2018_ Editorial The year 2018 was a rich, dense and hopeful one for the Memorial. Here are • Our educational activities have grown, some of the key highlights: now accounting for nearly 50% of our budget. For several years, the • Attendance rose by over 20%. More Memorial has been a key player in than 282,000 people visited the Paris raising awareness of anti-Semitism Memorial. If the Cercil (Study and and hatred of the other with the Research Centre on the Internment weapons we have at our disposal: Camps of the Loiret Region and the education and history. We do so Jewish Deportation) and our outside- across France, especially in sensitive the-walls activities are taken into areas. account, over 470,000 people visited or were in educational contact with Seventy-six years after its creation, the the Memorial. Memorial is still moving forward to keep pace with the needs of the society EDITORIAL • Three temporary exhibitions were in which it works, while remaining true Éric de Rothschild. highly successful: August Sander, to the mission set out by our founders. © DR. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld and Contemporary Artists and the None of that amazing work would Holocaust. have been possible without our staff, volunteers and donors, whom I thank • Closer ties were forged with the here with all my heart. Let us be Cercil-Vél’d’Hiv Children’s Museum- especially grateful to our great and Memorial, the creation of which dear friends who have the desire and in 1992 was initiated by Hélène courage to testify about the hell they Mouchard Zay, daughter of minister went through. Their testimonies are one Jean Zay, who was brutally murdered of the most effective tools in the fight by the Milice in 1944. After years of against anti-Semitism. work, with help from the municipal government and local authorities Éric de Rothschild in 2011 Ms. Zay, then president, President of the Shoah Memorial succeeded in establishing a museum- memorial in Orléans focusing on the history of the Loiret internment camps. We are honored and delighted that the Cercil has joined the Memorial. 2018 in figures attendance · Over 66,000 people participated in · 8,387 visitors attended events in the activities archives and collections visibility an educational activity offered by the auditorium (8,351 in 2017) · 282,732 visitors to Paris and Drancy Memorial in Paris and Drancy, and · 4 temporary exhibitions opened at the · 38,864 images, 164 films, · 2,051 mentions or articles in the · 400 people used the Multimedia (257,239 in 2017) 85,000 throughout France Paris Shoah Memorial 753,208 pages of documents and media Learning Centre (770 in 2017) 2,678 books and periodicals were · 30,154 to the Cercil · 2,236 school groups were welcomed · 100 venues hosted traveling · 24,473 likes on Facebook, · 7,389 readers came to the reading acquired (1,878 at the Paris Memorial and 407 exhibitions in France and abroad 8,911 Twitter followers, room (5,802 in 2017) · Nearly 156,825 people visited the in Drancy) · 159 projects (books, exhibitions, 2,100 Instagram subscribers traveling exhibitions in France and · 133 teacher training courses: 35 for · 1,366,880 pages were viewed by films, etc.) used photographs from the abroad · 9,491 professionals received training primary and 98 for secondary schools · 230,000 folders distributed in the visitors to the Memorial’s websites Memorial’s collections (9,430 in 2017), including Île-de-France tourist network · Around 313,000 people visited 5,268 teachers throughout France · 92 events in the auditorium · 3,479 documents were made available our sites, bringing the total to (5,008 in 2017) and in the reading room · A multimedia campaign devoted to 2018 IN FIGURES · 8 major commemorations and approximately 470,000 1,860 police academy cadets the Drancy Shoah Memorial using ceremonies in memory of those (2,745 in 2017) 17 the catchphrase “Paris-Drancy, 12 km, deported in 1943 Drancy-Auschwitz 1,220 km” for the first time along metro platforms 2018 IN FIGURES total number of visitors to the Shoah Memorial 282,732 · 34 study trips and journeys of (28,836 Drancy / remembrance from Paris and various · A multimedia campaign for each no. of visitors 253,896 Paris) regions, most to Auschwitz, with 2,868 temporary exhibition 280,000 participants (individuals, students and 257,239 teachers) · 41 film shoots 270,000 (28,305 Drancy / 228,934 Paris) 260,000 · 403 workshops in schools 250,000 227,410 224,970 240,000 (24,910 Drancy / 219,000 (23,370 Drancy / 202,500 Paris) 212,421 230,000 (17,000 Drancy / 201,600 Paris) 202,000 Paris) (24,344 Drancy / 220,000 188,077 Paris) 205,860 210,000 200,249 Activity Report (Shoah Memorial. Printed brochure) No. ISSN 2607-4745 200,000 (Shoah Memorial. Online) No. ISSN 2609-3030 © Shoah Memorial, Paris, 2019 190,000 Shoah Memorial 178,000 180,000 Officially recognized non-profit foundation in France President: Éric de Rothschild 170,000 Siren 784 243 784 17 rue