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6 April 2025, at 13:45 On this guided tour, the Maison de la Culture Juive, in partnership with the CCLJ, traces the history of Jewish life in Brussels. From the interwar period, with the arrival of Eastern European Jews in its working-class districts, to the way in which the city faced up to Nazi policies during the Shoah, with its courageous acts of resistance, particularly by certain ...
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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 ...
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17 November, 2pm The House of Jewish Culture, in partnership with the CCLJ, is organising a guided tour of the Cureghem synagogue, inaugurated in 1933, in this working-class district of Brussels. This was a time when many Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the rise of Nazism in Germany. It is one of the last remaining Jewish buildings from this period, which is why it is so important ...
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4 November 2024, 12.30pm at the CCLJ A discussion with Albert Aniel, Sophie Milquet (Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine) and Yannik van Praag (Fondation Auschwitz) on the book “Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighborhood”. The book gives participants an insight into the history of the Jewish populations who migrated from Eastern Europe to the working-class districts of ...
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1 September 2024 in Anderlecht The year is starting again, but the notes and the enthusiasm that accompany them are still present. A music of distant and uncertain times, klezmer is reappearing in the four corners of the world to re-enchant us. The Jewish Culture House offers you an introduction to klezmer music, with sessions of nigunim, work on scores, a study of style, personal work and ...
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Until 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium The museum will soon be closed for major renovations. This exhibition is the last to be presented before these works take place. The Passage is a central theme in Judaism, best known for its connection with the festival of Pesach and the passage through the desert that enabled the people of Israel to prepare for their arrival in the Holy ...
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17 April 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This animated film by Véra Belmont is an adaptation of the poignant comic strip Second Generation by Michel Kichka, whom we interviewed earlier. It was dedicated to his father Henri, and tells the story of the resilience of Jews after the war. It’s the moving view of a child from the Belgian city of Liège, ...
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15 October at 2pm On this themed walk, visitors will discover this district near Brussels’ Gare du Midi, which welcomed several waves of Jewish migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With its three former synagogues, its community and cultural centres, some of which are still standing, and the legendary Union football stadium, a weekly fixture in this working-class ...
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Lindenlei, Ghent
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Rue des Sarts 112, 6001 Charleroi Tel +32 71 36 45 25
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Rue Pige au Croly 56, 6000 Charleroi Tel +32 71 31 10 66
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Rue de Diekirch 243, 6700 Arlon Tel : +32 63 22 46 79
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Dieweg 95, 1180 Uccle Tel +32 2 374 17 50
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23 April at 2 p.m., at the Dieweg cemetery This walk is one of several in the Belgian capital. Familiar and more unusual places, bearing witness to Jewish life past and present. During this walk, which takes place in the small cemetery located in the south of Brussels, a history tour will reveal the golden age of Brussels Judaism at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the actors ...
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Parklaan 120, 2650 Edegem Tel : +32 475 555 656 https://www.chaicenter.be/
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Few Jews lived in Mechelen before the war, but the city is infamous in Jewish history for the Kazerne Dossin. This building dates from before Belgian independence, from Austrian times. At the beginning of the 20th century, it served as a military barracks for the Belgian army. In 1942, when the Nazis were looking for a place to round up the Jews, they chose the Kazerne Dossin. It seemed ...
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