Mémorial de la Shoah

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Lonely Planet review

Established in 1956, the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr has metamorphosed into the Memorial of the Holocaust and documentation centre after a lengthy renovation. The permanent collection and temporary exhibits relate to the Holocaust and the German occupation of parts of France and Paris during WWII; the film clips of contemporary footage and interviews are heart-rending and the displays instructive and easy to follow.

The actual memorial to the victims of the 'Shoah', a Hebrew word meaning 'catastrophe' and synonymous in France with the Holocaust, stands at the entrance and there is a wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 men, women and children deported from France to Nazi extermination camps. A plaque on the wall of the building opposite on allée des Justes, 4e, recalls that as many as 500 of the 11,000 Jewish children deported by the Germans between 1942 and 1944 lived in the 4e.