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10, avenue Percier<br />
75008 Paris<br />
Tel. +33 (0) 1 53 42 63 10<br />
Fax +33 (0) 1 53 42 63 11<br />
www.fondationshoah.org<br />
Foundation<br />
For the<br />
MeMory<br />
oF the <strong>Shoah</strong>
Foundation<br />
for the Memory<br />
of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
The Foundation for the Memory<br />
of the <strong>Shoah</strong> was created in 2000 as part<br />
of the recognition and compensation<br />
for the Holocaust in France.<br />
The initial endowment of 393 million<br />
euros came from the restitution by<br />
the government and certain financial<br />
institutions of dormant accounts from<br />
expropriated Jews living in France<br />
who were killed during the Holocaust.<br />
With the funds generated from this<br />
endowment, the Foundation subsidizes<br />
the <strong>Shoah</strong> Memorial in Paris; supports<br />
projects bearing on research and the<br />
history of the <strong>Shoah</strong>; provi<strong>de</strong>s assistance<br />
to survivors in need; and enc<strong>our</strong>ages<br />
the transmission of Jewish culture<br />
and heritage.<br />
The Foundation for the Memory<br />
of the <strong>Shoah</strong> upholds key principles:<br />
respect for historical truth; responsibility<br />
and solidarity with victims of anti-Semitic<br />
<strong>la</strong>ws; recognition of the values of<br />
Judaism; and accessibility for everyone.
An in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
and publicbenefit<br />
foundation<br />
Organization<br />
Honorary presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Simone Veil, former Minister,<br />
member of the Académie Française<br />
Presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
David <strong>de</strong> Rothschild,<br />
Presi<strong>de</strong>nt of Rothschild & Cie Vice presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Serge K<strong>la</strong>rsfeld,<br />
Presi<strong>de</strong>nt of the Association<br />
of the Sons and Daughters of Jews<br />
Deported from France (FFDJF)<br />
Functioning<br />
The Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
relies on a permanent staff that works closely<br />
with those who have submitted project proposals.<br />
All the projects are assessed and reviewed by<br />
specific thematic committees. The Foundation<br />
fosters a re<strong>la</strong>tionship of dialogue, mutual trust,<br />
contractualization and evaluation with those<br />
responsible for the various projects.<br />
Further information:<br />
www.fondationshoah.org<br />
Board of Directors<br />
25 members divi<strong>de</strong>d into three groups<br />
Representatives from public authorities<br />
Representatives from French Jewish institutions<br />
Qualified personalities<br />
Committees<br />
Solidarity<br />
History of anti-Semitism and the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
Memory and Transmission<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> Education<br />
Jewish Culture<br />
Financial Committee<br />
Operations<br />
Funding <strong>de</strong>cisions are ma<strong>de</strong> according<br />
to a three-step process:<br />
Assessment of submitted projects<br />
Recommandation for funding after<br />
examination of projects by specific committees<br />
Decision by the Executive Board<br />
or the Board of Directors<br />
Principles of financial management<br />
Rigor and transparency<br />
Long-term maintenance of the endowment<br />
Careful and diversified asset-management<br />
Collegial governance
Solidarity<br />
olidarity and support for <strong>Shoah</strong> survivors<br />
S as they age is the primary field of activity<br />
of the Foundation. In France, the Foundation<br />
funds programs for health centers to help<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> survivors in need and set up <strong>de</strong>dicated<br />
services: care management and social support,<br />
homecare, Alzheimer’s and geriatric services,<br />
care in specialized facilities.<br />
The Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
