Wall of the Names

The wall of the Names is a monument of memory located on the square of the Mémorial of Shoah in the district of the Marais at Paris. The wall of the Names is a whole of three stone walls of Jerusalem on which the names of 76 are engraved; 000 Jews, including 11.000 off-set children “of France within the framework of the Nazi plan of extermination of the European Judaism with the collaboration of the Vichy government”.

The majority of the people whose name is reproduced on these walls, were assassinated between 1942 and 1944 with Auschwitz-Birkenau, the others in the camps of Sobibor, Majdanek and Kaunas-Reval. The victims are registered per year of deportation, in the alphabetical order of the names.

This monument was inaugurated the January 25th 2005, in the presence of the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac. It was opened with the public two days later, with the exact date of the sixtieth birthday of the release of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. This monument was created by the architects Jean-Pierre Jouve and François Pin.

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Memorial of Shoah

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