nazi Occupation S
Laure Coret Nelly Las University of Berne, and the Salo Republic Association Umuco S Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1943-1945 Switzerland T
grants C Jewish return to Poland Zionism, anti-Zionism Iael Nidam-Orvieto The dynamics of identity E
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Katherine Craddy J and Judeophobia in Tunisia and place for Shoah survivors
University of Birmingham, O grant for part-funding Memory and representation in the United States and Israel, United Kingdom R
Omhani Naïja in Italy of antisemitic, 1948-1967 P In the best interests IEP Lyon II fascist and Nazi persecutions from Françoise Ouzan of the child: Family, youth and On racist and antisemitic 1944 to 1967 Centre of French research, identity among postwar French contemporary discourse Paola Bertilotti Jerusalem, Israël The position of the Jews in Polish Jews (1944-1954) Daniella Doron Corinne Stolarski IEP Paris The representation Research stays society from 1945 to 1968 New York University, USA Université Paris VII Jewish sites of memory, of the Holocaust in the Lithuanian Impossible Exile, Audrey Kichelewski or the place of history Psychology and psychopathology press and its influence on public research stay in YIVO at New York, as and Jewish memory University of Paris I of Jewish hidden children Genocides opinion regarding relations part of a seminar in post-Soviet Belarussia who stayed in France after Cartoon representations, between Jews and Lithuanians, Mourning, trauma and and Ukraine Diane Afoumado the Second World War usage and interpretations 1985 – 2000 transmission amongst Jewish child Marion Feldman Patrice Bensimon-Chevalier Businesses in the occupied Gironde of genocides in Armenia, Agnès Tamuleviciute survivors of the Shoah, hidden in University of Paris VIII (1940-1944), restrictions, Reconciliation between the Shoah, Cambodia, University of Paris VIII France during the Occupation, sixty Jews and Poles (sociological Rwanda and ethnic cleansing Irreconcilable truths adaptations, collaborations years on research project) in the former Yugoslavia Merel Boers Sébastien Durand Yoram Mouchenik, Franco-Polish Foundation for new Jonathan Haudot University of Amsterdam, University Michel de Montaigne Hôpital Sainte Anne, France democratic practice, Poland Centre de Recherche sur les the Netherlands Bordeaux III Médiations, Metz “Alone together”. Political, diplomatic and military Comparative classification Nieuwlande, village of rescue of the reception of the Shoah and The mobilisation of the The 1950s: during the Second World War relations between France and Israel Jews in the Federal antisemitic patterns of argument peasant community during Michel Fabreguet during the years after the Shoah Republic of Germany among Muslim juveniles in Europe the Rwandan genocide University of Strasbourg II Frédérique Schillo Jael Geis, Germany Kreuzberg Initiative against from 6th April IEP Paris Antisemitism, Berlin, Germany to 18th July 1994 The memorialized place. Function Spoliation of money belonging to Christians and Jews in the region Emmanuel Viret and importance Jewish victims of the Nazis and OSE Archive and history project IEP Paris of the architecture held by Swiss banks of Angers and the Limousin, 1940- OSE of National Socialist concentration Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler 1944, rescue and civil The networks of the UGIF Construction camps Paris III disobedience in the Western Centre of France for the illustration and under Vichy 1941-1944 Historic Jewish Commissions in Limore Yagil presentation of history Simon Ostermann of memory Europe, 1945-1953 University of Haifa, Israel The historiography Alexandra Klei University of Tours Laura Jockusch Research in Israel and in the United and collective memory University of Cottbus The Jews and the French New York University, USA States on the Eichmann trial: of traumatic’political events Germany Church in the immedate aftermath in twentieth-century Greece: Clandestine Memory Auschwitz Meditation Images, trial, witness figures of the war 1945-1953 Is the Shoah part of the national Ophir Levy Ismaël-Sélim Khaznadar Annette Wieviorka, CNRS Catherine Poujol collective memory? University of Paris III Université de Constantine, Algeria Sylvie Lindeperg - Paris III University of Bruxelles Evidence of Trauma: David Boder Auszug aus dem Lager Publications D and the History of Holocaust (La sortie du Camp) E
