Activity report (Mémorial de la Shoah. Printed brochure) ISSN 2607-5563 (Mémorial de la Shoah. Online brochure) ISSN 2608-242X Mémorial de la Shoah/Shoah Memorial Officially recognised non-profit foundation in France Siren 784 243 784 2017 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier 75004 Paris/France _ Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 77 44 72 Fax: +33 (0)1 53 01 17 44 [email protected] www.memorialdelashoah.org Editorial After two consecutive years of We are particularly happy that declining attendance, in 2017 the Shoah the memory of Simone Veil was Memorial had the immense pleasure of honoured during the recent ceremony welcoming 257,239 visitors to Paris and transferring her and her husband’s Drancy, a record since its re-opening in remains to the Pantheon. A founding 2005. member of the Shoah Memorial, this courageous woman helped to The success can be ascribed to a better modernize her country, combated anti- climate combined with an outstanding Semitism and campaigned to keep the program, including ground-breaking memory of the Holocaust alive. Her exhibitions such as Holocaust and spirit is present in our work every day Comics, an unexpected theme that and guides us to the future. drew a new public, and Drancy: Gateway to Hell. Drawings by Georges Lastly, I would like to thank the Horan-Koiransky at the Drancy Shoah dedicated, conscientious team that EDITORIAL Memorial as part of its fifth anniversary. tirelessly works to preserve and Éric de Rothschild. The variety and quality of our activities transmit the history of the Holocaust: © DR. also played a part. Over 60,000 people, the staff, volunteers, donors and, of including 2,236 school groups, took course, Holocaust witnesses who do guided tours or visits of remembrance, us the honour of coming to share listened to testimonies, participated their stories. They have earned all my in workshops or attended events in affection and admiration. the Edmond J. Safra Auditorium. In addition, the Shoah Memorial Éric de Rothschild signed an unprecedented number of President of the Shoah Memorial agreements with school districts to set up teacher training programs. Our commitment extends beyond our walls. The Shoah Memorial holds students’ workshops in schools in France and internationally, relying on branches in Italy and the United States to organize seminars and travelling exhibitions. This precious work allows us to foster ties with new publics and institutions beyond our borders. The Year 2017 in Figures Attendance · 63,000 people participated in an · 8,351 people attended events in the Activities Archives and Collections Visibility educational activity at the Shoah Edmond J. Safra auditorium (6,629 in · 257,239 visitors in 2017, including Memorial 2016) · 3 temporary exhibitions opened at · 19,907 images, 244 films,441,253 · 2,281 mentions or articles in the media 228,934 to the Paris Shoah Memorial the Paris Shoah Memorial and 1 at the pages of documents and 2,469 books school groups were welcomed people visited the Multimedia and 28,305 to the Drancy Shoah · 2,236 · 770 Drancy Shoah Memorial and periodicals were acquired in 2017 · 21,630 likes on Facebook, (1,877 to Paris and 359 to Drancy) Learning Centre (682 in 2016) Memorial (212,421 in 2016) 8,025 Twitter followers, · 108 venues hosted travelling · 134 projects (books, exhibitions, 300 Instagram subscribers · 9,430 professionals took courses · 5,802 readers visited the reading room · Nearly 140,000 people visited exhibitions in France (94) and abroad films, etc.) used photographs from the (9,782 in 2016), including lecture (5,793 in 2016) temporary exhibitions at the Shoah 5,008 (14) Memorial’s collection · 165,000 folders distributed in the Île- teachers throughout France (4,016 in de-France tourist network 2017 IN FIGURES THE YEAR Memorial in Paris and Drancy, · 1,200,258 pages were viewed during 2016) and 2,745 police trainees · The 2nd Shoah Memorial teachers’ · 3,807 documents were communicated and almost 150,000 the travelling the visits to the Shoah (1,836 in 2016) 811,497 conference in the reading room · Multimedia campaign devoted to the exhibitions in France and abroad Memorial’s websites Drancy Shoah Memorial based on the · 116 teacher training courses: 37 for slogan “Paris-Drancy, 12 km, Drancy primary schools and 79 for secondary camp-Auschwitz camp 1,220 km” total number of visitors to the Shoah Memorial schools Multimedia campaigns for each 257,239 · THE YEAR 2017 IN FIGURES THE YEAR No. of visitors · 95 events at the Edmond J. Safra temporary exhibition (28,305 Drancy/ 228,934 Paris) Auditorium 260,000 · 41 film shoots. · 7 major commemorations and 44 250,000 ceremonies in memory of those · The Shoah Memorial belongs to the 227,410 Network of Places Commemorating 240,000 224,970 deported in 1942 (24,910 Drancy/ 219,000 (23,370 Drancy/ the Holocaust in France and the 202,500 Paris) 230,000 (17,000 Drancy/ 201,600 Paris) 212,421 · 36 study trips and journeys from Paris Marais Culture + network 202,000 Paris) (24,344 Drancy/ and the provinces (31 to Auschwitz), 