Shoah Memorial
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Shoah Memorial

Also known as Holocaust Memorial , Mémorial de la Shoah , Mémorial du martyr juif inconnu , Unknown Jewish Martyr Memorial

Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France

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    Coordinates: 48.85490, 2.35619
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In 1957, ashes of victims of the Nazi death camps in France and of the Warsaw Ghetto were interred in dirt from Israel in a crypt located in a district of Paris which had had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II. In 2005, the area was renovated and the Holocaust museum was opened. A circular memorial was erected above the crypt. On it are inscribed the names of the death camps and the Warsaw Ghetto.

Surrounding the memorial are walls covered with the names of the French Jews who were deported and murdered by the Nazis. Other walls depict, symbolically in 7 bas-reliefs, the camps and the persecution the Jews experienced. One wall lists the names of over 3000 people, either French or who worked in France, who have been awarded the title "Righteous Among the Nations": a title awarded to non-Jewish people who helped save Jews during the war.

In 1957, ashes of victims of the Nazi death camps in France and of the Warsaw Ghetto were interred in dirt from Israel in a crypt located in a district of Paris which had had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II. In 2005, the area was renovated and the Holocaust museum was opened. A circular memorial was erected above the crypt. On it are inscribed the names of the death camps and the Warsaw Ghetto.

Surrounding the memorial are walls covered with the names of the French Jews who were deported and murdered by the Nazis. Other walls depict, symbolically in 7 bas-reliefs, the camps and the persecution the Jews experienced. One wall lists the names of over 3000 people, either French or who worked in France, who have been awarded the title "Righteous Among the Nations": a title awarded to non-Jewish people who helped save Jews during the war.

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  • Added: 21 May 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2261995