30 March 2025, 5pm at JEM Copernic
In a resilient and unifying spirit, the Ensemble Choral Copernic, under the direction of Itaï Daniel, offers this musical rendezvous blending various styles and influences. A variety of languages too: Latin, Hebrew, English and Yiddish. All with the same goal, the same direction, that of peace. Songs, prayers and styles combining the two, such as Gospel, will celebrate peace and unity. Notably through the early works of Salomon Rossi and more recent works by Arvo Pärt.
Concert pour la Paix – Ensemble Choral Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement
15 March 2025, 5.30pm at the Centre Medem
The evening is devoted to the presentation of the book Le Monde yiddish by Olivier Peyroux and Arnaud Nebbache. The book follows the many musical and festive routes of Yiddish culture through its diverse sources and manifestations. It’s a joyous journey through the historical, social and religious themes that inspired the artists’ music. Talking about artists, the Yiddish songs of the Sisterke duo, made up of Alina Baba and Lucia Todoran, accompany this presentation.
Café littéraire et musical-Happy Hour : le monde yiddish – Centre Medem
From 9 to 23 March 2025
The very active Hebraica centre in Toulouse is offering a number of activities in March. These include a film-debate with the presentation of the film Le miroir aux alouettes (on 9 March at 3.30pm at the Cinéma CGR Montauban), a round table on the Resistance fighter Silvio Trentin (on 12 March at 6pm at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, a conference on ‘Antijudaism during the Lumières’ era, from Voltaire to Vichy’ by Isy Morgensztern (on 13 March at 6.30pm by zoom), a literary encounter with Roger Fajnzylberg about the book What I saw in Auschwitz (on 19 March at 6pm at the Ombres Blanches bookshop in Toulouse) and a film-debate with the screening of The Brutalist, moderated by Maurice Lugassy (on 23 March at 3pm at Cinéma CGR Montauban).
12 March 2025, 6.30pm at the Maïmonide Institute
The historian Tal Bruttmann is a specialist in anti-Semitic policies in France during the Second World War and the ‘Final Solution’ in Europe, and a member of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. In this talk, he looks at the way in which the Auschwitz concentration camp is and was represented. In particular, through the photos that have been found of the arrival of convoys and victims.
Auschwitz, entre histoire et représentations par Tal Bruttmann – IUMAT
12 March 2025 at 6pm, at the Musée de la bande dessinée
It’s hard enough to pay tribute to one giant. But when two giants come together through their shared works and influences, it’s worthy of a Western with a happy ending. These two New York Jewish children of parents from Eastern Europe embraced America. Each in his own way, according to his generation and his inspiration. Will Eisner (1917-2005), the eldest, was recognised at an early age as a brilliant cartoonist with The Spirit and as a publisher before the war, becoming the creator of the graphic novel in 1978. Jules Feiffer (1929-2025), the brilliant mind who embraced the 1960s generation’s thirst for American roads. The talk will be given by Jean-Pierre Mercier, comics historian, with Benjamin Herzberg, former assistant to Will Eisner, and Didier Pasamonik, comics specialist. At the end of the meeting, a guided tour of the ‘Treasures from the collections’ exhibition, led by Jean-Pierre Mercier, will enable you to discover works by Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer.
Eisner et Feiffer, rencontre au sommet | Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image
18 March 2025 at 7pm, at the Caen Memorial
Travelling with this great historian gives us a better understanding of her commitment to sharing memory, which is particularly evident in her books on the Shoah. With a look at the emblematic places familiar to the honorary director of research at the CNRS and vice-president of the Conseil supérieur des Archives. This is an opportunity for participants to hear an important intellectual voice, presenting her personal and family history from Eastern Europe to Paris and New York, from shared culture to enlightened history.