Geoffroy-l’Asnier/75004 Paris [email protected] www.memorialdelashoah.org 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2 3 2018 Highlights Éric de Rothschild and Julian Sander at the opening of the exhibition August Sander. Persecuted/Persecutors, People of the Twentieth Century. © Shoah Memorial. Temporary exhibitions 42,680 visitors 12,694 visitors (end 2018) August Sander, Persecuted / Persecutors, People of the Twentieth Century March 8-November 15 The Shoah Memorial held a major exhibition of portraits made during The Internment of Jérome Bonin, president of the Memorial des Nomades de France, touring the exhibition on opening night. the Third Reich by one of Germany’s © Shoah Memorial/Photo: Michel Isaac. leading photographers, August Sander Nomads, 1940-1946: 2018 HIGHLIGHTS 2018 HIGHLIGHTS (1876-1964). Internationally renowned as a French Story Scientific committee: Henriette Asséo, professor at EHESS, member of a pioneer of the documentary style, he View of the exhibition August Sander, Persecuted / November 14, 2018-March 17, 2019 the Executive Committee of Gypsy studies at Paris- made many of the twentieth century’s Persecutors, People of the Twentieth Century. Descartes University most iconic photographs. After the © Shoah Memorial. Curators: From October 1940 to May 1946, over Monique Heddebaut, historian and president of the Sophie Nagiscarde, Marie-Edith Agostini, Flines-les-Raches historical society First World War, Sander began working Shoah Memorial 6,500 people, most of them French, Marie-Christine Hubert, historian and archivist 2018 HIGHLIGHTS 2018 HIGHLIGHTS on what would eventually become his Institutional partner: including many children, were interned Ilsen About, researcher at the CNRS, Centre Georges August Sander Stiftung Simmel, EHESS life’s project: a photographic portrait Media partners: in more than 30 camps for nomads Jerome Bonin, president of the Memorial des of German society called People of Le Monde, France Télévisions, Beaux-Arts Magazine, across France. In an October 2016 Nomades de France Polka, Toute l’Histoire Alexandre Doulut, historian, doctoral candidate at the Twentieth Century. In his Cologne Visibility in the press: speech at the site of the Montreuil- Paris 1 University studio around 1938, he took many 115 mentions and articles Bellay camp, President François Emmanuel Filhol, teacher and researcher at Bordeaux ID pictures of persecuted Jews and Promotional campaign: Hollande acknowledged the Republic’s 1 University Posters in metro stations from January 18 to 31 Théophile Leroy, “agrégé” history-geography teacher portraits of Nazis. After the war, Sander (10 massive posters in the corridors) responsibility in those dark times. Vincent Ritz, vice-president of the Mémorial des integrated these images as well as those and March 13 to 19 (200 locations) Nomades de France Posters on the sides of 2,200 buses, Institutional partners: made by his son Erich, who died in March 30 to April 5 Jointly organized with the Memorial the Mémorial des Nomades de France prison in 1944, into the project. Posters in shops in the Marais (1,000) des Nomades de France, this exhibition Media partners: 1 Decaux mast poster, rue de Rivoli, Toute l’Histoire, RFI, France Télévisions Sander’s strength lies in his portrayal July 31 to October 15 shed light on France’s policy between Promotional campaign: of social diversity. In that regard, 12 spots on France Culture 1939 and 1946 towards those whom its 250 locations in metro corridors from he renews our questioning of the Promotional folder (10,000 copies) and bilingual flyer laws referred to as Nomads. Although November 13 to 19 (55,000 copies) distributed in all the hotels and tourist 500 40x60 posters in shops in the Marais impossible, something the Memorial offices in Île-de-France different from Germany’s policy 1 Decaux mast poster on rue de Rivoli from takes upon itself to bring up time Promotional videos: 1 trailer on social media and towards “Zigeuner” (Gypsies) in the November to mid-December partner media (France Télévisions, Toute l’Histoire), 6,000 folders sent to cultural and community sites and again. pre-roll ad on YouTube rest of Europe, this was one of the most Guided tours: 7 In partnership with the August Exhibition poster. Photo: Die Photographische Guided tours: 65 dramatic episodes in France during the Visibility in the press: 52 mentions and articles Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kulter-August Sander Exhibition catalogue co-published Poster of the exhibition. Photo: collection Jacques Sander Foundation and the NS- Archiv, Cologne; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. by the Shoah Memorial and Steidl Verlag (Germany) Second World War, a terrible page that Sigot/Soeurs franciscaines missionnaires de Marie. Dokumentationszentrum, Cologne. © Shoah Memorial. Exhibition website has been long overlooked. © Shoah Memorial. 6 7 Between Listening and Speaking.