September 10, 2023 at 11:30 am at the Centre André Spire
The author presents his book The Arrival, dedicated to his passage from Constantine to Paris, from childhood to adulthood. The succession of images that follow in a kaleidoscope of airplane windows separates memories and sometimes clashes them as soon as they get off the plane at Orly, where Benjamin Stora’s uncle is waiting for them. We cross the decade of the 1960s with its political upheavals, from decolonization to May 68. This event is organized as part of Livre sur la Place, by the Centre André Spire and ACJ 55.
October 15, 2023 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
Presented as part of the Drancy Rendez-Vous series, this conference examines the difficult question of how to record genocide in places and times that were not conducive to its transmission. How it is passed on to future generations, and how it is rebuilt. And how to rebuild. The daughter of a camp survivor returns to these questions. In the presence of writer Danièle Laufer and Lionel Duroy. Hosted by Eduardo Castillo.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne (memorialdelashoah.org)
Until November 19, 2023 at Jardins Albert Kahn
Inspired by a trip Albert Kahn made from August to October 1909, from Buenos Aires to Rio, the exhibition allows visitors to discover the first recorded autochromes of Brazil, an artistic invitation to color. Numerous works are presented, drawn from archives containing 600 monochrome stereoscopic photographs, 61 autochrome plates and 3 minutes of film. Photographs of travel and the evolution of impressions, cities and urban development in South America, in the image of Albert Kahn’s curiosity and generosity.
Rio – Buenos Aires 1909 – Musée Albert Kahn (hauts-de-seine.fr)
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. Using simple cutting and pasting techniques, participants can choose to take their inspiration from the original or create their own, very different posters. This workshop is led by bookseller Gaëlle Partouche and artist Manuel Scalora, in partnership with Les Modernes bookshop.
A l’affiche – Atelier en famille (isere.fr)
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 giving testimonials in local schools. Arrested at the age of 15 with his mother and grandfather in June 1944, he was interned at Montluc, transferred to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944. Reservations are required to attend this event.
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 fighters, Communists and Jews. Arrested in Bolivia in 1983, he was tried four years later for crimes against humanity. This trial, which left its mark on people’s minds, opened the door to questions that had long been hidden. Paul Lefèvre’s documentary lets the audience hear the precious voices of the victims of Barbie’s horror as they testify at the trial.
From September 16, 2023 at Struthof
CERD is setting up this collaborative memorial project, in reference to the Keitel decree ordering the deportation of opponents of the Nazi regime. A participatory device, installed in the CERD lobby, where each visitor is invited to write the name of a NN deportee and hang it on the tree of memory, in homage to these freedom fighters who fell victim to Nazi repression. The project takes place during the European Heritage Days.
V6 (13.06.23) Programmation 2eme semestre 2023 (struthof.fr)
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 Musée-mémorial is devoting an exhibition to life at the Colonie in 1943. 35 original documents provide a better understanding of daily life at the Colonie during the first months in which children hidden during the Holocaust were taken in. The archives include souvenir photos, administrative and private correspondence, personal accounts, etc.
https://www.memorializieu.eu/event/evenement-80-ans-de-louverture-de-la-colonie-dizieu-2-4/
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 Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this publication, the editorial team called on a young 29-year-old cartoonist, Jean Cabut, known as Cabu. This exhibition, organised by Véronique Cabut, his wife, and the Shoah Memorial, is accompanied by historian Laurent Joly. It is also a tribute to the great cartoonist who was one of the twelve victims of the terrorist attack on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015.
https://www.memoireduchambon.com/blog/2023/06/23/cabu-dessins-de-la-rafle-du-vel-dhiv-exposition
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 street name plaques that house these pages of history and/or pay tribute to them.
https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/musee/parcours-urbain/lieux-secrets-de-la-resistance
Until 4 September 2023 at the Musée national Marc Chagall
This three-part exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the museum, created on the artist’s birthday, 7 July 1973, when it hosted the Biblical Message cycle. To mark the occasion, contemporary artists and writers will be sharing their interpretations of Chagall’s paintings, with a host of events planned for 7 July 2023 in particular.