Until 30 March 2025 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
Homosexuality was a taboo subject in France until it was decriminalised in 1982, so the historical perspective, particularly during the dark pages of history, was also slow to be shared with the public. The Shoah Memorial in Drancy is hosting an exhibition and meetings on the history of the pink triangle worn by homosexual deportees, a symbol of the persecution of homosexuals during the Second World War. Numerous life stories are presented.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
Until 6 April 2025 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère
The special nature of this tour means that families, especially children aged 8 and over, can gain a better understanding of the daily lives of people who lived through the Second World War. Focusing in particular on the itinerary of four people. With a narrative that presents the realities they faced. From day-to-day life during the Occupation, to those interned and those who managed to join the maquis.
Raconte-moi la Seconde Guerre mondiale – visite théâtralisée
5 April 2025 at Montluc prison
This tour has been offered every first Saturday of the month since January and will run until May. 80 years after the liberation of the camps, participants will be able to rediscover the lives of those interned in Montluc prison and later deported.
Until 22 June 2025 at CHRD
Lyon was a hotbed of conflict during the Second World War, between Resistance networks and zealous collaborators. The route starting at the CHRD and leading all the way to the Place de la Comédie will enable participants to rediscover the traces of this painful past in the city. Through the buildings, as well as the steles, plaques and street names referring to the war.
Sur les pas de Jean Moulin | CHRD | Musée d’histoire | Lyon dans la guerre, 1939-1945
17 January 2025 at the Swiss Jewish Museum
During the Night of the Museums, in which 40 museums and cultural institutions take part from 6 pm to 2 am. Schalom is Hebrew and peace, love and happiness, welcome… and will be the main theme of this night at the Swiss Jewish Museum, featuring Aline Schroth, a ‘Schalom & Salam’ peace meeting and culminating in a Shtetl Blues concert with Swiss artist Lea Kalisch and Rabbi T, who share their musical talent, biblical inspirations and timeless enthusiasm in Basel…
From 7 March to 15 September 2025
This exhibition, created to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, highlights the efforts of survivors to rebuild their lives. While for many people the end of the war was a moment of joy, for Jews it was a time of terrible reflection on the suffering and death and the urgent need to rebuild a future for their children far from the horrors. And away from certain places? These are difficult questions addressed in an exhibition presented in a country where 90% of Jews were murdered and where the Nazis built so many death camps. The choices and paths taken by Polish Jews after the war will be presented.
“1945. Not the End, Not the Beginning” | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
20 February 2025, 7.30pm at the Portuguese Synagogue
The synagogue regularly organises this kind of cultural gathering, combining the warmth and history of the place with contemporary artistic performances. It’s a chance for participants to be gently transported between past and present.
Candlelight Concert | Jewish Cultural Quarter
Until 23 February 2025 at the Nationaal Holocaustmuseum
More than eighty photographs illustrate the development of the National Holocaust Museum over the last three years. They provide a better understanding of the issues and decisions taken by the museum’s employees. Not just the management and the historians and artists. But also the carpenters, architects, interior decorators, exhibition builders, electricians, trainees, restorers, cabinet makers, photo, film and audio technicians, security experts, horticultural advisers, cleaners, lighting designers, fitters, fundraisers… who have contributed and continue to contribute to the museum’s evolution and its presentations. With portraits by Coco Olakunle and documentary photographs by Nienke Fonk and Iris Haverkamp Begemann.
Behind the scenes exhibition | National… | Jewish Cultural Quarter
27 January 2025, 7pm, Place de la Synagogue, Esch-sur-Alzette
To mark the annual commemoration of the Holocaust, events are being organised in Esch-sur-Alzette, this year marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
At the Latvian Jewish Museum
The main theme of this virtual exhibition is an individual’s behaviour in the face of the tragedy unfolding around them. As such, Latvian artist Aleksandra Beļcova is exhibiting her work as part of the ‘Art and the Holocaust: Reflections for a Common Future’ project. Her drawings included in the ‘Riga Ghetto Series’ and produced after the war and until the artist’s death in 1981 were kept in her home by her daughter Tatjana Suta. When she died in 2004, the flat was converted into a museum. The virtual exhibition was created by the museum in cooperation with the Latvian National Art Museum. All the works in this series are presented in four thematic sections: ‘Jews in the streets of Riga and in the ghetto’, ‘Imagining the unthinkable: scenes of murder’, ‘Mother in mourning’, ‘Self-portrait – Requiem for tragedy’. The exhibition is rounded off with a story about the Riga ghetto and the artist Aleksandra Beļcova.
