Exposition Victor Klemperer, la langue confisquée, die geraubte Sprache

Exposition itinérante créée par le Centre européen du résistant déporté, exposé du 26 avril au 26 septembre 2009 ;  à la Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg (BNUS) du 9 novembre au 20 janvier ; au Mémorial d'Ebensee.

• Dossier de presse
• Interventions lors des conférences à la BNUS : Monsieur Albert Poirot, Monsieur Frédérice Edel, Madame Marie-Claire Vittoux
• Reportage photo
• Livret d'accompagnement virtuel de l'exposition

To mark Europe Day on 9 May 2007 and the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Centre hosted an exhibition about one of Europe's founding fathers, Robert SCHUMAN, organised by the Moselle Departmental Archives.

In the lobby of the European Centre from 5 to 13 May.
In French and German.

On 9 May the European Centre welcomed 120 high school students from the six original Treaty of Rome signatory countries.

To mark the 23rd Heritage Days, the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members enabled approximately 1,000 visitors to take part in a living, shared memory by participating in the event " Planting Trees of Remembrance " sponsored by Marie José Chombart de Lauwe, Simone Gournay, Pierre Sudreau and Boris Pahor .

Visitors were invited to listen to the thoughts and testimonials of great men as well as anonymous individuals and to respond to them by leaving their own thoughts or memories on a stylised tree. Despite the rain and fog, they often asked to visit the camp historic site before returning to the European Centre to share their thoughts, a sign that the preservation of this place of remembrance is not only crucial to transmitting history, but also to raising awareness of the part everybody can play in education, vigilance and good citizenship.

Most of the visitors were French, but the European Centre also welcomed representatives of Luxembourg's army, teachers from Belgium, Australian, British, Canadian, Italian and Swiss visitors, German schoolchildren and others.

Each left with a Ginkgo biloba seed to plant. May many trees, symbols of resistance and longévity, grow up tall and bear witness to a living, shared history and memory! An American red oak set up in the European Centre's lobby during the Heritage Days will be planted at the Struthof site.

The European Centre of Departed Resistance Members has hosted its first exhibition, "Night and Fog: Jean-Jacques Morvan" since France's president inaugurated it on 3 November 2005. It was organised in partnership with the Centre National Jean Moulin in Bordeaux (depository of the works) and support from the Association des amis de Jean-Jacques Morvan.

The public saw 11 paintings and 12 works on paper from the Centre National Jean Moulin's collection and a video showing works that were not included in the exhibition.

The "Night and Fog" collection
The "Night and Fog" collection includes nearly 70 works: paintings, which are often very big, works on paper (charcoal, gouache, India ink), three sculptures, a medal, etc. They date from between 1945 and 1975, although the most prolific period was between 1972 and 1975.

Jean-Jacques Morvan (1928-2005)
was a writer born in Brittany and a refugee in Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, during the exodus. He belonged to a first-aid team during the Liberation of Paris in 1944, the year hed decided to become a painter. In 1945 he volunteered at the Lutetia in Paris to help deportees coming back from the camps.

In October 1945 he enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. His first exhibition took place in Paris in 1951. He showed in b New York, Quebec, Mexico, Tokyo and other places before becoming the official Navy painter in 1977. In 1993 he made a bronze sculpture of Jean Moulin's face for his monument in Orgon on the "Jean Moulin Road" between Saint-Andiol and Salon-de-Provence. He was admitted to the Legion of Honour.

Jean-Jacques Morvan died in 2005, shortly after voicing the desire to have his works displayed at the European Centre of Departed Resistance Members in Struthof.

For information.
Exhibition designer: Pierre-Louis Faloci
Coordination and editorial concept: Ministry of Defence, general secretariat for administration: Claire Cameron - in charge of the Struthof mission (SGA/DMPA), Valérie Drechsler - director of the European Centre of Departed Resistance Members (SGA/DSPRS)
Video made by the Ministry of Defence, SGA/DMPA, Jacques Robert
26June to 24 December 2006, free admission, every day from 9am to 6pm.

The Ministry of Defence (general secrétariat for administration) is making available to the public the registry of deportees of the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, which can be consulted on an interactive terminal, the first of its kind at a concentration camp memorial in Europe.

It contains all the information gathered about the approximately 52,000 camp deportees (name, registration number, category, nationality, date of arrival at the camp, origin, etc.). The terminal is in the module about KL-Natzweiler deportees in the renovated barracks museum inside the former concentration camp.

The Department of Remembrance, Heritage and Archives basd the interactive terminal on research by the historian Robert Steegmann, who wrote a thesis about Struthof, which he defended at Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg on 13 December 2003. He based his dissertation on the camp's archives, the archives of other camps and first-hand accounts.

This database is a working document. The information recorded was assembled from 1993 on and does not claim to be exhaustive. Additional information that visitors might give could be integrated into the present document after verification.

Bibliography:
R. Steegmann, Struthof, le KL-Natzweiler et ses kommandos : une nébuleuse concentrationnaire des deux côtés du Rhin 1941-1945, La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg, 2005
R. Steegmann, Le Struthof KL-Natzweiler, Histoire d'un camp de concentration en Alsace annexée 1941-1945, Kaléidoscope,ed. La Nuée Bleue in partnershipe with the DMPA, Strasbourg, 2005

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