2^nd Shoah Generations Forum: intergenerational meetings on the theme “living after the Shoah”

April 13, 2022

From July 2 to 4, 2022

A friendly family event bringing together Shoah survivors, Jewish fighters, hidden children, the Righteous of France and all their descendants.

After the huge success of the first Shoah Generations Forum in Paris in February 2019, which brought together more than 600 people of all generations at the Mémorial de la Shoah, and after two years of pandemic, the Mémorial de la Shoah is once again hosting the Shoah Generations Forum.

Meetings, sharing, workshops, lectures, dinners, shows and visits: here is the programme of this second edition, with a host of speakers. These days of exchange are for all the generations who, marked by the Shoah, feel the need to come together. Growing up after the Shoah, returning to families, the echoes of the Shoah in one’s life, family heritage, passing on in all its forms, remembering and preventing – all these subjects will be addressed.

Programme

Friday, July 1, 2022

• 7.30 to 9.30 p.m.: Welcome dinner
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah (limited places)

Saturday, July 2, 2022

• 3 to 5.30 p.m.: Welcome
  Participants are welcomed by the partner associations of the event, with activities, genealogy workshops, information stands and a point for collecting family archives.

• 5.30 to 8 p.m.: Opening of the forum

  • Official opening

  • Shura Lipovsky and her musicians

  • Buffet dinner

Sunday, July 3, 2022

• 9 a.m.: Welcome
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah

• 10 to 11.30 a.m.: Growing up after the Shoah
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah
  7 workshops to choose from
  After the Liberation, how did one take one’s place again in a family often shattered by the war? How did one (re)build one’s life after being a deported child or a hidden child? How did orphaned children grow up in children’s homes? For children born after the war, how did they grow up with one or two parents who had survived the camps, sometimes with siblings born before or during the war? Then come questions about their own upbringing, intergenerational dialogue, and also passing things on.

• 12 noon to 2 p.m.: Lunch
  Venue: Collège François Couperin

• 2 to 3 p.m.: Main interview
  Venue: Collège François Couperin

• 3.30 to 5 p.m.: The echoes of the Shoah in my life
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah
  6 workshops to choose from
  Denial, things left unsaid, family secrets: the workshops deal with late discovery of Jewish identity and family history. Often without any real family transmission, speakers and participants explain why and how they rediscovered Jewish customs, music and traditions, or the languages spoken in their family. For artists and writers: how has the Shoah influenced their personal and professional lives?

• 5.15 to 6.45 p.m.: Acting to remember, pass on and prevent
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah
  6 workshops to choose from
  Believers, non-believers, observant, estranged… has the history of the Shoah changed our practices? The workshops build a bridge between generations and invite them to talk about what unites or separates them. Does researching one’s genealogy, consulting archives or making a memorial journey help us find traces of our lost family? Memorial associations are asking themselves about their future as the witnesses disappear. Should they dissolve themselves, or can they reinvent themselves? In the face of resurgent antisemitism, what debate is there between activists and generations?

• 7 to 8 p.m.: Closing evening
  Venue: Collège François Couperin

Monday, July 4, 2022

• From 10 a.m.: Visits to choose from
  Venue: Mémorial de la Shoah

  • Various routes in Paris

  • Mémorial de la Shoah at Drancy

  • CERCIL

  • Mont Valérien

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The Shoah Generations Forum is a time of sharing and friendship, of listening and exchange. It brings together Shoah survivors, hidden children, Jewish fighters and all their descendants, associations dedicated to the memory of the victims and of the fighters, and the Righteous of France and their descendants. The Shoah Generations Forum brings all the generations together around shared interests, to help them look at the past, move towards the future, renew old friendships and make new ones, work on passing on, preserve the memory of the Shoah and continue the fight against antisemitism and oblivion.

Information & registration

01 42 77 44 72

forumgenerations@memorialdelashoah.org

Mémorial de la Shoah
17 rue Geoffroy-l’Asnier
75004 Paris

www.memorialdelashoah.org

ACTIVITY ORGANISED BY THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE SHOAH GENERATIONS FORUM, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING ASSOCIATIONS:

