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The «Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr» was opened in 1956 in Paris as the first Memorial in Europe related to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War; it was renewed and enlarged in 2005, becoming the “Mémorial de la Shoah” which is today the largest research, information and awareness-raising center in Europe on the history of the genocide of the Jews. The Shoah Memorial includes a wall with the names of the 76.000 deported and exterminated Jews from France, a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jews in France during the Second World War, space for temporary exhibitions, a crypt, a documentation center with several millions of pages of archives and 30.000 books, an auditorium for film screenings and training activities, a multimedia learning center and a bookshop. – In 2012, the Memorial de la Shoah opened a new Memorial site in Drancy, in the North of Paris, at the location of the former detention camp from where most of the Jews of France were deported between 1942 and 1944 and which was run by the French police which collaborated with the German occupier. The new building with a permanent exhibition, a documentation centar and educational rooms is located in immediate neighborhood to the buildings which were constructed in the 1930s, were then used as camp during the war and which are used as residential buildings since 1948.
Pictures of the visit:
Drancy - Exhibition in the Memorial
Paris - Within the Shoah Memorial
Paris - Wall of Names
Drancy - Monument
Drancy - View of the Cité de la Muette from the Memorial with model of the Cité
Paris - In front of the Wall of Names
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