Exhibition “On the trail of the Jewish children of the 11th arrondissement of Paris”
January 25, 2020
The exhibition “On the trail of the Jewish children of the 11th arrondissement of Paris” will be shown from Monday, January 27 to February 7, 2020 in the exhibition room of the town hall of the 11th in Paris, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and until 7.30 p.m. on Thursdays (free admission).
Les Enfants et Amis Abadi will be there.
When the Second World War broke out, the 11th was one of the two Paris arrondissements with the largest number of Jewish families. 1,642 children aged from 28 days to 18 years who lived in the arrondissement or had attended its schools were deported to the Nazi camps. Through archive documents, testimonies and photographs, these young people are at the heart of an exhibition organised by the Association for the Memory of the Deported Jewish Children of the 11th (AMEJD-XIe) and the association L’Enfant et la Shoah – Yad Layeled France.
In the exhibition room of the town hall of the 11th arrondissement, visitors will discover large panels. Some trace individual lives: the child’s place in the family, the circumstances of the arrest and present-day testimony about the child. Others recall the lives of Jewish families in the face of mounting discrimination, their attempts to escape arrest, and the solidarity that enabled some of them to be saved.
The organisers of this exhibition, aimed at a wide public, hope for visits from primary and secondary schools at the time of the commemorations around January 27, the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity.
Investigative work for memory
For twenty years, the Association for the Memory of the Deported Jewish Children (AMEJD-XIe), with the participation of teachers and the involvement of their pupils, has worked to restore an identity to the 1,642 Jewish children deported from the 11th arrondissement of Paris, carrying out a real investigation by searching for their names in school registers. In every neighbourhood, in every school, it has had a commemorative plaque engraved to remind those who now attend the same schools of these deported children.
Educational work for memory
The association L’Enfant et la Shoah – Yad Layeled France designs and distributes educational resources to help teachers get pupils thinking about the daily lives of Jewish children during the Shoah, about antisemitism, exclusion and racism.
Contacts
AMEJD of the 11th
06 15 10 09 08
exposition.amejd11e@gmail.com
www.amejd11.org
L’Enfant et la Shoah
Galith Touati
06 68 29 29 41
info@yadlayeled.org
www.lenfantetlashoah.org