An exhibition devoted to the many Holocaust Museum Memorials that have been opened in recent years in Europe is one of a series of events being held to coincide with the opening of a modern new Holocaust Memorial Museum at Drancy, outside Paris, the site of a major World War II transit camp for Jews being deported to death camps in the east. The exhibit, which runs until March 2013, includes reference to such Memorial Museums in France, Germany, Poland and elsewhere, often at the sites of concentration camps, death camps or other Holocaust locations.
The new center in Drancy was opened September 21 by French President Francois Hollande, as a branch of the French Shoah Memorial that opened in downtown Paris in 2005.
Supported by the private Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah and designed by the Swiss architect Roger Diener, it is a spare, glass-walled five-story building that includes conference rooms, an educational center, a documentation center and a permanent exhibition on the history of the Drancy camp, where 63,000 out of the 76,000 Jews deported from France in World War II were interned before being sent off to their deaths. The new Center overlooks the Cité de la Muette, a housing project that the Germans confiscated, where the Jews were held before deportation. (The building were returned and transformed into public housing after the war.)
Another Holocaust memorial museum was also dedicated this month in Aix-en-Provence, in southern France.
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we as Halabja Monument and peace museum would like to send a staff to see the mentioned Memorial.
our Monument is been founded since 2003 as a symbol for 5000 chemical victims, our city bombed by former Iraqi regime on 16/3/1988 by chemical weapons that caused 5000 killing and 10000 injuries among civilians.
so we would be pleased to google relationship with you and visit your museum there by some of our survivors of chemical weapon.
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yours
Halabja Monument
Kurdistan of Iraq
Mahmood Hama Ameen
Public relation of the Monument