Until 31 August 2023 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial.
The Memorial organises guided tours of the site of the former camp, as well as of the permanent exhibition that traces its history. Every Sunday, a return shuttle service is organised from the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
Thursday 19 October 2023, from 19:30 to 21:00
This lecture in Yiddish by Eliezer Niborski, organised by the Yiddish Culture House, is part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish diaspora” season. Through documents from Yiddish publications in Warsaw (Haynt, Moment, Folkstsaytung, Literarishe Bleter) and New York (Forverts, Der tog, Morgn Frayheyt), we discover the evolution of this press and its links with these two cities. But also, the dialectic of perceptions between Parisians and Berliners, with their caricatural and amusing side.
Until 31 July 2023 at Galerie Saphir
An astonishing journey into the intimate, the topical and the personified. Whether on Talmudic school benches, sports fields or war grounds, Patrick Braoudé’s work will have visitors thinking about these themes, absorbed by the serenity, speed or search for balance of the characters.
https://www.galeriesaphir.com/exhibitions/25-patrick-braoude-declic/overview/
7 and 10 September 2023 at the Medem Centre
These days will provide an opportunity to find out more about the centre and its role in sharing Yiddish culture.
https://www.centre-medem.org/EVT/portes-ouvertes-2023-les-7-et-10-septembre-2023
22 July 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance de Haute-Garonne
To mark the 80th anniversary of the execution of Marcel Langer by the Vichy government, the public is invited to discover his story and that of the 35th F.T.P-M.O.I. Brigade. The museum’s collections highlight the involvement of foreign Resistance fighters who served in these brigades. This project is being run by the MDR&D’s Memory Unit.
http://musee-resistance.haute-garonne.fr/fr/actualites/visite-guidee.html
Until 31 December 2023 at the Caen Memorial
This exhibition looks at the social, political and cultural protest movements in France between 1960 and 1975. These movements were often born in reaction to war and other injustices. Works by artists close to narrative figuration, such as Arroyo, Erró, Fromanger, Grau, Messac and Rancillac, provide a critical reflection on their time, from the Vietnam War to the aftermath of May 68. This exhibition is organised in partnership with the Gandur Foundation for Art.
https://www.memorial-caen.fr/les-evenements/lagenda/#exposition-annees-pop-annees-choc-1960-1975
Until 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in May 1943 and the creation of the CDJC (Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation) the previous month, the Shoah Memorial is staging an exhibition in the Alley of the Righteous, retracing the history of these two events, each of which marked 1943 in its own way. The event is coordinated by Lucile Lignon and Léonie Maillet.
From 1 July to 27 August 2023 at the Jardins Albert Kahn
As part of the Open Gardens festival organised by the Ile-de-France region as part of the “Mon été, ma région” (My summer, my region) operation, the Hauts-de-Seine department is inviting the artists Rieko Koga and her aerial creations, and Frédérique Petit and her plant-inspired shapes made from raw materials.
https://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/la-programmation/evenements/les-passageres
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, lazy, partying and clumsy, who try by all means to escape the Second World War. A screening organised in partnership with the Grenoble Cinémathèque.
Until 20 July 2023 at the Struthof camp
The exhibition, which opened on 8 May, comprises 12 panels hung on the gates of the Palais du gouverneur militaire in Strasbourg (on the Place Broglie side). The photographs were taken on the site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp, better known in France as the Struthof camp. They include a general view of the camp, one of its watchtowers, the crematorium and a portrait of Jean Villeret, one of the last French survivors.