Commission for T Testi m ony Jewish Political Studies Review Ludger Schwarte Alan Rosen Jerusalem Center for Public Transcript Verlag, R O
University of Bar Ilan, Israel Affairs, Israel Bielefeld, Germany P P
Collective memory and oblivion: Bibliography of antisemitism Translation of a part U S antisemitism and genocide and the Shoah of the book: On the memory at micro-level. juridicial, Vidal Sassoon International Center of the Shoah in the Jewish world S social and political aspects T for the study of antisemitism, Edited by Françoise Ouzan C
Yale University, USA Israel and Dan Michman E University of Salonika, Greece J Translation into English CNRS Editions O R
Conferences of The Antisemitic Temptation Translation into French P by Michel Wieviorka, of I did not interview the Dead Education and lectures Brill Editions, USA by David P. Boder Editions Tallandier Conference at Sarrebruck on the Reissue: Cévennes, history of the concentration camps land of refuge, 1940-1944 A Jew in German France Janine Doerry Edited by Patrick Cabanel Michel Laffitte University of la Sarre, Germany Les Presses du Languedoc Editions Tallandier and
Rediscovering David Boder Transmission
In 1946 David Boder, an American psychologist originally from Lithuania, came to Europe to visit DP (Displaced Persons) camps. Using a tape recorder he recor- ded Shoah survivors in their own languages, collecting songs as well as personal President: Alice Taj c h m a n histories. For David Boder it was both a way of recording ethnographic traces of languages and dialects that for the most part had all but disappeared, as well Members of the Commission: as an academic record of the traumatic experiences of the victims. Boder didn’t limit himself to the experiences of Jews; he interviewed non-Jews who were also Monique Assouline; Gilles Braun; Raphaël Esrail; Marie-Paule Hervieu; in the DP camps. In 1949 he published the transcripts of eight of these inter- Philippe Joutard; David Kessler; Joël Kotek; Claude Lanzmann; views, under the title I did not interview the dead. Editions Tallandier have deci- Guy Mandon, remplacé fin 2006 par Joelle Dusseau; Dominique Missika; ded to make this available to French speakers, with a preface by Alan Rosen, an expert on Boder. When little time is left to record the last testimonies of the Marie-Claire Ruiz; remplacée fin 2006 par Thomas Morin last survivors, it is interesting to return to the testimonies collected immediately after the war, particularly when, as is the case here, they have been the subject Project manager: Isabelle de Castelbajac of rigorous research and they constitute an essential document for historical, anthropological and psychological research into the Shoah. The Foundation then Dominique Trimbur supported this initiative in 2006 and is also supporting other projects in 2007 around the work of Boder, including a conference in Berlin organised by the Marc Bloch Centre. The paths of memory: Prague, D
Terezin, Auschwitz, Krakow, Berlin E
Lycée Charles François Lebrun, T Coutances R O
Memories of conflict P Under the sign School Trips P Ecole Eréa de Taden, Dinan U S
History of the Jews and the history of antisemitism, discovering the S of the “Justes” T
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Krakow, Collège René Cassin, Erné E
2006 was marked by the preparation for the ceremony to pay homage J to the “Justes” of France at the Pantheon, which I was closely involved with. The Train of memory O Notre Dame de Sion R We made sure that the film by Agnès Varda, about hidden children, P St Jean, Evry would be available for use in schools. We also worked with the publishing The itineraries of the children group Le Monde to produce two special issues about “Les Justes”, of Izieu: a European tragedy one for the magazine Je lis des histoires vraies, for children in CM1-CM2 (10 School Trips “I never cried”: Young European Collège Paul Sixdenier, Jewish victims of the Shoah Hauteville-Lompnes - 11 years), the other for Le Monde des Ados for students in junior high (11- Between history