The Shoah Memorial opens its doors free of charge at night, on the occasion of the 20th edition of Museum Night in Paris and Île-de-France. Discover the program for this special evening, organized on Saturday May 18, 2024.
Every year, the Museum Night allows us to rediscover our heritage through a wonderful program of exceptional evenings, free visits and original activities. Paris and the whole of Île-de-France then take advantage of this opportunity to reveal its secrets. Don’t miss the next scheduled date for this Saturday May 18, 2024.
Located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the Shoah Memorial is a museum and a place dedicated to the memory of genocide of the Jews when Second World War. This museum ofHistory brings together numerous testimonies, archives, photographs, texts, videos, audio recordings, which explain the History of the Jews in France, the rise of Nazism, the crimes perpetrated during these years of war.
An introduction pedagogic and adapted for children, and shocking elements for adults: this museum is a place open to all. So want to find out what awaits you for Museum Night?
On the program for Museum Night 2024 at the Paris Shoah Memorial
- Interpretation of “The Book of My Mother” by Albert Cohen by Patrick Timsit
Saturday May 18, 9:00 p.m.For more than 30 years, Patrick Timsit matured the project of interpreting this story by Albert Cohen published in 1954.
Season after season, he read, reread, annotated and ruminated on this work for which he had a real passion. A work which, as he says, speaks directly to us, the “sons of living mothers”.
“No son really knows that his mother will die and all sons become angry and impatient with their mothers, the fools so soon punished. », writes Albert Cohen in the last pages.
Texts read by Patrick Timsit, actor, accompanied by Nicolas Errera, composer of the original music, Stéfane Goldman, guitar, and Sarah Jacob, cello.
So, we meet at Shoah Memorial for the 20th Museum Nightthe friends ?
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