also helps survivors in Israel and Eastern Europe,<br />
particu<strong>la</strong>rly those in the most critical situations,<br />
through programs carried out by humanitarian<br />
organizations.<br />
Examples of supported projects<br />
Case management and social support<br />
FSJU, Casip-Cojasor, OSE<br />
Homecare Adiam, Casim…<br />
Caretakers in retirement homes<br />
Casip-Cojasor, <strong>Fondation</strong> Rothschild<br />
Day center for <strong>Shoah</strong> survivors suffering<br />
from Alzheimer’s OSE, Casim<br />
Food aid programs in Israel<br />
Latet, Meir Panim…<br />
Emergency aid programs for Eastern European<br />
countries, in cooperation with the American<br />
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
History of<br />
anti-Semitism<br />
and the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
T<br />
he Foundation funds research in anti-Semitic<br />
persecutions and the Holocaust in France<br />
and abroad, in history and in other disciplines such<br />
as literature, sociology, philosophy, art history,<br />
political science and <strong>la</strong>w. The research projects<br />
(theses, research trips, conferences, publications)<br />
cover a wi<strong>de</strong> range of issues—French, German,<br />
European and comparative studies. Research<br />
themes may be directly linked to the extermination<br />
of European Jews or <strong>de</strong>al with wi<strong>de</strong>r subjects,<br />
such as anti-Semitism, the memory of the<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong>, and links between the <strong>Shoah</strong> and other<br />
genoci<strong>de</strong>s.<br />
Examples of supported projects<br />
Program of doctoral and post-doctoral grants<br />
for researchers working on the <strong>Shoah</strong> and anti-Semitism<br />
Preservation of the archives of the<br />
Commissariat général aux questions juives<br />
In partnership with the Archives Nationales<br />
Trans<strong>la</strong>tion into French of historical<br />
reference documents<br />
Remembering Survival: Insi<strong>de</strong> a Nazi S<strong>la</strong>ve Labor Camp<br />
by Christopher R. Browning<br />
Nazi Germany and the Jews<br />
by Saul Friedlän<strong>de</strong>r<br />
Cartea Neagra: the B<strong>la</strong>ck Book<br />
on the Destruction of Jews in Romania<br />
by Matatias Carp
Memory<br />
and Transmission<br />
A<br />
key element of the mission set by the Foundation<br />
for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong> is to keep<br />
alive the memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong> and its implications.<br />
It therefore supports memorial activities (commemorations,<br />
p<strong>la</strong>ques, steles) and projects that transmit<br />
this memory, while it also brings to light littleknown<br />
historical aspects, through films, exhibitions,<br />
p<strong>la</strong>ys, and the collection of audiovisual archives.<br />
The Foundation also funds renovation projects<br />
for memorial sites in France.<br />
Examples of supported projects<br />
Creation of history and memory centers<br />
for the internment camps of Drancy,<br />
Les Milles and in the Loiret area.<br />
Creation of audiovisual archives<br />
Memories of the <strong>Shoah</strong>, INA<br />
Gypsy Memories, <strong>Mémoire</strong> magnétique productions<br />
DVD-Rom<br />
Memory Tomorrow, Union of Auschwitz Deportees<br />
Documentary films<br />
Belzec by Guil<strong>la</strong>ume Moscovitz<br />
Assassinat of a Milliner by Catherine Bernstein<br />
Einsatzgruppen: The Death Briga<strong>de</strong>s by Michael Prazan<br />
The Camps in France by Jorge Amat and Denis Peschanski<br />
After the Camps, Life by Virginie Linhart<br />
Auschwitz, First Testimonies by Emil Weiss
<strong>Shoah</strong><br />
Education<br />
he Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
T regu<strong>la</strong>rly supports initiatives <strong>la</strong>unched by<br />
the French Ministry of National Education and<br />
by teachers.<br />
