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TOP SIGHT
MÉMORIAL DE LA SHOAH
No single sight in Paris is as exhaustive or emotionally exhausting as this. Secreted in
what began in 1956 as a memorial to the unknown Jewish martyr, the Mémorial de la
Shoah is now one of Europe's most important Holocaust museums and documenta-
tion centres. A vast permanent collection and well-thought-out temporary exhibits all
pertain to the Holocaust and the German occupation of parts of France and Paris dur-
ing WWII.
The entrance to the Mémorial de la Shoah remembers the victims of the Shoah - a
Hebrew word meaning 'catastrophe' and synonymous in France with the Holocaust -
with the Mur des Noms (Wall of Names; 2006), a wall inscribed with the names of
76,000 Jews, including 11,000 children, deported from France to Nazi extermination
camps during WWII. Deep in the appropriately sombre, bunker-like building lies the
crypt and tomb to the unknown Jewish martyr - all six million Jews with no grave of
their own.
DON'T MISS
Mur des Noms
Crypt
Guided tours in English, 3pm second Sunday of month
PRACTICALITIES
17 rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, 4e
10am-6pm Sun-Wed & Fri, to 10pm Thu
St-Paul
