Jews lived in Roman Lugdunum but disappeared from Lyon because of the expulsions. It was only under the reign of Louis XV that a community was re-created with immigrants from Comtat Venaissin and Alsace. The region is associated primarily with World War II and the French Resistance. The notorious war criminal Klaus Barbie, who was tried in 1986, was the head of the Lyon Gestapo.
Until 4 May 2025 at 2.30pm at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère The museum offers a guided tour of its permanent exhibition every first Sunday of the month. The ...
12 November 2024 |
Until 21 December 2024 at the National Memorial of Montluc’s jail This exhibition, produced in partnership with the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), ...
12 November 2024 |
Until 11 January 2025 at CHRD A tour in which first-hand accounts and objects from the period provide a better understanding of the complexity of the actions of the Lyon Resistance and the issues ...
12 November 2024 |
23 November, 8.30pm at the FSJU Rhône-Alpes As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, Mahaleb draws on the sounds and pains of the past to propose a musical ...
23 September 2024 |
3 November 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This tour, offered every first Sunday of the month, allows participants to discover how the Second World War ...
23 September 2024 |
31 August 2024, from 2pm to midnight in the 11 museums of the Isère département During this festive day, the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère (Isère Resistance and ...
24 July 2024 |
8 September 2024, at 3pm In clear contrast to the emancipation of the 1920s and the suffragettes, the Vichy regime tried to confine women to the social role of wife and mother. This was not ...
24 July 2024 |
6 June 2024 This play by Robert Antelme, adapted and performed by Anne Coutureau and directed by Patrice Le Cadre, shares the author’s account of his captivity in Germany in 1945. A ...
13 May 2024 |
Numerous dates until 25 August 2024 Lyon was home to some great Resistance networks, but also to some dark representatives of the collaboration movement. This guided tour, organised by CHRD, ...
13 May 2024 |
17 April 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This animated film by Véra Belmont is an adaptation of the poignant comic strip Second Generation by Michel ...
18 March 2024 |
Until 29 June 2024 at the Montluc Memorial This exhibition features works by visual artist Nicolas Daubanes. One of them was created for the occasion, following an immersion in the Montluc ...
18 March 2024 |
Until 8 September 2024 at the CHRD This exhibition is an opportunity to rediscover the impact of the Second World War on women. Both in terms of their support for the war effort and their ...
18 March 2024 |
28 January 2024 at the Espace des Cultures Juives in Grenoble Author Judith Elmaleh will be on hand to talk about her novel “Une Reine”. The book is based on the story of her ...
8 January 2024 |
At the CHRD This exhibition devoted to the great hero of the Resistance allows us to (re)discover the man through the eyes of those who knew him or studied him. These include friends and family, ...
8 January 2024 |
From 22 January to 1 February 2024 in Grenoble and Lyon The lack of understanding between French and Israeli Jews is legendary and has even inspired cult sketches in both countries. Marco ...
7 January 2024 |
Until 8 July 2024 This bold exhibition tackles the complex question of how to share the memory of the Second World War to children. The Museum invites parents and children to explore four stories ...
28 November 2023 |
Until 23 December 2023 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial This exhibition, produced by the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), provides a better ...
28 November 2023 |
At the CHRD in Lyon 80 years after the death of the Resistance leader, this exhibition at the CHRD provides an opportunity to learn more about the man through the eyes of those who knew or ...
28 November 2023 |
November 18, 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère A participatory workshop lets visitors create posters based on the front pages of newspapers from the period. ...
25 August 2023 |
September 23, 2023 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mémorial de Montluc The last Auschwitz survivor in Lyon, Claude Bloch, now 94, is continuing his work of remembrance, passing on his story and ...
25 August 2023 |
At the CHRD Lyon Nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon for his particularly brutal methods, Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1943 to 1945, responsible for hunting down Resistance ...
25 August 2023 |
Until 6 October 2023 at the Maison d’Izieu Memorial Museum To mark the 80th anniversary of the opening of the “Colonie des enfants réfugiés de l’Hérault”, the ...
3 July 2023 |
Until 30 September 2023 at the Lieu de Mémoire Chambon-sur-Lignon In 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the first pages of La Grande Rafle du Vel d’Hiv by Claude Lévy and Paul ...
3 July 2023 |
Until 3 September 2023 This themed trail allows visitors to (re)discover the important places and figures, famous or not, in the history of Lyon’s Resistance. The buildings, steles and ...
3 July 2023 |
1 September 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This film, directed by Jonathan Barré in 2016, presents the adventures of Max and Léon, two childhood friends, ...
3 July 2023 |
From 23 April 2023 to 3 September 2023 A city torn between the actions of monsters and heroes during the war, many places in Lyon allow you to (re)discover this history, in particular some ...
17 April 2023 |
24 June 2023 With the gradual disappearance of the last survivors of the Shoah, these testimonies are all the more precious. Even more so in this period of rising populism. Claude Bloch, now 94 ...
17 April 2023 |
30th March 2023 The Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Isère joins forces with the Cinémathèque of Grenoble to present Volker Schlöndorff’s classic film (1979) based on a book by ...
15 February 2023 |
From 4 March to 17 June 2023 The tour will take place in the 1st and 2nd arrondissements of Lyon, in order to highlight the actions of this great Resistance fighter and to present the other ...
15 February 2023 |
From September 4 to December 18, 2022 at the Résistance Center of Lyon Through the 1st and 2nd arrondissements, this tour follows in the footsteps of Jean Moulin. Each stage provides an ...
10 August 2022 |
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