"The children of the Vel' d'Hiv'"

Name: "The children of the Vel' d'Hiv'"
Start: 2018-09-15T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cercil musée - Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv

temporary Exhibition(Exposure) realised as part of the commemoration of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

How to evoke the terrible fate(spell) which underwent families stopped(arrested) during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, in July, 1942, then committed in the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande where the children were cruelly separated from their mothers there, then deported in Auschwitz where from no returned. No known photo exists of this event, which was “the paroxysm of the final solution in France”, as well as said Twill Klarsfeld. By his drawings of a big(great) evocative power, Giles Rapaport tells, without words and maybe better than words could not think him, this untenable event and especially the disappearance of this thousand children

About the location

Cercil musée - Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv

45 rue du Bourdon-Blanc, 45000 Orléans

Loiret
Centre-Val de Loire

Centre of history(story) and of report(memory) where is evoked the history(story) of 16 000 Jewish people, among whom 4 400 children, committed between 1941 and 1943 in the camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers before being, for the great majority, murdered in Auschwitz. Hundreds of archive documents, interactive screens, IT borders and numerous stories, accompany subject(words). The visitor also discovers a history(story) too long forgotten by 1 200 Gypsies, among whom 700 children, committed in dreadful conditions to the camp of Jargeau between April, 1941 and December, 1945\. Pedagogic workshops(studios) are organised to lead the young people to think about stakes in this history(story) for our present. Meetings with witnesses(batons) and historians, temporary exhibitions(exposures) and cultural events are regularly programmed, in particular as part of Tuesdays of Cercil. Since May, 2015, Cercil presents its new exhibition(exposure) for theme «With Jews of France and with First World War». This exhibition(exposure) received the label of the Centenarian(Centenary) of First World War.