Jewish life in Normandy was focused around Caen and Rouen.
The Jewish community lives in the region since the Roman empire until their expulsion in 1182.
During the middle-ages, Normandy was the region of France with the largest Jewish community. Their installation in London was favored by William the Conqueror. Rouen was an important center for judaism and Caen had a synagogue until 1306.
15 October 2024, 7pm In a long hunt that takes him to South America before returning to the United States, an FBI agent finds a former leading figure of the Nazi regime, hiding in an American ...
23 September 2024 |
Until 5 January 2025 To mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, this exhibition looks back at the personal journeys of the brave American soldiers who liberated France. It looks back ...
13 May 2024 |
9 April 2024 at 7pm at the Caen Memorial This year, 2024, music during the war is approached from two different angles. The first part of the year will explore artistic life under the Occupation. ...
18 March 2024 |
28 November 2023 at the Caen Memorial During the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, the Nazis photographed the operation in order to provide their superiors with proof that ...
22 November 2023 |
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 ...
3 July 2023 |
Until December 31, 2022 at the Caen Memorial The Caen Memorial presents an exhibition on the places linked to the Shoah. At the end of the last century, Michael Kenna undertook to photograph ...
10 August 2022 |
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