2016 _ annual report Editorial The Memorial to the Unknown Jewish We pursued our cultural activities, Martyr, Europe’s first monument in the hosting After the Holocaust, a major honor of the memory of the six million exhibition on refugees and survivors Jews killed during the Holocaust, was and the displacement of populations at inaugurated rue Geoffroy-l’Asnier, the end of World War II. Another Paris, in 1956. Sixty years later, the exhibition brought to light a virtually Shoah Memorial pursues its role as a unknown genocide, against the Herero beacon of vigilance. It has kept up with and Nama in South-West Africa, at the the times and, in addition to its beginning of the 20th century. historical mandate of preserving, You and your indispensable Éric de Rothschild. commemorating and transmitting the © DR. commitment, donors, the Memorial’s history of the Holocaust, has developed permanent staff and volunteers enable educational and teacher-training our institution to fulfill its task. activities. EDITORIAL Thank you. In January 2016, we signed an agreement with the government to bolster our position as a special Éric de Rothschild partner in matters relating to the fight President of the Shoah Memorial against racism and anti-Semitism; and consolidate knowledge about genocide and the prevention of crimes against humanity in schools. Our activities have increased, both at the Memorial and in schools and cultural institutions, in France and abroad. The bulwark we are building is essential for everybody – here and everywhere else. Over 50,000 young people participated in an educational activity at the Memorial in 2016, a significant rise over the previous year. The year 2016 in figures attendance . 9,782 professionals received training . 5,793 readers in the reading room in France and abroad (8,891 in 2015), (5,003 in 2015) . 212,421 visitors in 2016 including 4,106 teachers from France, (188,077 in Paris and 24,344 in Drancy) 1,407 foreign teachers, . 2,444,840 pages viewed and 1,836 police academy cadets during 780,545 visits . 60,744 people visited our traveling (630,590 in 2015) exhibitions in France and abroad . 6,629 people attended events to the Memorial’s websites in the auditorium (6,920 in 2015) . 2,059 school groups ES (compared to 1,697 in 2015) . 682 visitors to the Multimedia R for a total of 45,000 young people Learning Centre (651 in 2015) GU I N F I 2016 total number of Shoah Memorial visitors AR 227,410 HE YE no. of visitors 24,910 in Drancy 224,970 T 219,000 202,500 in Paris 23,370 in Drancy 201,600 in Paris 17,000 in Drancy 212,421 202,000 in Paris 24,344 in Drancy 188,077 in Paris 205,860 200,249 178,000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2 activities archives visibility . 4 temporary exhibitions: . 15,744 images (15,102 in 2015), . 3,066 mentions 3 at the Paris Shoah Memorial, 282 films (282 in 2015), or dedicated articles in the media and 1 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial 967,547 pages of documents (2,217,728 in 2015) and 3,602 books . 18,952 Facebook likes, . 97 venues hosted traveling and periodicals (1,522 in 2015) 6,000 Twitter followers exhibitions (79 in 2015) were acquired in 2016 . 160,000 folders distributed in the st T . The 1 Shoah Memorial . 163 projects (books, exhibitions, Île-de-France region tourism network HE YE teachers’ conference films, etc.) used photographs . Institutional poster campaign AR from the Memorial’s collections 2016 . 109 teacher training courses on the Paris and Drancy Shoah (227 in 2015) (92 in 2015) Memorials at French railway stations I (platforms and lobbies; 430 locations) N F . 3,531 documents were communicated I . 77 events in the auditorium, from 15 June to 26 July (at the time GU in the reading room (2,315 in 2015) R including two symposia (97 in 2015) of the European soccer football ES championship), and a GPS digital . 7 annual commemorations (8 in 2015) communication system on mobile . 3,694 people (individual visitors, cultural apps schoolchildren, and teachers) . 54 film shoots participated in 32 study and remembrance trips (30 in 2015) . The Shoah Memorial belongs to the leaving from Paris and provincial Network of Places Commemorating France, mostly to Auschwitz the Holocaust in France and the Réseau Marais culture + . 