and memory Collège Georges Clemenceau, Memory 13 years). The Ministry of Education supported our collaboration with Association Pour la Paix, Ajaccio Cerizay Lycée Jean Guéhenno, Fougères France 5 to produce a dedicated internet site with resources specifically Nonentola, memory of the Second Tomorrow’s memories Poland, between memory for teachers. Several members of our commission were involved in these World War, the Shoah and the Collège le Devoir, Chalon sur Saône and entry into Europe projects and I wish to thank them for their contributions. resistance Lycée Méditerranée, La Ciotat It seems to me important to underline that the understanding of the role Collège du Bugey, Belley Making links between memory and artistic creativity, on the Paris, capital and site of the “Justes” in the rescue of Jews marks a turning point in the way in Following the traces of Jewish theme of the Second World War of collective memory which the Shoah is taught in schools. We now can show positive examples culture, from exclusion to the Lycée professionnel Gabriel Péri, Collège Pierre Bonnard – SEGPA, Shoah, Lycée du Bugey, Belley Le Cannet to students which they will be able to recognise, and which will encourage Champigny Voyage to Poland them to reflect on the notion of the “Justes” and to consider potential Voyage to Auschwitz Study day at Auschwitz Lycée Albert Camus, Bois- Collège Notre-Dame des Lycée Paul Doumer contemporary ramifications. In addition, since there were Justes all over Colombes Missions, Charenton Le Perreux France, this theme will allow for looking at local history, as demanded Voyage to Auschwitz Voyage to Auschwitz Convoi 62 for Pitchipoï by ministerial directives. ACJM: Action Citoyenne Jeunesse Collège Alain Fournier, Bordeaux Collège George Sand, The Commission for Education and Transmission has also supported Châtellerault et Mémoire, La Varenne Citizenship in its European several artistic and cultural projects, notably this year several concerts Voyage to Poland Prague – Auschwitz – Nuremberg dimension, through the history of Lycée Ch. et A. Dupuy, which enabled the public to discover the works of composers whose work Lycée Jean de la Fontaine, the construction of Europe and its Château-Thierry Le Puy en Velay was censored in the Third Reich. institutions Following the traces of the Day at Auschwitz-Birkenau Collège des quatre Moulins, Brest I would like to end by drawing attention to the increasing number deportees to Mauthausen Lycée Faidherbe, Lille of projects we are supporting outside France and the consequent Voyage to Auschwitz Collège des Tilleuls, Claye-Souilly European memory – broadening of impact of our activities. Association “Mémoire pour la vie Treaties of Union: Pologne: the memory of the citizen, et l’IEN Caen Krakow-Auschwitz Lycée ORT Lyon Lycée Jules Ferry, Coulommiers Alice Tajchman, President of the Commission for Education and Transmission Reflections on crimes against Izieu, site of memory, and Lyon humanity, Lycée Auguste Renoir, From Terezin to Auschwitz Voyage to Rivesaltes, Izieu, Drancy Cagnes-sur-mer Lycée René Descartes, Cournon Lycée français de Madrid Voyage to central Europe History and memory Voyage in memory of the Maison The responsibility to truth and the Europe and democracy Voyage to Rwanda and Israel D
Lycée Robert Schumann, Metz Lycée Paul Painlevé, Oyonnax des enfants at Izieu work of memory – the challenge of Lycée Professionnel Porte des From tragedy to reconstruction E Association Mémoire 2000, Paris the future Alpes, Rumilly Hachomer Hatzaïr T
Voyage to Auschwitz R Rivesaltes, a European tragedy Association Animafac, Paris Lycée Alain Borne, Montélimar Collège André Malraux, Paron The Shoah, history and memory: The responsibility of memory at Voyage to Poland 2006 O seminar voyage to discover how Voyage to Auschwitz Auschwitz Hachomer Hatzaïr P
From the farm at Pouy to P So that we do not forget, we must Lycée Lucien de Hirsch, Paris Lycée polyvalent de Vienne, Saint Auschwitz…, Lycée Victor Duruy, better to understand and teach the Study mission and university U
