IRRC No. 910
In folio: The Shoah Memorial: A history retraced from the Drancy site
Reading time 36 min read
Abstract
Between the inauguration of the Tomb of the Unknown Jewish Martyr in 1956 in
Paris and the opening of the Shoah Memorial in Drancy in 2012, the narration of
the Shoah in France has evolved through the use of archives, discussions,
commemorations and exhibitions. In the immediate post-war period, a small group
of people worked on the construction of a dedicated place to document the genocide
of Jews in Europe in order to ensure that the memory of the Shoah would be
impregnated into the collective consciousness. This project, which later evolved into
the Paris and Drancy Shoah Memorials, could be seen as an expression of what
remembrance is in France today.