Comments on: Jewish Paris: Deportation Memorial, Shoah Memorial, Vel d’Hiv Memorial https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/ Discover Travel Explore Encounter France and Paris Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Emily Kuriloff https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-40497 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:09:52 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-40497 I would like to make a contribution in honor of my family, Victims of the Shoah, deported from Paris to Drancy, and then to Auschwitz, in July 1942. Their names are Jacques ( Yankel) and Esther (Sciare) Hazenberg.

]]> By: doLst https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-38262 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:23:50 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-38262 Last September, I visited Paris. It was my first time leaving the United States. On a walk with my girlfriend from Rue de la Convention to the Eiffel Tower, I was idly playing Pokémon Go. One of the Pokéstops was a glass mosaic on the front of a school. I was interested in this, so I wandered over to it. Once there, I looked up and saw a plaque like the one above. Curious and wanting to exercise my skills at reading French, I started reading it, thinking it little more than another historical marker.
As I read, my heart began to sink. I realized for the first time that I was actually standing on the ground where this thing I had only read about in books and seen in documentaries had actually happened. I tried and failed to fight back tears as I translated and read out loud, knowing children were ripped away from their rightful homes and schools where they were supposed to be safe, and carted off to die. And it had happened right where I stood.
On another trip around the city, I found yet another space dedicated to Holocaust victims. A wall filled with names that would take a day to read listed only 15 children who had escaped.
While the vast majority of my first trip out of the US was incredible and enjoyable, I will forever hold close the solemnity and gravity of these spaces. Ne les oublions jamais!

]]> By: Paul https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-35937 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 23:56:37 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-35937 I will be looking for the names of my grandparents ànd my father’s sister when i visit there in December. Visiting the Vel d’hiv and Paying my respect is all that there is left that i can do.

]]> By: Henriette Moëd Roth https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-32962 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:59:23 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-32962 Many of my relatives, alas, are listed on this Memorial.

]]> By: Gary Lee Kraut https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-32782 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:34:29 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-32782 In reply to Amy Weinstein.

You should contact the memorial directly to inquire about access to their database: http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/

]]> By: Amy Weinstein https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-32778 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:47:43 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-32778 Is there a list online of the names?

]]> By: Janet Hulstrand https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-4082 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:03:16 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-4082 Beautiful and incredibly important, the work that has been done to preserve and share the story of this terrible period of human history, and to respect and honor the victims of violence. And this is a beautiful article documenting that work. Thank you for writing it.

]]> By: Jon Johnsen https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-4045 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:02:07 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-4045 No comment can express my revulsion of the anti-Semitism revealed by the atrocities of the Third Reich.

I have visited most of the sites described above.

Rest in peace.

]]> By: Ellen Lebelle https://francerevisited.com/2014/03/jewish-paris-the-deportation-memorial-the-shoah-memorial-and-the-holocaust-center/#comment-4030 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:22:57 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=9200#comment-4030 The Museum of Jewish Art and History’s permanent exhibit is about the longevity of Jewish presence in France, with ancient tombstones, the old Torahs and printed material from the beginning of printing. There’s a good section of the exhibit on traditional dress from French North Africa and a good section on the Dreyfus affair. In the middle of the staircase in the exhibition area, there is a research center. If the interest is the holocaust, then, yes, the Holocaust Center is the place to go, but for a more general view, this museum is good.
The building has gone through many transformations. It started out as a “hôtel particulier”, but became the “mairie” for the 3rd arrondissment after the revolution. Then, it became a factory building, with shops and workshops on the ground level and there were workers’ quarters built on top of the original building. In the restoration, those were taken down, of course.
The stone staircase near the entrance was restored to the original plans by “compagnons du devoir” with stone from the quarry used originally. If you take a look at the stone, try to figure out which are new and which are original.

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