I would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their support of our exhibition Faces Behind Barbed Wire: The Rivesaltes Internment Camp Memorial which ran from March 21, 2010 - May 6, 2010, at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in St. Louis: Dr. Denis Peschanski and the CNRS in Paris, Frederic Raphael, Marianne Petit and the Musée Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, Fonds August Bohny, Crispin Brooks, Ita Gordon and Tina Minh of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Professor Alejandro Baer of the Universität Bayreuth/Universidad Complutenese de Madrid, Marie-Anne Toledano - Cultural Attaché at the French Consulate in Chicago, Dan Reich, Jean Cavender and the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in St. Louis, La Compagnie des Phares et Balise, David Eidelman and the Alliance Française de St. Louis, Professor Jean-Louis Pautrot and Saint Louis University, Professor Pier Marton and Washington University in St. Louis, Moris Farhi, Daniel Asa Rose, Homewood Suites, Captions Incorporated, Documentary Educational Resources, Byrpn Kerman and Sauce Magazine, Jacqueline Veuve, France Today, Jorge Amat, and Congregation Kol Am. I am truly grateful to the Rivesaltes survivor community for their support and assistance.
In June 2010, my wife Rabbi Séverine Haziza-Sokol lead an educational mission comprised of members of Congregation Kol Am to Rivesaltes, France.
They were joined for this event by members of the Communaute Juive Liberale - Grenoble. A special thank you to Dr. Peschanski and Marianne Petit for their extraordinary work. The memorial will be one of Europe's largest Holocaust memorials. The museum also focuses on the suffering and internment of Spaniards and Algerians at Rivesaltes. The memorial is astonishing and consists of the only traces of the some 200 internment camps that operated in France prior to and during World War II. This important project has been the subject of profiles in The New York Times and Washington Post. Their work deserves our support. Please consult the following links for more information: http://www.cg66.fr/52-le-memorial-de-rivesaltes.htm
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