Through this free exhibition, the Shoah Memorial pays tribute to the Jews of France who joined French military forces during both world wars. Among them, tens of thousands foreign Jews were enrolled as volunteers in the Foreign Legion, as well as in the French Resistance, the Allied armies, or in the Free French Movement. Some of these volunteers got imprisoned in internment camps in Germany, some others were withdrawn and then persecuted at their return in France. This retrospective goes through painful pages of French History.

“Les engagés volontaires juifs étrangers” exhibition, from November 5^th 2014 to March 8^th 2015.
Open every day, except on Saturday, from 10am to 6pm.
Late opening on Thursday until 10pm.
Free entrance.

Volunteers of the 21^st RMVE (Regiment of Foreign Volunteers) in a barracks at the military training camp of Barcarès (Eastern Pyrenees).
France, 1939-1940. - © Mémorial de la Shoah / UEVACJ-EA.

Mémorial de la Shoah
17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 44 72
contact@memorialdelashoah.org
Metro: Saint-Paul or Hôtel-de-Ville (line 1), or Pont-Marie (line 7).

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