Urban artist and muralist C215, painted a portrait of Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, 1927-2017 (she was the minister of health of France and was responsible for legal abortion becoming available in France in 1975. She is only one of three women buried in the Pantheon) on a mailbox across the street from the Shoah Memorial Museum in the Marais. The museum decided to extend the project and gave C215 carte blanche to him to paint other mailboxes. The portraits are of 14 children who were rounded up on June 16 and 17, 1942 in Paris and were deported and killed in in the Auschwitz concentration camp. A total of 11,600 children in France were deported by the Nazis and died in concentration camps during WW II. A collection of photographs from the Children’s Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld and the Shoah Memorial were used by C215 to inspire the portraits.
The eight mailboxes with 14 names and portraits are located throughout the Marais and if you click on the link below, there’s a Google map you can follow to see them. The link also tells the stories and history of each child.
https://1942.memorialdelashoah.org/exposition-c215.html
Simone Veil-Allée des Justes / Rue du Grenier sur l’eau 75004
21 rue Saint-Louis en L’Île 75004
Corner of rue Beautreillis & la rue Charles V 75004
127 rue Saint Antoine, 75004- by Saint Paul Metro
rue du Pas de la Mule, near Place des Vosges
rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and corner of rue Aubriot 75004
10 rue de Moussy 75004
22 rue des Archives 75004
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