Until 31 August 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance in Limoges
Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible period of the occupation. The daily life of the Brussels teenager during the Second World War is examined in the work of Emile Bravo. His motivations and doubts in the face of the Nazi war machine, and the gradual loss of the young man’s naivety and character in the face of anti-Jewish discrimination and other violence.
https://www.facebook.com/museeresistancelimoges/
Until 12 March 2023 at the Archives départementales du Cher, rue Jean-Marie Heurtault de Lamerville, 18000 Bourges
This exhibition highlights the situation of the thousands of inhabitants of Alsace-Moselle, including hundreds of Jews, who found refuge in the Cher. When arrests took place in the occupied zone, some tried to cross the demarcation line. Many were arrested and executed. Archival documents allow this exhibition to present the paths of these individuals in the underground.
Until 8 January 2024 at the Marc Chagall National Museum
Throughout the year 2023, events will be presented to mark the 50th anniversary of the museum’s birth, on 7 July 1973. The moment when the house desired by the artist welcomed his work dedicated to the cycle of the “Biblical Message”. With its universal message, values and colours. A varied programme is proposed, culminating as it should on the weekend of 7 July 2023.
February 23, 2023 at the Medem Centre
This workshop is led by Salomon Bielasiak by ZOOMTM and follows the one held in January. He will present and translate about twenty Yiddish expressions. These expressions are accompanied by klezmer music and traditional Yiddish songs. The accompaniment is provided by professional singers and musicians.
https://www.centre-medem.org/recevoir-le-programme
March 10 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library
This evening proposed by Annick Prime Margules welcomes Michel Fisbein and Lionel Miller to share, in French and Yiddish, classic jokes and other zygomatic boosters. With, in particular, a classic sketch by Dzigan and Szumacher that every record player owner enjoyed after the war in memory of distant ancestors.
Until 23 July 2023 at the mahJ
150 photographs, archive documents and children’s drawings made by the residents of this colony which served as a refuge for them during the Second World War are presented in this exhibition. Individual drawings, but also complete stories. 105 Jewish children lived there from 1943 to 1944. 44 of these children and 7 animators were rounded up by the Nazis. The drawings were collected by the former director Sabine Zlatin. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Maison d’Izieu.
With the Cercle Vladimir Medem and the Cercle Bernard Lazare.
These visits are organised from the Cercle Bernard Lazare. They allow participants to visit this place located in Médan, recently enlarged with the space dedicated to Dreyfus, in order to discover the link between these two men and their fights.
https://www.cerclebernardlazare.org/agenda
Until 8 May 2023 at the Centre Pompidou
The Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) is one of the most frequented by students and researchers. Between the numerous books chosen and analysed, the public can now discover the strong links between one of the greatest French musicians and his mother tongue. The influence of this language and of those who handled it so well before him. We can see his numerous manuscripts, the evolution of his style and his influences, not only in his writing but also in the other arts that he admired so much and practised, especially painting.
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/sERpg1R
Until 20 February 2023 at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of donations received by the museum from people wishing to bequeath objects that bear witness to this period, the institution is honouring these donors. These transmitters of memory are fighting against hatred and oblivion. Only 1% of the more than 8,000 documents kept in the museum are usually displayed. The renovation of the institution carried out between 2018 and 2020 has made it possible to better appreciate the historical wealth of these objects and the need to present them and honour those who donated them.
http://musee-resistance.haute-garonne.fr/fr/evenements-1/exposition-temporaire.html
16 February 2023
This meeting is part of the Hebraica Thursdays. The theme of the meeting will be the Kings and Prophets of the Bible and will deal in particular with the Court, Justice, agriculture and the army in biblical times.
https://www.hebraica-toulouse.com/
20 February 2023 at the Maimonides Institute
As part of the Maimonides Encounters, this one is proposed around the books Psychotherapy of God and Chérif Mécheri, Prefect of Courage under the Vichy government. These books were written by the famous author who dealt with resilience. This event is organised in partnership with the Librairie Sauramps and will take place in the Salle Pétrarque.
https://www.maimonide-institut.com/agenda
At the Shoah Memorial
This travelling exhibition, consisting of 24 panels, is intended for students from the 3rd to the 12th grade. It looks at the way in which the spirit of the Third Republic and the role of the school in sharing republican and democratic values was shared in the Resistance. These humanist values, rejecting all forms of hatred and discrimination. Philosophically, but also in the actions of teachers and students. Among the documents presented, a handwritten letter from a Jewish student expelled from school, addressed to Marshal Pétain on 9 January 1942.
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 Gunter Grass. A film that made a big impression when it was released, tracing the life of a child who refuses to grow up and take part in the appalling adult world he sees in 1930s Germany.
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 companions who helped him in his missions. This, as well as the circumstances and consequences of his arrest, which took place on 21 June 1943. Steles, but also buildings from that period, recall his history in this city where Resistance fighters and collabos clashed violently.
https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/musee/parcours-urbain/sur-les-pas-de-jean-moulin
March 16 at the Rashi Institute in Troyes
This book is the result of international research work carried out in Troyes in 2019. It was conceived in the framework of a partnership between the Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi and the Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM-CNRS) and published in the prestigious journal Studia Graeco-Arabica.
16 and 17 March 2023 at the headquarters of the Grand Est Region
The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members is organising this event, which brings together a dozen speakers and examines the relationships underlying the association of faith and deportation. In particular, religious practice in the camps. The programme is a continuation of last year’s event on the same themes.