The Foundation subsidizes, directly or via the<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> Memorial, many school and teacher trips<br />
to memorial sites. Assistance from the Foundation<br />
may also cover pedagogical res<strong>our</strong>ces as well as<br />
the organization of training sessions and seminars<br />
for teachers.<br />
Examples of supported projects<br />
Children’s books<br />
Trees Cry Too by Irène Cohen-Janca,<br />
illustrations by Maurizio Quarello<br />
I Read True Stories, on the Vel d’Hiv roundup,<br />
the liberation of the camps, the Righteous<br />
Educational DVDs<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> and the theater<br />
Funding for educational p<strong>la</strong>ys, <strong>de</strong>velopment<br />
of res<strong>our</strong>ce materials for teachers<br />
School trips to memorial sites<br />
for approximately 5,000 stu<strong>de</strong>nts<br />
and professors every year
Jewish Culture<br />
T<br />
he Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
promotes the transmission of the millenniaold<br />
Jewish culture, which the Nazis tried to annihi<strong>la</strong>te.<br />
The goal is to explore the diversity of<br />
the Jewish i<strong>de</strong>ntity and to transmit it, particu<strong>la</strong>rly<br />
to a younger generation. The Jewish Culture<br />
Committee stresses Jewish education, the fight<br />
against anti-Semitism and the trans<strong>la</strong>tion of key<br />
texts on Jewish heritage.<br />
Examples of supported projects<br />
Cultural events<br />
Exhibitions at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire<br />
du Judaïsme in Paris (Splendor of the Camondo,<br />
The Avant-Gar<strong>de</strong> and the Yiddish Book, 1914-1939)<br />
Anthologies<br />
Jewish Kingdoms, anthology of Yiddish<br />
literature edited by Rachel Ertel<br />
Anthology of Judaism, edited by Francine Cicurel<br />
Trans<strong>la</strong>tions<br />
Light of the Eternal by Hasdaï Crescas<br />
Pirké Avoth (Maxims from the Fathers),<br />
with notes by Marcus Leehman<br />
Hok le Israël<br />
Media watch<br />
Against anti-Semitism and Holocaust <strong>de</strong>nial<br />
The Rachel and Jacob<br />
Gordin Foundation for<br />
school buildings<br />
The Gordin Foundation<br />
brings together the<br />
main partners involved<br />
in financing Jewish<br />
school buildings.<br />
It is presi<strong>de</strong>d over<br />
by David <strong>de</strong> Rothschild<br />
and is housed by the<br />
Foundation for the<br />
Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong>,<br />
within the framework<br />
of a partnership with<br />
the FSJU and other<br />
foundations.
Projects<br />
<strong>la</strong>unched by<br />
the Foundation<br />
The Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
has, in certain cases, initiated projects.<br />
Examples of several Foundation projects<br />
National tribute to the Righteous of France<br />
Pantheon, January 2007: Ceremony and instal<strong>la</strong>tion<br />
of a p<strong>la</strong>que <strong>de</strong>dicated to the Righteous of France.<br />
Renovation of the Ju<strong>de</strong>nrampe<br />
The p<strong>la</strong>ce where convoys disembarked<br />
at Auschwitz-Birkenau between June 1942 and May 1944<br />
New French edition of the Album d’Auschwitz<br />
Reference document on the fate of Jews<br />
in Auschwitz-Birkenau<br />
A<strong>la</strong>ddin Project to counter Holocaust <strong>de</strong>nial<br />
Trans<strong>la</strong>tion of important books on the Holocaust<br />
into Arabic and Persian; and a multilingual website.<br />
Information panel on the Vel d’Hiv roundup<br />
At the Bir-Hakeim metro station,<br />
in partnership with the RATP<br />
Series of public conferences at the<br />
Collège <strong>de</strong> France<br />
With Philippe Burrin, Annette Wieviorka,<br />
Sylvie Lin<strong>de</strong>perg, Christopher R. Browning…<br />
“<strong>Mémoire</strong>s Vives” radio broadcast on RCJ<br />
A program about projects and topics linked to the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
and the transmission of the Jewish culture today.<br />