220,000 188,077 Paris) with 3,326 participants (individuals, 210,000 205,860 schools, teachers) 200,249 Activity report 200,000 · 468 outside-the-walls school (Mémorial de la Shoah. Printed brochure) ISSN 2607-5563 workshops (217 in 2016) (Mémorial de la Shoah. Online brochure) ISSN 2608-242X 190,000 © Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, 2018 178,000 Mémorial de la Shoah/Shoah Memorial 180,000 Officially recognised non-profit foundation in France President: Éric de Rothschild 170,000 Siren 784 243 784 17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier/75004 Paris/France [email protected] www.memorialdelashoah.org 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2 3 2017 Highlights Culture and Communication Minister Audrey Azoulay, Shoah Memorial president Éric de Rothschild, screenwriter and comic book author Enki Bilal and exhibition curator Didier Pasamonik touring the Holocaust and Comics exhibition on January 18, 2017. © Mémorial de la Shoah/Photo: Florence Brochoire. Temporary exhibitions Exhibition poster. Painting by Enki Bilal. 2017 HIGHLIGHTS © Mémorial de la Shoah. Exhibition curator Dominique Missika and Shoah Memorial president Éric de Rothschild touring the exhibition. © Mémorial de la Shoah/Photo: Sandra Saragoussi. Exhibition poster. © Mémorial de la Shoah/ 2017 HIGHLIGHTS coll. Serge Klarsfeld. The Klaus Barbie Trial, Holocaust and Comics Comic book authors at the Shoah Memorial’s Edmond J. Safra Auditorium at the opening. January 19, 2017-January 7, 2018 © Mémorial de la Shoah/Photo: Michel Isaac. Lyon 1987 March 30-October 15, 2017 After literature, film, television and, especially, the gradual emergence Institutional partners: : Handed over to French justice on of the history of the Holocaust in Denoël Graphic, Panini Comics, Angoulême Posters in the Canal BD Librairies network (600 copies) February 5, 1983, former Lyon Gestapo the collective memory, comic books International Comics Festival, Cité internationale de la Posters in Marais shops (800 copies) bande dessinée et de l’image, galerie Martel, Centre Mupi/Decaux panel poster around August 15, 2017 (400 chief Klaus Barbie stood trial in Lyon turned to the subject of the murder of national du livre, galerie Barbier et Mathon, La Revue copies) offered free by the City of Paris from May 11 to July 4, 1987. It was the six million Jews during the Second dessinée, galerie Anne Barrault, galerie et éditions Promotional folder (4,000 copies) and bilingual flyer first trial in France for crimes against Institutional partners: Daniel Maghen (60,000 copies) distributed to all the hotels and tourist National Audiovisual Institute, Rhône Department, World War. Combining art and history, Media partners: offices in Île-de-France humanity. The exhibition disclosed the Grand Lyon La Métropole, Departmental and the exhibition focused on their visual Actua BD, Canal BD Librairies, Toute l’Histoire, Promotional videos: a motion design trailer on social significant event’s story to mark its 30th Metropolitan Archives, National Archives, Ministry of sources, relevance, scope and limits. L’Express, Figaroscope, France 5, France Info media and media partners (France Télévisions, Toute Culture and Communication, Le Progrès Press coverage: l’Histoire), advertising pre-roll on YouTube and in anniversary (37 days, 107 witnesses, 42 Media partners: 270 mentions and articles Gaumont and Pathé Paris cinemas (one week in late lawyers). Toute l’Histoire, The Huffington Post Comic book author and publisher Promotional campaign: January 2017), commercials on the France Télévisions Promotional campaign: Posters in the metro from January 24 to 31 (250 group’s networks Posters in Paris shop windows from April 3 to 16, 2017 Didier Pasamonik and Joël Kotek, a locations) and January 18 to 31, 2017 (10 corridor Street marketing late January in the Marais Historian, publisher and producer (270 locations) historian at the Université Libre de posters) Guided tours: 159 Dominique Missika and Shoah Promotional flyer (7,500 copies) Bus stop posters from January 24 to February 15 Number of visitors: 73,407 Guided tours: 18 Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), (2,100 locations) and November 14 to 20, 2017 (2,250 Exhibition catalogue Memorial head archivist Karen Taieb Number of visitors: 35,389 curated the exhibition. locations) Exhibition mini-website curated the exhibition. Press coverage: 45 mentions and articles 6 7 Events 95 8,351 participants events in the Edmond J. Safra Auditorium Within the Exhibitions From November 25, 2016 to March 12, During the Holocaust and Comics 2017, 24,126 people visited The 20th exhibition, the series in the Edmond Century’s First Genocide: Herero and J. Safra Auditorium focused on the Nama in German Southwest Africa contribution and limitations of comic (1904-1908). The exhibition was an books, drawings and humour, especially opportunity to organize screenings the panel discussion “I’ve Heard Some View of the exhibition Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Fighting for Memory (1968-1978).