13 February 2023 at the GIL
Joëlle Fiss, Bénédicte Ossipaw-Amsellem and Marc Wuarin, members of GIL, will discuss their experience in Geneva politics, particularly in the field of human rights. This conference is organised by the GIL Cultural Commission.
https://www.gil.ch/evenement/lundi-du-gil-conference-25
28 and 29 March 2023 at the Théâtre de l’Espérance
Kressmann Taylor’s masterpiece evokes the meeting and friendship between two Germans, a Jew and a non-Jew. Their strong bond and the evolution of this friendship and their perception of the historical events in progress. The play is presented by the Hamacom troupe.
15 March 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
A series of cultural events will be held on Wednesday mornings at the Museum. This one will deal with the fate of Jewish refugees in Switzerland from 1935 to 1955 and the help they received.
17 February to 24 September 2023 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam
A series of texts, covering different writing styles, evoke the theme of the author’s identity. By returning to the question of Jewish identity. For there are many ways to answer this question. The documents presented cover four centuries of Dutch Jewish authors. Was this Jewish identity private or publicly known? Did it evolve? And how do we perceive it with our contemporary glasses?
https://jck.nl/en/exhibition/me-jewish
18 March to 11 June 2023 at the Rembrandt Museum
74 works from the Peck Collection are presented for the first time in Europe. The exhibition includes works by Rembrandt, but also by Bol, Maes and their contemporaries. Seven moments in the exhibition focus on the question of why 17th-century artists were so dedicated to drawing. Workshops are offered to enable visitors to familiarise themselves with the techniques of the period.
https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/program-2023/
18 February 2023 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights
This visit allows you to rediscover the architectural heritage of Esch, as well as its history. More specifically, the city centre at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Shoah. The themes of the Nazi occupation, the resistance and the fate of the Jews are addressed. In particular around the Stolpersteine, the memorial stones.
At the Jewish Museum of Latvia
A presentation of these works is proposed to examine how individuals react to tragedies that take place in their vicinity. The exhibition, together with the history of the Riga ghetto, is part of a larger project “Art and the Holocaust: Reflections on a Common Future”. The Latvian artist Belcova conceived these works as a therapy for the vision of the Shoah. Upon her death in 1981, Belcova’s works were bequeathed by her family to the Latvian National Art Museum.
14 February 2023 at the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum
A presentation that will take place in the presence of Dunja Nanut (President of ANED Trieste), Franco Cecotti (Vice President of ANED Trieste), Tristano Matta (historian) and Michelle Visentini (great-granddaughter of Rosalia Poropat). A reconstruction of Rosalia Poropat’s story is carried out, from her arrest in her town of Dane, her incarceration in the prison of Trieste and her deportation to Auschwitz and then Ravensbruck. There she wrote the names of 51 fellow prisoners on a roll of paper during forced labour at Siemens. The scroll is now in the Risiera di San Sabba Museum.
https://www.museoebraicotrieste.it/en/2023/02/06/rosalia-poropat-2/
12 March 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Ireland
Brazilian researcher Denise Sabino Villanova will talk about contemporary Sephardim and their attachment to their roots and cultural heritage. Going back to the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, she will analyse how to preserve one’s faith under threat. With a desire to understand the evolution of Sephardic history and improve the understanding of this identity in our contemporary world.
From 6 February 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Greece
A project with five other European partners: Centropa Zentrum (Hamburg), Centropa Alipitvany (Hungary), Jugend & Kulturprojekt (Dresden), Fundacja Galicia Jewish Heritage Institute (Poland) and Mozaika (Spain). It aims to strengthen the memory of 20th century Jewish history and the Shoah. Events will be organised in the form of workshops, educational seminars and public participations.
https://www.jewishmuseum.gr/en/launch-of-a-new-two-year-european-project-called-herstories
28 March 2023 at the Museo Sefardi
This club brings together literary encounters once a month to discuss a book and share impressions of it. An event that takes place in the museum’s library. The one on 28 March will be the first in a series and will be dedicated to Luisa Carnés’ tea room.
https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/msefardi/en/actividades/agenda/2023/febrero/taller-lectura.html
In February 2023 at the EHC
A kidush celebrating the holiday of Tu bishvat is being organised by the Edinburgh community. The event will feature Rachel Caplan, a producer who promotes environmental issues in the arts. The links between ecology and Judaism will be discussed.
https://ecosynagogue.org/events
Until 14 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
On 19 April 1943, the 20th convoy left the transit camp of Mechelen to deport 1,631 Jews to Auschwitz. Resistance actions from both inside and outside the wagons saved 236 of these deportees, who were thus able to jump from the train that was destined for extermination. The contemporary Belgian artist Jo Struyven presents his photographs of landscapes along this escape route. Two paintings by the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans evoke the massacre of Jews and Roma during the Holocaust. These presentations allow us to pursue the question of the place of artistic representation of such tragedies.
From 16 February to 10 March 2024 at the Kazerne Dossin
The exhibition presents a little-known aspect of the Second World War: the fate of homosexuals in various countries such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Numerous unpublished documents illustrate the persecution suffered by homosexual men and women under the Nazi regime. In Germany, 100,000 homosexuals were registered, half of whom were sentenced and between 5,000 and 15,000 sent to concentration camps.
https://kazernedossin.eu/fr/expo/exposition-temporaire-homosexuels-et-lesbiennes-dans-leurope-nazie/