never forget, Collège Notre Dame Romain-en-Gal S Mont-de-Marsan Shoah, Association Mémoire et Educational voyage to Poland campaign in Rwanda 2006 de la Couldre, Parthenay vigilance des lycéens, Paris Etablissement Georges Leven Paris Memory and transmission – S Sites of memory in France Guides to memory in the Soisson T remember, share, rebuild for the Lycée J. Monnet, Montpellier Voyage to Auschwitz Following the traces of Convoy 73, Educational voyage to Poland region C Lycée Gerard de Nerval, Soissons future, UEJF E Les Amis de l’Aumônerie Israélite J Voyage to Auschwitz Jews deported to Lithuania Collège Lycée Ozar Hatorah, Paris
des Armées O Lycée ORT, Montreuil Familles et Amis des Déportés du Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Educational voyage to Prague Convoi 73 Ecole Aquiba, Strasbourg Theatre R Inter-generational voyage to responsibility of memory P Memories of the Second World The Music Teacher Collège Louise Michel, Paris War, Izieu- Buchenwald Auschwitz The Lycée Condorcet remembers Following the traces of the Shoah: Yaël Hassan Lycée Camille Corot, Morestel Association convoi n°6, Paris Lycée Condorcet, Paris Educational voyage to Poland the Czech Republic and Poland Théâtre des Turbulences Collège et lycée filles Sinaï, Paris Lycée de la Versoie, Thonon les Bains The revolution of the colours Prague, concentration camp, Sylvie Bahuchet, Association for Holocaust Memorial, Berlin Following the traces of the Shoah the Memory of the Jewish An Encounter with the Other Collège-Lycée Heikhal Menahem in Poland children deported from Ivry Sinaï, Paris Lycée Ozar Hatorah, Toulouse A century of industry In March 2007 the pupils of the lycée Moulin Fondu in Noisy-le-Sec, the secon- I will speak in their name Voyage to Auschwitz Marc Dugowson dary school Alliance at Pavillons-sous-Bois and the Maïmonides high school in Guédeon Hausner Etablissement St Louis Blanche de Théâtre du Volcan Bleu Castille, Villemomble Casablanca travelled together to Auschwitz. The purpose was both to explain the Lycée Yabne, Paris Dear Edzia, Dear Children… Shoah and the mechanisms of hatred and intolerance which made it possible, Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Auschwitz, Prague: Centre of the world of Ateliers Marcadet and put into practice the notions of tolerance and fraternity by making it an occa- following the traces of the Shoah Ashkenzai culture sion for young Jews, Christians and Muslims to meet one another. Samia Essa- Lycée Saint Antoine, Phalsbourg Discovery of the camp at Terezin Music and the Ashkenzi world baa, coordinator of the trip, explains: “The students of Moulin Fondu, which is Voyage, Memory and Citizenship: Festival Les voix étouffées ORT, Villiers-le-Bel 95% Muslim, did a significant amount of preparatory work with the Paris Mos- Prague, Krakow, Auschwitz: Amaury du Closel que and the Synagogue de la Victoire, to deal in advance with certain issues, spe- following the traces of the Nazi Poland, site of memory Forum Voix Etouffées genocide Tradition and memory in Poland cifically religious issues, that some of the students had with regard to Judaism Music forbidden under the Third Cité scolaire Erckmann-Chatrian, Lithuania: site of memory and the Shoah. Meeting the students of the lycée Maïmonides in Casablanca was Reich Phalsbourg a very enriching experience because these students, who are both Jewish and Ecole Beth Rivka, Yerres Concert at Aix-en-Provence Muslim, live daily alongside one another in friendship. They were able to show Facing the Other Association for the Austrian our students and those from the Alliance Israélite that their friendships were LEP Moulin Fondu, Noisy-le-sec Training cultural forum stronger than anything that might set them against each other. We also worked Inter-generational voyage to Study seminar on the Oratorio: The voice of memory – on the role of the “Justes” Muslims, in particuliar Sultan Mohammed V who pro- Auschwitz, Lycée Duhamel du concentration camp, the words of deportees tected the Jews of Morocco from Vichy legislation, as well as French Muslims who Monceau, Pithiviers extermination at Auschwitz and AFMD Bas-Rhin crimes against humanity hid Jews. At the end of the trip to Auschwitz, a young Jewish student stood up History, memory and fiction Lyons Chair in Human Rights and told how his family had been saved by a Muslim family, the Bensaïds, who Collège public Marcel Mariotte Audiovisual had hidden his parents in their car and taken them to Normandy. Our students Saint-Siméon de Bressieux Educational workshops on the Disobedience genocides in Mozambique, EEIF were stunned. I think that the trip and the opportunity to meet each other allowed Safeguarding the memory of Patrick Volson, Akela Productions them all to gain a deep mutual respect, a true openness towards each other. It Auschwitz Participation at a seminar at Yad The Nazi Fate was very much a positive experience and we will do it again”. 