AACCE (ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DE LA COMMISSION CENTRALE DE L’ENFANCE)– AFMA (ASSOCIATION FONDS MÉMOIRE D’AUSCHWITZ) – AJPN (ANONYMES, JUSTES ET PERSÉCUTÉS DURANT LA PÉRIODE NAZIE) – AKI ESTAMOS - ALOUMIM – AL SYETE– AMEJDAM (ASSOCIATION POUR LA MÉMOIRE DES ENFANTS JUIFS DÉPORTÉS DES ALPES-MARITIMES) – AMICALE DES ANCIENS ET SYMPATHISANTS DE L’OSE (OEUVRE DE SECOURS AUX ENFANTS) – AMICALE DU CAMP DE GURS – AMIF (ASSOCIATION DES MÉDECINS ISRAÉLITES DE FRANCE) – MÉMOIRES DU CONVOI 6 ET DES CAMPS DU LOIRET – ASSOCIATION CONVOI 8 – ASSOCIATION CONVOI 68 – CDDEJ (CENTRE DE DOCUMENTATION SUR LA DÉPORTATION DES ENFANTS JUIFS DE LYON) – CENTRE CULTUREL JULES ISAAC (CLERMONT-FERRAND) – CENTRE GEORGES DEVEREUX – CENTRE MEDEM – CENTRE SIMON WIESENTHAL – CERCLE BERNARD LAZARE – CERCLE D’ÉTUDE DE LA DÉPORTATION ET DE LA SHOAH – CLEJ (CLUB LAÏC DE L’ENFANCE JUIVE) – COMITÉ FRANCAIS POUR YAD VASHEM – COMMISSION DES ENFANTS CACHÉS DU MÉMORIAL DE LA SHOAH – COMMISSION ENGAGÉS VOLONTAIRES ANCIENS COMBATTANTS JUIFS DU MÉMORIAL DE LA SHOAH – COMMISSION DU SOUVENIR DU CRIF (CONSEIL REPRÉSENTATIF DES INSTITUTIONS JUIVES DE FRANCE) – COMEJD (CONSEIL NATIONAL POUR LA MÉMOIRE DES ENFANTS JUIFS DÉPORTÉS) – COMMUNAUTÉ JUIVE DE NANCY– ENFANTS DES FOYERS DE LA CCE – EEIF (ÉCLAIREURS ÉCLAIREUSES ISRAÉLITES DE FRANCE) – FAMILLES ET AMIS DES DÉPORTÉS DU CONVOI 73 – FAMILLES ET AMIS
DES DÉPORTÉS DU CONVOI 77 – FARBAND-USJF (UNION DES SOCIÉTÉS JUIVES DE FRANCE) – FFDJF (ASSOCIATION DES FILS ET FILLES DES DÉPORTÉS JUIFS DE FRANCE) – FONDATION CASIP COJASOR (COMITÉ D’ACTION SOCIALE ISRAÉLITE DE PARIS ET COMITÉ JUIF D’ACTION SOCIALE ET DE RECONSTRUCTION) – FONDATION OPEJ (OEUVRE DE PROTECTION DES ENFANTS JUIFS) – FONDATION VERBE ET LUMIÈRE VIGILANCE– FMS (FONDATION POUR LA MÉMOIRE DE LA SHOAH) – FSJU (FONDS SOCIAL JUIF UNIFIÉ) – FSJU/NOÉ (DEPARTEMENT JEUNESSE) – GARDIENS DE LA VIE – HACHOMER HATZAÏR – HIDDEN CHILDREN, USA – JEAA (JUDÉO-ESPAGNOL À AUSCHWITZ) – L’ENFANT ET LA SHOAH / YAD LAYELED FRANCE – LES ANCIENS DE L’OPEJ – LES ENFANTS ET AMIS ABADI – LIBERTÉ DU JUDAÏSME – MAISON DE LA CULTURE YIDDISH – MÉMOIRE JUIVE – MOISSAC VILLE DE JUSTES OUBLIÉE – MRJ / M.O.I. (MÉMOIRE DES RÉSISTANTS JUIFS DE LA MAIN D’OEUVRE IMMIGRÉE) – MUESTROS DEZAPARESIDOS – ORT (ORGANISATION RECONSTRUCTION TRAVAIL) – OSE (OEUVRE DE SECOURS AUX ENFANTS) – OSE USA – PAS D’AVENIR SANS MÉMOIRE – PASSERELLES – RÉSEAU 2G DE GENÈVE – SBVS (SOLIDARITÉ BIEN VIEILLIR DES SURVIVANTS DE LA SHOAH) – UEJF (UNION DES ÉTUDIANTS JUIFS DE FRANCE) – UDA (UNION DES DÉPORTÉS D’AUSCHWITZ) - UJRE (UNION DES JUIFS POUR LA RÉSISTANCE ET L’ENTRAIDE) – VIDAS LARGAS – YIDDISH SANS FRONTIÈRE