Open seminar at the Mémorial de la Shoah

June 28, 2015

17 rue Geoffroy-l’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Salle Jacob Gordin, 2nd floor.

Programme

9.30 a.m.: Welcome, coffee and croissants
10 a.m.: Opening

• Willy COUTIN (Académie de Bordeaux): Aktion Reinhardt and the destruction of the Jews of Poland – the state of historical research and what the world knew.

• Sylvie ALTAR (Lyon): A micro-history of the Jews in Lyon during the war.

• Claudia BOURDIN (Turin) and Nathalie de SPIRT (Paris): How to teach the Shoah to a difficult audience? Understanding the history of the Shoah through multidisciplinary teaching.

LUNCH BREAK 12.45 p.m.
Coffee 1.45 p.m.
Resumption 2 p.m.

• Michèle MEROWKA (Nice): Persecution and round-ups in the Italian occupation zone.

• Renée DRAY-BENSOUSSAN (Marseille): The Jewish question in Marseille from 1939 to 1944.

• Henri KOEN (Nice): The Shoah in Greece – the particular case of Ioannina.

End of the seminar at 5.30 p.m.

Each talk lasts about 45 minutes and is followed by questions and informal discussion