The Riga Ghetto in the Drawings of Aleksandra Beļcova – Muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”
Until 14 January 2025 at the Jewish Museum Venice
The guitar of the legendary troubadour Bob Dylan travels the world and his words the ages. Thanks to his words, the artistic itinerary of his teacher, Norman Raeben, between America and Paris has been reconstructed. Around forty of the painter’s works are exhibited in a vast space, tracing his artistic development, his encounters with Chagall, Soutine and Matisse, and his influence on many American artists, Jewish intellectuals and immigrants of Yiddish culture. With portraits of New York Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Sholem Aleichem, Mary Adler, Bob Dylan, Seymour Osborne and Stella Adler.
Norman Raeben (1901-1978). Peinture errante – Ghetto de Venise
Until 31 August 2025 at the Thessaloniki Jewish Museum
This exhibition, presented by the museum in partnership with the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, gives visitors a better understanding of the history of the period of occupation in the city thanks to previously unpublished historical documents and, in particular, photographs of German soldiers during the Occupation. The photographs were taken by collector and researcher Andreas Assael, a member of a Jewish family that went into hiding during the Holocaust. These soldiers, who witnessed and participated in the many forms of barbarism directed against the Christian population and especially the Jews of Thessalonica, are presented in this exhibition.
Instantanés des conquérants 1941-1944. La collection Assael
From 20 January to 3 February 2025 at the Museo Sefardi
From October 2024 to April 2025, the museum will be exhibiting some of the items stored in the prayer room warehouse. The aim is to give visitors the chance to discover rarely-seen pieces. The pieces have been selected by museum staff for their uniqueness and interest. Every Wednesday, they give a short presentation of that week’s chosen piece to interested members of the public. Afterwards, this experience of opening up the collections is shared on social networks. On Wednesdays 22 and 29 January, one of the museum’s librarians, Bárbara Pardo, will be revealing the secrets of an introductory book on palaeography and the illustrations hidden inside.
16 January 2025, 6.30pm at the Museo Sefardi
As part of the temporary exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Museo Sefardí, a series of lectures has been scheduled to enlighten participants on the history of the museum and that of Spanish Jewry since the 14th century. This January’s lecture will be given by Ventura Leblic García, a specialist in heraldic genealogy, who will take this opportunity to interpret the symbols displayed on the synagogue’s walls, which are sometimes more complex than they appear.
17 and 24 February and 3 March 2025 at the Danish Jewish Museum
In three lectures, Sara Fredfeldt Stadager and Signe Bergman Larsen tell the story of the liberation of Denmark and the return of refugees from Sweden. The joy expressed at the great news of the end of the liberation of the country, but also the return with the strange challenge of combining awareness of this history, so painful and so close, with the need to return to everyday life. This was the case for 18,000 Danish refugees in Sweden, 8,000 of whom had fled in 1943 because of the persecution of Jews by the Nazis.
After the liberation – The traces of the war among Danish Jews – jewmus
27 January 2025, 7pm at the Danish Jewish Museum
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most infamous concentration camps created during the Second World War. In Denmark, Auschwitz Day is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Shoah and other genocides, in order to perpetuate the memory but also to prevent such risks for future generations. At 7pm, Janus Moller Jensen, Director of the Danish Jewish Museum, welcomes the participants. This was followed by speeches from Peter Hummelgaard, Minister of Justice, a representative of the Danish Jewish community and the ambassadors of Poland, Israel and Great Britain. There will also be testimonies from survivors and historians, and lightings.
