Free visit of the Cercil and the temporary exhibition

Name: Free visit of the Cercil and the temporary exhibition
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cercil musée - Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Cercil - Musée Mémorial des enfants du Vel d'Hiv

Discover the permanent exhibition of the Cercil which retraces the history of the three internment camps installed in the Loiret: Jargeau, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande.
The temporary exhibition "Tomorrow we leave" - Letters of internees of the Vel d'Hiv in Auschwitz are letters, treasures of families, disturbing testimonies of humanity behind names and numbers. Written at the Vel d'Hiv in Drancy, Loiret, these letters resonate, 80 years later, the voices of their authors in the places of memory of the Shoah in France.

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.