Until February 2024 at the Manchester Jewish Museum
The exhibition “Take a Load Off” offers visitors to the museum a taste of the Sabbath. As a day of rest, a time for gathering, praying, singing, eating and talking together. Every Saturday, the museum offers visitors two special sound installations. The work has been created from oral history clips from the museum’s collection, interviews with Mancunian Jews who talk about their meanings, memories and sensations of the Sabbath. Produced by multidisciplinary arts company No Ordinary Experience, the piece was directed by musician and sound designer Ben Osborn, in collaboration with theatre artist Georgina Bednar and actress Rachel-Leah Hosker.
https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/exhibition/take-a-load-off/
From 20 October 2023 at the Sigmund Freud Museum
The Sigmund Freud Museum’s new special exhibition is devoted to comics. It presents the variety of methods and aesthetic alternatives used to represent individual and collective experiences of violence. Comic strips are illuminating for psychoanalysis, presenting the unfathomable and the unpronounceable – and they can be useful for opening up new perspectives on these experiences, and thus for treating trauma. The exhibition looks at the Shoah, war, sexualised violence, displacement and migration, and teenage experiences of violence.
https://www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitions-program/violence-in-comics/articles/violence-in-comics
Until 14 January 2024 at Museum Dorotheergasse
The photographer Maria Austria, born Marie Östreicher in Karlovy Vary in 1915, moved to Vienna in the 1930s to study at the Federal Institute for Graphic Education and Research. After working briefly as a press photographer, she emigrated to Amsterdam in 1937, where she founded the Studio Model en Foto Austria. After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, she went underground and helped the resistance by taking passport photos for forged passports. In 1945, she founded the photographic agency Particam Pictures with her husband and other colleagues. The exhibition presents her early work in Vienna through to the 1970s.
https://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/maria_austria
6 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Hohenems
This public guided tour of the permanent exhibition (in German) will enable visitors to discover the various facets of Jewish daily life and history. The tour takes in the Jewish Museum and the former Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Visitors will be able to study the architecture of the period and its evolution as they stroll through the synagogue quarter, the Jewish school, the mikveh and the Jewish hospice, most of which have been renovated in recent years.
29 June 2023 at 12.30pm on the CCLJ site
This exhibition looks back at anti-Semitic clichés. Their history and their sad present, fuelled by conspiracy theorists during geopolitical events or following the Covid-19 pandemic. This exhibition allows visitors to test and deepen their knowledge of the subject, through photos, videos and stories.
Until 27 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Belgium
Four women artists, each renowned for her contribution to a particular art form: filmmaker Chantal Akerman, sculptor Marianne Berenhaut, painter Sarah Kaliski and photographer Julia Pirotte. These Brussels Jewish women from different generations were affected by the Shoah, either directly or through their relatives. This choral exhibition follows the gaze of these four figures, whose lives span an entire century of history, interweaving events, places, destruction, emancipation, political transformations and intimate experiments.
12 September 2023 at the Museo Sefardi
In September, the Sephardic Museum, in collaboration with a number of institutions, will be holding an international conference on medieval European Jewish archaeology. The excavations carried out at the museum and the latest research on the Jewish quarter of Toledo will be highlighted.
https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/msefardi/en/actividades/agenda/2023/mayo/congreso.html
June 22, 2023 at the Museo Ebraico Carlo & Vera Wagner
Since 15 June, numerous events have been organised to celebrate Jewish culture in general and Jewish music in particular. At the 16th edition of this Festival, a series of four concerts will be given from the terrace of 3 via del Monte: Amoroso-Palumbo Duo, GOM-Young Metropolitan Orschestra, pianists from the Pierpaolo Levi School and finally, on 22 June, Raiz & Radicanto. A show combining psalms, Sephardic songs, Neapolitan music, fado, North African, Middle Eastern and Asian influences.
https://www.museoebraicotrieste.it/en/2023/06/12/erev-laila-2023-2/
Until 10 October 2023 at the Museo Ebraico di Roma
As part of the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the State of Israel, the museum is presenting the strong link between Roman art of the period and the creation of the State. The Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts has lent some twenty works by painters and sculptors from this period, which culminated in the “Art Pro-New State of Israel” exhibition in June 1948 at the Galleria d’Arte Antica Palazzo Torlonia.