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PROJECTS SUPPORTED Managing the Foundation’s endowment and ensuring the proper disbursement of its income
Financial At the end of the six year mandate which was entrusted to me in 2001, when the Foundation was created, it is time to draw up a preliminary report on the work of the Financial Commission. As the statutes of the Foundation demand, the Financial Commission occu- pies a central role in the governance of the Foundation. The Commission is Commission charged with the role of defining the politics of how the funds are disbur- sed and of furnishing opinions on the financial viability of large projects undertaken by the Foundation. With regard to the former, the Commission was able to take decisions which have allowed the Foundation to obtain satisfactory financial results. Since 2002 the value of the endowment has increased by on average 8% a year. The management of the endowment has allowed the Foundation to finance without difficulty all the applications for aid proposed by each of the Commissions, as well as the large budget and investment in the running of the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris. President: Daniel Houri The organisation that has been put in place to define the politics of fund allocation and to keep tabs on the results of the management of the funds has thus had positive results. Members of the Commission: The Finance Commission has examined both from investment and budge- Claude-Pierre Brossolette; Pierre Cortesse; tary angles the applications for projects which have received favourable recommendations from the Commissions. The Finance Commission sug- André Levy-Lang; Pierre Lubek; Rémy Schwartz gested a new method of financial analysis of projects. The Commission also instigated an audit of the running of the Foundation, whose conclusions were extremely positive. I am confident that the work accomplished by the Financial Commission under my presidency will be deepened and improved by my successor. The objectives of the Foundation can only be improved by excellence in terms of management.
Daniel Houri, President of the Finance Commission training institutes. and thedirectors ofthemainteacher forschool history inspectors designed, study tripsto Auschwitz have been Inadditiontwo new around France. Auschwitz leavingfromninecities and theorganisationoftrips to the Memorialallaround pro the presentationofexhibitionsfrom notably outsidetheParisregionwith in visitsby schools andresearchers – activities –ase Memorial’s trainingandpedagogical 2006 alsosawanincreaseinthe activities over thenextfew years. of thedirectionMemorial’s scientific advisorsareanindication have beensetup withthehelpofits arc extending thedigitilisationofits enriching and its departments, expanding enlarging itsofferings, nationally andinternationally and diversifying itsactivitiesboth by developing in theMemorial, to maintainthelevel ofpublicinterest thetargetin2006was exceptional, of visitorstotheMemorialwas whenthenumber Following 2005, and teach thehistoryofShoah. transmit whose aimistopreserve, several large-scaleprojectsunderway of theShoahhasbeenabletoget theMemorial support oftheFMS, Thanks tothepermanentfinancial The Memorial of the Shoah ie.Thedifferentprojectsthat hives. videnced b y theincrease , vinces (an increaseof 20%), in othertypesofvisit:school visits institution hasseenadistinct increase with 180,000 individual visitorsin2006as compared fallen offalittle(-20%:150,000 rate ofvisitsb After anexceptionalopeningyearthe 200 learn, fromwhich we canandmust peace, privileging theessential message of theMemorialofShoahis “Justes” By de Jews duringthesecondworld war. women whoriskedtheirlives tosave thus payshomagetothosemenand TheMemorialoftheShoah of Names. meaningful counterparttothe Wall Thisisaprofoundand “Justes”. with theinaugurationof of theredevelopment oftheMemorial, 2006sawthecompletion Finally, Memorial internationally. to increasetheinfluenceof remains much work tobedoneinorder Thisistheareawherethere countries. equivalent institutionsinother has beenbuildingupitscontactswith of theTask Force educationgroupand the Memorialhasbeenpresident ontheinternationallevel, In parallel, to theauditorium (over 70%). (over 100%)andaudiences voting apermanent spacetothe that theiractionsmadeconcrete. 