Mur des Justes

The Mur des Justes, also known as the Wall of Names, is a memorial on the forecourt of the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris's Marais district. Carved into three walls of Jerusalem stone are the names of 76,000 Jewish victims who were deported from France as part of the Nazi drive to exterminate the Jews. Most of them were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1942 and 1944; others died in additional camps. The inscriptions are arranged by year of deportation and then alphabetically. The memorial, designed by architects François Pin and Jean-Pierre Jouve, was dedicated in 2005 and renovated in 2020. Each year on Yom HaShoah, a 24-hour reading of the names is held here to honor the victims.