Mémorial de la Shoah
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| place | Paris, France |
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| opening | 2005 |
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The Mémorial de la Shoah (French also Center de documentation juive contemporaine , CDJC, German Shoah memorial ) is the central memorial to the Holocaust in France . The focus is on the persecution of Jews in occupied France and in the area of the Vichy regime from 1940–1944. The Mémorial de la Shoah is also a museum with various opportunities to find out about the history of the Jews in France and Europe and the French resistance to the so-called “ Final Solution to the Jewish Question ”. The museum was established in January 2005 at the Maraisopened in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, very close to the town hall .
Important components
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The important components of the memorial are
- Le parvis (The Court)
- Le fronton (the memorial wall)
- the wall of names ( mur des Noms )
- the index card room ( fichier juif )
- the wall with the names of the Righteous Among the Nations from France
- the crypt
- the library (with various research options)
Inscription on the memorial wall
- Devant le Martyr Juif Inconnu
- incline ton respect
- ta piété pour tous les martyrs,
- chemine en pensée avec eux
- le long de leur voie douloureuse,
- elle te conduira au plus skin sommet
- de justice et de vérité.
(by: Justin Godart (1871–1956), former minister, honorary chairman of the Comité du Martyr Juif Inconnu )
Translation: "Show your respect for the unknown Jewish martyr, your reverence for all martyrs, accompany them in your thoughts on their long journey of suffering, he will lead you to the highest peak of justice and truth."
Predecessor institutions
On April 28, 1943 gathered Isaac Schneersohn in an apartment in the Rue Bizanet in Grenoble in the ground 40 Active and managers of the various Jewish communities and founded the Center de Documentation Juive Contemporaine .
Partner of the center
Partners ( Les associations abritées au Mémorial ) are:
- Les Enfants Cachés (formerly hidden children in France)
- Mémoire juive de Paris
- Mémoires du convoi 6
- Conseil National pour la Mémoire des Enfants Juifs Déportés (Comejd)
Other Holocaust memorial and research centers
- Yad Vashem in Jerusalem , Israel
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Poland
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , USA
- Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust , USA
- Florida Holocaust Museum in Saint Petersburg (Florida, USA)
- Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills ( Michigan , USA)
- Holocaust Documentation Center in Budapest
literature
- Renée Poznanski: Center de documentation. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 485-486.
- Information about the Shoah memorial (also as a PDF file)
Web links
- Mémorial de la Shoah (French / English)
- Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Foundation for the maintenance of the memorial)
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '17.4 " N , 2 ° 21' 22.3" E