Sabine Zlatin inaugurated the Maison d'Izieu memorial museum on April 24, 1994, dedicated to the memory of the deported children.
On April 24, 1994, Sabine Zlatin, then 87 years old, presided over the official inauguration of the Maison d'Izieu as a national memorial and museum dedicated to the children who had lived and were arrested there fifty years earlier. President François Mitterrand attended the ceremony, underscoring the national significance of the site.
Zlatin had spent decades advocating for the preservation of the site as a place of memory and education, working to ensure that the identities and stories of the 44 deported children and their caretakers would not be forgotten. The museum was established on the very grounds of the former colony, transforming a site of tragedy into an institution of remembrance and historical education.
The memorial serves as both a historical archive and an educational center, hosting exhibitions, school visits, and research into the Holocaust in France, with particular focus on the persecution of children. It stands as one of the most significant Holocaust memorial sites in France, alongside institutions like the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris.
This achievement represented the culmination of Zlatin's decades-long mission following the war: to ensure that the world would never forget the innocent victims of Izieu, and to transform personal grief and survivor's guilt into a lasting institution of collective memory and moral education for future generations.