Around January 27... To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a number of meetings, film screenings and documentaries are scheduled for January and February 2025.
Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 3pm
Screening of The Zone of Interest - by Jonathan Glazer (USA, Great Britain, Poland, fiction, approx. 1h40, vostfr)
> Auschwitz Birkenau camp commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house with a garden next to the camp.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the last Cannes Film Festival, this film is based on the novel by writer Martin Amis.
A museum mediator will be on hand at the end of the screening to answer any questions you may have about the history of Auschwitz.
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - Double feature - moderated by Eduardo Castillo, journalist
2pm - The roots of evil: totalitarian rhetoric from Auschwitz to the present day
> How do semantic shifts occur in our everyday language? How can our thoughts and actions be influenced by fascist rhetoric? The choice of words is never innocent: words have always preceded barbarism. Olivier Mannoni, translator and specialist in Nazi texts, has been studying for years how hatred can be institutionalized to persuade an entire population to join and participate in genocide. To combat this dangerous trivialization, he provides us with the tools to remain vigilant and lucid in the face of this peril.
In the presence ofOlivier Mannoni, German translator, journalist and biographer.
4pm - Communist Jewish resistance and deportation in France
> In September 1939, the Daladier government dissolved the French Communist Party following the signing of the German-Soviet pact, forcing the party underground. Some of its active members gradually joined the Resistance, notably within the MOI (Immigrant Manpower). Among them were Jews persecuted by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupiers. Most of them of foreign origin and often very young, they were constantly hunted down. Some were shot in reprisal for their commitment, while most were deported because of their Jewish identity. 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, what remains to be discovered about these resistance fighters?
Alongside our speakers, we'll look back at the lives of several emblematic deportees (Henri Krasucki, Paulette Sarcey, Victor Zigelman, etc.).
In the presence of Christian Langeois, biographer, Carine Klein Peschanski, CNRS research engineer, and Thomas Fontaine, historian and director of projects at the Musée de la Résistance Nationale.
A Mémorial de Paris - Drancy shuttle service is available on January 19, 2025 - Fare: free, subject to availability.
Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 4:15pm
Tribute to Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor: speaking the unspeakable
> An Auschwitz survivor, Primo Levi is not a writer by profession. Yet his works are part of a literary heritage that is essential for understanding the specificities of the concentration camp world and the identity upheaval caused by the experience of racial deportation. How do you tell a story when language itself is impeded? How can we describe, transmit and, above all, return to humanity when we have been removed from it? Through literature, he reveals the inner workings of the "gigantic biological and social experiment" that was Auschwitz-Birkenau.Auschwitz-Birkenau, but also builds bridges between a world before and a world after, between his generation and those that will follow, who will have to understand, whatever the cost.
In the presence of Béatrice Munaro, Doctor in General and Comparative Literature.
Photo : DR
Monday, January 27, 2025 - starting at 2pm
Commemorative ceremony for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity in front of the Shelomo Selinger monument
Rv in front of the Memorial de la Shoah in Drancy.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 4:15pm
Screening - The Auschwitz trial: the end of silence by Barbara Necek
(France, documentary, 52 mn, 13 Productions, France Télévisions, Toute l'Histoire, 2017)
> On December 20, 1963, the Auschwitz trial opened in Frankfurt. In the dock, Germans like any others. Their particularity: they had all been SS men during the war, and had served in a Nazi camp set up next to the Polish village of Owicim, German for "Auschwitz". Facing them are some 360 witnesses, including 211 Auschwitz survivors. In a Germany hostile to the truth, they will confront the country for the first time with the crimes of its past, and reveal to the world the horror of Auschwitz.
With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
In February 2025, follow the meeting with Ginette Kolinka + film Les filles de Birkenau
tel : 01 42 77 44 72 
Getting there
Jean Rostand
Bobigny Pablo Picasso
Le Bourget Escadrille Normandie-Niémen Auguste Delaune Bobigny Pablo Picasso Jean Rostand
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