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Conference “Commitment, survival and resistance: the Jews of Tunisia at a time of peril”

8 December 2024 at 2pm at the Shoah Memorial For the Nazis, the Shoah was not an ambition limited to Europe. The advance of the Allied troops prevented this ambition to materialize on every continent. Nevertheless, the occupation of Tunisia by Axis forces raised fears of a fate similar to that of European Jews, with brutal measures taken against the local Jewish population. Fortunately, the ...

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Conference “Refugees and deportees in the USSR: a little-known facet of the Holocaust”

15 October 2024, 8pm at the Medem Centre This lecture by Sylvie Drumlewicz-Lidgi looks at the little-studied subject of the impact of the Shoah in the part of Poland occupied by Soviet troops following their pact with the Nazi regime to divide the country between the two dictatorships. The difficult conditions of survival during the war for these Polish Jews, who were spared the fate of other ...

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Conference « When Jewish Paris learned about the murder of Yiddish writers in the USSR »

October 20, 2022 Soviet Yiddish literature had a great influence in the world, far beyond the communist circles. Its brutal suppression in 1948 became known, in stages, only after Stalin’s death in 1953. This was the beginning of the long decline of Communist influence in Jewish circles. The historian Philippe Boukara returns during this conference to the repercussions in France of the ...

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