6,500 young people attended 217 school workshops 3 2016 highlights Visitors at the exhibition After the Holocaust: Survivors and Refugees (1944-1947). Mémorial de la Shoah/Sandra Saragoussi. Left: European Temporary EXPOSITION Parliament President DU 27 JANVIER Martin Schulz AU 30 OCTOBRE 2016 at the opening of the exhibition exhibitions After the Holocaust: Survivors and Refugees In 2016, the Memorial held (1944-1947). Mémorial de la four temporary exhibitions, Shoah/Sandra including three at the Paris site. Saragoussi. The first focused on the challenges which survivors and refugees faced when they went Opposite: back home after the Holocaust; Polish survivors the second, on women in the getting off a train RESCAPÉS, RÉFUGIÉS, in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1945. Resistance, and the third on the SURVIVANTS d’un train. descendent polonais - Des survivants 1944-1947 (www.bronx.fr) Yad Vashem/ Bronx ★ th : Arthur Zegart. / Photo Vashem 1945. Yad Nachod, Tchécoslovaquie, 20 century’s first genocide, which Photo: Arthur Zegart. www.memorialdelashoah.org Exhibition poster. occurred in Namibia. #ApresLaShoah All rights reserved. S S T GH LI GH I After the Holocaust: 2016 H Survivors and Refugees (1944-1947) 27 January-20 November 2016 Institutional partners: ORT-France, Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), Fondation Casip-Cojasor, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem Media partners: France Culture, Courrier international, When the camps were opened, (EHESS), Constance Pâris La Croix, Toute l’Histoire, Télérama those who survived tried to find their de Bollardière (EHESS) and Simon Press coverage: 229 mentions et articles Promotional campaign: loved ones, return home, and get back Perego (Institut d’Études Politiques Posters in the Paris Metro: 26 January to 1 February to work amidst the postwar chaos. de Paris). On 28 January, European (250 locations), 31 May to 6 June (200 locations), After the Holocaust used maps, Parliament President Martin Schulz and 13 to 19 September (200 locations) Posters in Marais shop windows: 2,000 locations archival documents, films, and nearly opened the exhibition, which echoed Mupi/Decaux billboards: late January (400 copies) 250 photos, most of them from timely issues, namely the refugee offered free of charge by the City of Paris the Shoah Memorial’s collections, crisis, illustrating one of the Memorial’s Promotional folder (12,000 copies) and bilingual flyer (55,000 copies) distributed in order to trace the various stages main roles: providing keys to a better in all hotels and Île-de-France tourism offices which refugees and survivors from understanding of the past Promotional videos: one trailer and two interviews different backgrounds went through as well as the present. with the curator broadcast on social media Street marketing: late January in the Marais in rebuilding their shattered lives. Number of visitors: 20,000 The curators were: CNRS research Guided tours: 31 for groups director Henry Rousso, Laure Fourtage of adults and schoolchildren Exhibition catalogue (Paris 1 University), Julia Maspero Mini-website 6 The exhibition included a gallery of portraits of over 50 women in the Resistance who, with hundreds of others, fought for justice and freedom. Mémorial de la Shoah/Michel Isaac. 2016 H I GH LI GH T Illustrations of the four “Women in the Resistance” S Women in the Resistance album covers published by Casterman. Volume 1 Amy Johnson, drawing: Pierre Wachs. 8 March-23 October 2016 Volume 2 Sophie Scholl, drawing: Marc Veber. Volume 3 Berty Albrecht, drawing: Ullcer. Volume 4 Mila Racine, drawing: Olivier Frasier. In the framework of the Exhibition poster. All rights reserved. International Women’s Day, this exhibition paid homage to the women who fought against the Femmes enemy in France, in occupied : Olivier Frasier. : Olivier Frasier. résistance Europe, in concentration camps and Mila Racine, dessin – en : Ullcer. Tome 4 Tome : Ullcer. killing centres. Featuring many Institutional partner: Casterman Berty Albrecht, dessin Berty Albrecht, – original documents from archives, Press coverage: : Marc Veber. Tome 3 Tome Veber. : Marc photographs, objects and comic des éditions Casterman. 150 mentions and articles Sophie Scholl, dessin – book plates, and organized in Femmes en résistance Promotional campaign: : Pierre Wachs. Tome 2 Tome Wachs. : Pierre Posters in Marais shop windows: 17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier Amy Johnson, dessin partnership with Casterman, it – Exposition Du 8 mars 75 004 Paris 2,000 locations Illustrations des quatre couvertures des albums couvertures Illustrations des quatre 1 Tome au 30 septembre Métro Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie depicted those women without 2016 Promotional flyer: 5,000 copies whom, as Henri Rol-Tanguy said, www.memorialdelashoah.org Distribution campaign (20,000 postcards) in Paris cultural circuits “half of our work would have been Guided tours: 18 for groups of adults and schoolchildren impossible”. Expo-femmes-40x60-OK.indd 1 29/02/16 17:37 7 A view of the exhibition The 20th Century’s First Genocide: Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa (1904-1908). Mémorial de la Shoah/Michel Isaac. S S th T The 20 Century’s First Genocide: GH Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa (1904-1908) LI GH I 25 November 2016-12 March 2017 2016 H In 2016, the Memorial hosted an Herero women carrying goods as forced laborers. EXPOSITION The colony’s main infrastructure was built unprecedented exhibition dedicated du 25 novembre 2016 au 12 mars 2017 with the use of forced labor.