28 January 2025, 7.30pm at the Arenberg Theatre
The Shoah was particularly devastating in Antwerp, where many of the local authorities were zealous. In the summer of 1942, the Antwerp authorities collaborated with the German occupiers to arrest and deport over 10,000 Jews, very few of whom survived. Pupils from the Lycée Royal set out to explore this painful period by meeting descendants of the Jewish victims, as well as the police officers involved. As in The Interview (about Afghan refugees) and Lost in Transition (about a lost generation in Serbia), Thom Vander Beken blends past and present, trauma and silence, acknowledging responsibility and shirking it. The film is being screened to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the presence of the director. The film was made in partnership with the Kazerne Dossin and the Vredescentrum.
Film: The last Jewish summer | Kazerne Dossin
27 January 2025, 7pm at the CCLJ
Survivors of the Shoah often did not have the time or the personal and psychological means to confront the immense horror they and their loved ones had suffered. This silence both protected and burdened the second generation, as Chantal Akerman’s masterful work has shown. To mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Shoah, the CCLJ is highlighting this theme of hope and resilience: the rebuilding of individuals and communities after the liberation of the camps, 80 years on. The evening is built around testimonies from survivors of the Shoah and their descendants. An exhibition in the rotunda, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum, highlights the role of post-war Jewish holiday camps as symbols of renewal, solidarity and transmission.
CCLJREMEMBER2025 | Au-delà de la survie – CCLJ
12, 19 and 26 January 2025
This series of tours, taking place mainly in January, allows visitors to explore the two museums devoted to Viennese Jewish life. The one at Dorotheergasse and the other at Judenplatz, each dealing with different aspects and periods of Austria’s rich and complex Jewish history. Each one also regularly offers surprising temporary exhibitions.
Events | Jüdisches Museum Wien
2 February 2025, from 10am to 11am at the Hohenems Jewish Museum
This two-part tour allows participants to discover the various facets of everyday Jewish life and Jewish history at the Jewish Museum, but also in the old Jewish quarter of Hohenems. The tour takes visitors past private and public buildings, from the synagogue and Jewish school to the mikveh and Jewish hospice, most of which have been renovated over time.
Permanent Exhibition and Jewish Quarter | Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
At the Freud Museum
This is the 21st in a long series of thematic meetings that began on a summer evening in 2022. It’s a bit of an improvisation, simply because the participants wanted to extend the experience of questioning around the theme of the ‘ethical position’, a central theme for psychoanalysts currently working in the midst of the war in Ukraine. Françoise Davoine and Gérard Fromm will be meeting psychoanalysts, psychologists and other interested professionals from Ukraine and other countries. Previous meetings are available on YouTube.
Psychoanalysis under Conditions of War – www.freud-museum.at/en
16 January 2025, 4pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum
‘The Crafty Corner is a space encouraging artistic expression and experimentation. A series of workshops built around objects from Manchester’s Jewish Museum will provide a deeper understanding of an ancient craft that has been lost over time. The workshop both pays homage to it and reintroduces it into the present. In January, the ceramics workshop led by artist Irina Razumovskaya explores the tradition of Sephardic wedding rings, known for their intricate house designs symbolising home and belonging to Jewish culture.
Manchester Jewish Museum — The Crafty Corner: Ceramic Jewellery with Irina Razumovskaya
From February 2025
This online exhibition allows visitors to digitally explore the archives of the Munich Jewish Museum relating to survivors of the Shoah. By exploring the research carried out on the sites of post-war Jewish history in Munich and the fate of these displaced persons. In this way, Munich’s urban space is explored from the point of view of these displaced people, following their experiences over the years.
Jüdisches Museum München – Preview
30 January 2025, 7pm at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Hans-Gerd Koch, a German specialist in Kafka’s work, presents this approach in this lecture, outlining the author’s perception of artistic creation and his approach to visual art. He will also explain how adapting Kafka’s work into images helps us to better understand certain elements of his work.