6 i n f n20) However the in 2005). y thegeneralpublichas i g researc u res h students Alley ofthe around 100clas with secondary school age(11-16 years), Themajoritywere of 5 groupsaday[2]. onaverage 720 were school groups, 850 groups(25,000people)ofwhic theMemorialwelcomed In 2006, (compared with5000in2005). brought togetheraround12,000people meetings andbookpresentationshave screenings, Thesedebates, 2005). in "rendezvous" (comparedwith45 the Memorialhasorganised116 Apart fromtheseexhibitions were puttogetherby theMemorial. 9travelling exhibitions organisations, schools andother municipalities, region orincollaborationwithlocal partnership withtheÎle-de-France in Alongsidethis, exhibitions. organising7temporary programming, In 2006theMemorialcontinuedits n2 rp oAshiz School history in 22tripsto Auschwitz. duringtheschool year Finally, watched afilm. them participatedinworkshops and900 whilst1370of tour oftheMemorial, Most ofthesestudentstook a guided 70 groupsplannedonrepeatvisits2007. increasing succes This compared with1000in2005). aged c 0520,3500studentsparticipated 2005-2006, hildren visiting(3000pupils ses ofprimary-sc s explainswhyaround hool h 2 1. Finally in2005). history (400 people doingresearch intotheirfamily modifications willbemade–and750 – asaresultofwhich anumberof concerning the Wall ofNames The familyservicereceived 1912letters Shoah victims. to dowithindemnisationcasesfor as well asdealingwith402dossiers ofwhom2800were researchers, people, The archive service was usedby 3300 compared with850theprevious year). withvisitsby 4300people stabilise, Memorial sawitsvisitornumbers thereadingroomof In 2006, in several seminar-trips. and traineeteachers tookpart of Franceand90teacher trainers inspectors fromallregions in visitsof105%. Internet sitehasseenanincrease theMemorial’s in2005), every day(400 1.5 millionpagesviewed and510visits (compared with90,000 (of whom1883were researchers, . Education Remembrance and Research and Remembrance Education Holocaust on Cooperation Task Force for International E xc luding school holidays , with 185,000visitsin2006 in 2005),
SUPPORT FOR THE SHOAH MEMORIAL Editor: Rachel Rimmer Assisted by Pierre Marquis and Audrey Rouah Design: designers anonymes Copy editor: Agnès Landa Photo credits: The full page visuals are mostly reproduced from the Yahad-in-Unum association (Père Desbois) from the research undertaken in the mass graves in Ukraine (massacres committed by the Einsatzgruppen). Grateful thanks to the photographer Guillaume Ribot for allowing us to reproduce these images in this report. Homage to the Justes Crypt and installation by Agnès Varda © Service Photo de l’Elysée Alléy of the Justes: © Mémorial de la Shoah/CDJC Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah Mass Graves at Drohobych: © Guillaume Ribot Commission for Solidarity Mass Graves at Lisinitchi: © Guillaume Ribot Restaurants du coeur: © Hazon Yeshaya Birthday party at MRG Picpus, Fondation de Rothschild Commission for Memory Links Mass Graves at Novozlatopol: © Guillaume Ribot Simon Gutman at Auschwitz: © Olivier Raffet Tuilerie at les Milles: © Mémorial de la Shoah/CDJC Central Sauna at Auschwitz: © Guillaume Ribot Commission History and Research Mass Graves at Luhyny: © Guillaume Ribot Students from the Collège of Les Carmes: © Collège d’Avon Nuremberg Trial: © USHMM Commission for Education and Transmission Mass Graves at Ivanivka: © Guillaume Ribot School Trip Commission for Jewish Culture Mass Graves at Romanivka: © Guillaume Ribot Neuilly Kindergarden Pentateuque, Allemagne, 1446: © Collection Bibliothèque du Séminaire israélite de France Mémorial de la Shoah school trip: © N. Darbellay