Commemoration of the roundup of 6 April 1944, opening of the exhibition "L'année 1943 à la Colonie, dans les collections de la Maison d'Izieu" and round tables
Following the opening of the exhibition, a round-table discussion was held to examine the construction of the memory of Maison d'Izieu from 1993 to the present day: "30 years after the presidential decree which made Maison d'Izieu a place of national memory: where do we stand?
The new exhibition "The year 1943 at the Colony, in the collections of the Maison d'Izieu" sketches the daily life of this first year at the Maison d'Izieu through documents such as souvenir photos, administrative or private letters, and testimonies.
The 6th of April 2023 will be an exceptional event which will bring together prestigious personalities: - Diane Popowski-Fenster, former child of the Colonie d'Izieu in 1943 Serge Klarsfeld, lawyer and president of the FFDJF (sons and daughters of the Deported Jews of France) - Pierre-André Wiltzer, son of the sub-prefect of Belley in 1943 - Rima Abdul Malak, Minister of Culture (to be confirmed)
> The new temporary exhibition of originals on life in the Colony in 1943 will be inaugurated in the museum's Zlatin gallery; > the historians Pierre Nora, Henry Rousso, Anne Grynberg and Henry Rousso, the architects François Guiguet and hélène Waysbord-Loing and the museographers who worked on the renovation and fitting out of the house to make it a unique place of remembrance of the Shoah were present to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Colonie and the 30th anniversary of the presidential decree in 1993.
MEETINGS AT THE MUSEUM 30 years after the presidential decree that made the Maison d'Izieu a place of national remembrance: where do we stand?
2:00-2:45 pm: Round-table 1 How have historians, architects and museographers approached the development of one of the first places of memory dedicated to the Shoah?
With the historians : Pierre Birnbaum and Henry Rousso ; the architect François Guiguet and Hélène Waysbord-Loing, former adviser to the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand Moderation: Brigitte Sion, President of the Scientific Council of the Maison d'Izieu
3.15pm-4pm: A programme recorded by France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes What is the role of a place of memory today?
With Dominique Vidaud, director of the Maison d'Izieu, Olivier Lalieu, historian at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Sophie Elizéon, interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred, Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Brigitte Sion, President of the Scientific Council of the Maison d'Izieu Presentation: Bérangère Bourgeot, journalist at France Rhône-Alpes
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Ouverture
Thursday 6 April 2023 from 11am to 4pm. 11:00 - 11:15: Gathering in front of the Brégnier-Cordon monument 11.30am - 12.15pm: Gathering in front of the Maison d'Izieu 12:15 - 15:00: Discovery of the exhibition 3:00 - 3:45 pm: How have historians, architects and museographers approached the development of one of the first places of memory dedicated to the Shoah? What are the debates that have inevitably marked the conception of this "memorial"? 14h-14h45 : Round table n°1 How have historians, architects and museographers approached the development of one of the first places of memory dedicated to the Shoah? 3.15pm-4pm: A programme recorded by France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes What is the role of a place of memory today?
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Commemoration of the roundup of 6 April 1944, opening of the exhibition "L'année 1943 à la Colonie, dans les collections de la Maison d'Izieu" and round tables
