The “Stolen Memory” exhibition stops in Cahors, for the memory of the victims of deportation

The traveling exhibition “Stolen Memory” stops at Cahors of June 8 to 18, 2024, symbolically installed in front of the entrance to the future Museum of the Resistance, rue Mendès France, which should open its doors in a few months. This exhibition, installed in a shipping container, is the fruit of the work of the Arolsen Archives, the international center on Nazi persecution.

The most important information about the victims of Nazism

The Arolsen Archives has the most comprehensive archives in the world on the victims and survivors of Nazism. The collection contains information on approximately 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO’s Memory of the World (including Schindler’s List).

This Stolen Memory exhibition evokes the personal objects of victims of deportation, recovered by the Arolsen Archives, and which the institution strives to return to the victims or their families. “Keeping memory alive, elucidating the past, and as far as possible doing justice is the goal of the Stolen Memory project” said Theresa Niesters, exhibition coordinator, during the inauguration in Cahors on Thursday June 6, 2024.

Ten objects and their journey to return them to families

This exhibition shows 10 personal objects of deportation victims recovered by the Arolsen Archives, and the journey to return them to their families. They thus recovered less than 2,500 objects from victims, some of which were able to be returned to their relatives or their owner shortly after the war. Since 2016, members of the archives, supported by volunteers and associations, have resumed research work to return these effects to the families of the victims. More than 900 families have been found and this painstaking work continues.

Free, self-guided or guided tours

This exhibition can be seen until Tuesday June 18 in Cahors, then will travel to Toulouse, Montpellier and other cities in France. Three other containers of the same type tour the whole of Europe. It is possible to visit it freely every day from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., or to take part in the guided tours which help you understand the historical work of the Arolsen Archives.

Meet at 3 p.m. on Friday 7, Saturday 8, Wednesday 12, Friday 14, Saturday 15, Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 June 2024.

Free visits, without registration.

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