www.memoiresvives.net
“Testimonies<br />
of the <strong>Shoah</strong>”<br />
series<br />
T<br />
he “Testimonies of the <strong>Shoah</strong>” series, initiated<br />
by Serge K<strong>la</strong>rsfeld, gathers stories of<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> survivors that have never been published<br />
or are no longer avai<strong>la</strong>ble. These testimonies are<br />
reviewed by a reading committee consisting of<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> specialists and historians. Thanks to this<br />
series, published by Le Manuscrit, the Foundation<br />
is contributing to the collection and preservation<br />
of witness accounts.<br />
Selected testimonies published<br />
Testimonies from <strong>de</strong>portees<br />
I Was Sixteen Years Old at Pitchipoï,<br />
Denise Toros-Marter<br />
Thirst For Life Against the Death Factory,<br />
Régine Skorka-Jacubert<br />
I Was Twelve Years Old at Bergen-Belsen,<br />
Albert Bigielman<br />
Testimonies from hid<strong>de</strong>n children<br />
Two Square Meters, Fanny and David Sauleman<br />
Forbid<strong>de</strong>n Lives, Mireille Boccara<br />
Testimonies of prisoners in France<br />
J<strong>our</strong>nal of a prisoner, Benjamin Schatzman<br />
Escapee from Vel d’Hiv, Anna Traube<br />
Militant stories and historical books<br />
My Twenty Years With the OSE, Jenny Mas<strong>our</strong>-Ratner<br />
Six Months Un<strong>de</strong>r the Boot, Paul Ghez<br />
Complete catalogue avai<strong>la</strong>ble at<br />
www.fondationshoah.org
The <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
Memorial<br />
The Foundation for the Memory of the <strong>Shoah</strong><br />
provi<strong>de</strong>s financial support for the operation and<br />
<strong>de</strong>velopment of the <strong>Shoah</strong> Memorial in Paris, the<br />
leading archive and documentation center on the<br />
Holocaust in Europe.<br />
With funding from the Foundation,<br />
the <strong>Shoah</strong> Memorial has accomplished<br />
numerous projects:<br />
– Construction of the Wall of Names<br />
(listing the 76,000 names of Jewish<br />
<strong>de</strong>portees from France), and the Wall<br />
of the Righteous (listing the names<br />
of the 2,700 French people recognized<br />
as “Righteous Among the Nations”)<br />
– Renovation and expansion of the main building<br />
– Development of educational<br />
and training activities<br />
– Acquisition of archives<br />
– Creation of a permanent exhibition,<br />
organization of temporary exhibitions<br />
and a program of cultural activities<br />
– Development of activities<br />
all around France and abroad<br />
– Commitment to the creation of a history<br />
and memorial center at Drancy
Editorial director<br />
Philippe Allouche<br />
Editor<br />
Rachel Rimmer<br />
Art director<br />
les <strong>de</strong>signers anonymes<br />
Trans<strong>la</strong>tion<br />
Lisa Davidson<br />
Photographs<br />
Cover<br />
Tarlov, Po<strong>la</strong>nd, 1936, Weisfeld family<br />
© Max Wajsbrot personal archives<br />
Solidarity<br />
FSJF library in Marseille, 1940-1942<br />
© Fédération <strong>de</strong>s Sociétés<br />
Juives <strong>de</strong> France<br />
Memory<br />
Felix Nussbaum exhibition<br />
at the MAHJ, Jew at a Window, 1943,<br />
Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück<br />
© ADAGP, Paris 2010<br />
History<br />
Bavaria, Germany, 1945,<br />
Death march after the evacuation<br />
of the Dachau camp<br />
© USHMM / CDJC<br />
Education<br />
School trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau<br />
© Collège André Malraux, Paron<br />
Jewish Culture<br />
Pentateuque, Germany, 1446<br />
© Séminaire Israélite <strong>de</strong> France<br />
Collection<br />
Authors of “testimonies”<br />
© personal archives, FMS<br />
Projets initiated by the Foundation<br />
Panel on the Vel d’Hiv roundup<br />
p<strong>la</strong>ced at the Bir Hakeim metro station<br />
© FMS, David Amar<br />
<strong>Shoah</strong> Memorial<br />
Entrance to the <strong>Shoah</strong> Mémorial<br />
© Vincent Pfrunner