Traveling rabbis served the small local communities, made up of several or more families (some ten at Evreux and Lisieux, around two hundred at Le Havre). The only sizable community structure, a small synagogue , was built by the Jews themselves after the liberation of France.
A new exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust was inaugurated on 1 April 2025 at the Caen Memorial. It aims to break with traditional museum practices regarding the memory of the Holocaust. It also presents the lives of Jewish communities before the Holocaust.
Sources: Times of Israel