MÉMORIAL DE LA SHOAH - GARE DE PITHIVIERS

Open all year round. Weekends from 2pm to 6pm. Free guided tour every 1st Sunday of the month at 2.30pm (duration 2h). Free admission.

The Shoah Memorial in Pithiviers, in the former railway station, was inaugurated in 2005. Spanning 400 m², this essential place of meditation tells the story of the Jews ofFrance during the Holocaust, and features a number of temporary exhibitions each year .Moving films recounting the history of the persecution ofEuropean Jews in the 30s and 40s are also shown...Guided tours and various educational workshops are also organized, enabling you to find out about the exclusion of Jews in France, music in the Nazi camps and much more .the memorial also has a bookshop stocked withscientific works , testimonies, essays, biographies, fiction and works for young people, as well as popular and awareness-raising works. On its website, it providesinformation on forthcoming events and a range of downloadable brochures. A place of choice for a better understanding of this dark period in history!