Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy

After a campaign by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, the Drancy Shoah Memorial opened to the public on September 23, 2012. A historic place where memory is transmitted, this branch of the Paris Memorial presents the the former internment camp’s history.

Mémoires de la Shoah. Témoignages vidéos coproduits avec l'INA

Simone Veil and Emmanuel Hoog, head of the National Audiovisual Institute, announced the completion of the first programme ‘Testimonies of the Shoah', a collection of 115 audiovisual testimonies of former deportees, hidden children, Resistance workers, Justes and other witnesses of the period of Occupation. 

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Le Projet Aladin, pour un dialogue fondé sur le rejet du négationnisme

The Aladdin Project was initiated in 2009 by the FMS as an independent educational and cultural programme. Hundreds of academics as well as prominent members of the Arab-Muslim world have given their support to the project whose aim is to make available in Arabic, Persian and Turkish information about the Shoah, Judeo-Muslim relations and Jewish culture.

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Anthologie du judaïsme

This anthology, destined for a general readership, brings together fundamental texts, selected by several specialists, which evoke the richness and diversity of a rich culture that goes back several thousand years.

Editions Nathan, 2007

Hommage de la Nation aux Justes de France

On January 18th, 2007 President Jacques Chirac, at the invitation of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah and its president, Simone Veil, pays homage, in the name of the people of France, to the Justes of France and all those anonymous French men and women who saved the lives of Jews during the Occupation. The ceremony will be a reminder of the fact that the lives of three quarters of the Jews of France were saved during that period.

January 18th, 2007

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Réhabilitation de la Judenrampe à Auschwitz

On the initiative of Serge Klarsfeld, the Foundation has financed and organised the reconstruction of the Judenrampe, the platform at Auschwitz where convoys of Jews from France and elsewhere in Europe arrived up until March 1944.

January 27, 2005