Mémoire | Film
Sauver Auschwitz ? Un film de Jonathan Hayoun
For 70 years, the site of Auschwitz, which has become the dreadful incarnation of the Shoah, is a theater of diversions and confrontations, plundering, attempts to exploit and rewrite its history. Beyond the historical facts, this film revisits numerous questions: what to do with the Auschwitz site? What purpose should it serve?
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Recherche | Colloque
Histoire des femmes juives en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et dans le long après-guerre
The Foundation and the Institut Emilie du Châtelet are willing to promote research on the topics, offering a doctoral and a post-doc stipend to researchers from various disciplines. This study day will present the huge available resources and let issues and callings come up. French will be the language of the meeting.
Mémoire | Film
La Passeuse des Aubrais - Michaël Prazan
Documentary filmmaker Michaël Prazan’s captivating and personal detective story uncovers the truth behind his father’s childhood escape from Nazi-occupied France, which was made possible by a female smuggler with mysterious motivations.
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Aide aux survivants | Israël
Des étudiants boursiers pour lutter contre l’isolement des survivants de la Shoah
The Foundation For The Benefit Of Holocaust Victims In Israel grants a scholarship of NIS 5,000 to students who volunteer 120 hours during the academic year. Each student visits two Holocaust survivors in their homes and helps them cope with their loneliness.
Enseignement | Colloque
Séminaire - Enseigner l’histoire des génocides et des violences de masse : un point d’entrée pour l’éducation à la paix
UNESCO partners with the National Commission of Senegal to UNESCO to organize a training seminar for high-level civil servants of ministries of education of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Mali, Niger and Senegal. A public conference will take place before the seminar.
Recherche | Conférence
Conference - After Genocide: Gendered Trauma, Transmission and Reinvention
Aide aux survivants | Activités estivales
Bel Été à Marseille
Since 2015, the Jewish Social Action Committee of Marseille’s AMéA platform has offered seniors a summertime support and leisure activity program. Most of the outings involve walking tours of Marseille and the surrounding area.
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Aide aux survivants | Israël
Amcha, des soins psychologiques au Centre de Netanya et à domicile
Founded in 1987, Amcha is the biggest Israeli organization offering survivors and their families psychological and social support and providing psychological follow-up at home.
Mémoire | Film
Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé. Un film de Jérôme Prieur
April 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old student and a brilliant violonist, begins keeping a journal. She tells with great accuracy about the noose tightening: having to wear the yellow star, the Vel d’Hiv roundup, the daily consequences of the anti-Jewish law passed by the Vichy Government.
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Enseignement | Projet pédagogique
Un projet éducatif européen autour de l’histoire du convoi 77
The European project Convoi 77 intends to piece together the personal life story of each of the 1321 deportees of the last large convoy that left from Drancy to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944, by sending students from the 37 countries the deportees were from on their traces.