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Until 31 December 2024 at the Dossin Barracks One of Antwerp’s culinary specialities, the hand-shaped biscuits, symbol of the city, are very popular with tourists. They were invented 90 years ago by baker Jos Hakker. This son of Dutch Jewish immigrants paid tribute to his host city. Less well known is his personal story: arrested in 1942, taken to the Dossin barracks and deported to ...
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Via Remesina Esterna, 32, 41012 Fossoli MO Tel : +39 (0) 59 688 272 Fondazione Fossoli – Campo di Fossoli
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Until 6 October 2024 at MEIS The MEIS, which offers a fascinating presentation of Italy’s ancient Jewish history, is inaugurating a space dedicated to contemporary history, with the challenge of sharing the diversity of Jewish life in the 20th century. The exhibition looks at political issues such as access to citizenship in modern Italy, the racial laws of 1938 and the Shoah. But also ...
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The aim of this exhibition is to raise awareness of this history, particularly in Italy, a country with close ties to Rhodes at the time. It is being held to mark the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rhodes. The project comprises two complementary elements: a participatory installation and a web portal. The first will be exhibited at the Shoah Memorial in Milan from 10 May ...
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28 May 2024 at 2pm at the Danish Jewish Museum The academic Nancy Segal presents her book, published in 2023, recounting the painful life of two twins in Auschwitz, victims of the experiments carried out by the infamous Mengele. What happened to them, but also their efforts to bring the Nazi torturer to justice. The Twin Children of the Holocaust: The Humanity Behind the Horror – jewmus
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Auschwitz remains the most terrible symbol of the Shoah, a symbol that is periodically threatened with being either denied or reclaimed. Since 2005, however, the Museum’s curators have done an outstanding job in putting together a new permanent exhibition, in addition to the one that has existed since 1947. A visit is therefore a must for anyone who has any doubts about the reality of ...
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October 1, 2023 at 2:30 pm at the Mémorial de la Shoah A meeting is organized at the Edmond J. Safra auditorium, to present the texts of three testimonies of the Shoah. Génia Klukowski, born in 1943 at the Swiss Rescue maternity hospital in Elne while her father was murdered in Majdanek, carried out family research long after her reconstruction as an individual, and published ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The city of Ostrava is best known for its economic activity. It was one of the great coal mining regions and a major ironworks. The Jewish presence in the city was rather late, being limited by the local authorities. There are records of a Jewish resident renting a distillery in 1786. A community was slowly formed, officially taking shape in 1875 with about 60 members. A Jewish cemetery was ...
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Osoblaha is a Silesian village popular with contemporary tourists for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence probably dates back to this period and was quite stable over the centuries until the 18th century. Jewish refugees from Vienna and Poland settled here. The Jewish community in Osoblaha included the presence of prominent rabbis. The number of Jews declined especially at the ...
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Olomouc was the capital of Moravia from the 14th to the 17th centuries and a major trading town at that time. The Jewish presence is very old and seems to date from the 11th century. Documents from the Middle Ages have been found which attest to the payment of taxes by the Jews to the local authorities. The Jews of Olomouc were expelled in 1454 and their property seized. Nevertheless, some ...
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Kojetin is a Moravian town that has been known as a commercial crossroads for centuries and now hosts many cultural events. The Jewish presence in Kojetin seems to date back to at least the 13th century, although the earliest documents found attesting to this date from 1566. They mention the presence of 52 Jewish families in Judengasse. In the 16th century there was a and a . The synagogue ...
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Until April 30, 2023 at the Michigan Holocaust Center The exhibition explores the life and work of Hrusov-born Erich Lichtblau-Leskly (1911-2004), a Czech Jewish artist who used art and satire as tools of coping and resistance during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt camp. He made these works in secret, presenting the brutality of everyday life. His wife saved these works by hiding them ...
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Until 23 July 2023 at the mahJ 150 photographs, archive documents and children’s drawings made by the residents of this colony which served as a refuge for them during the Second World War are presented in this exhibition. Individual drawings, but also complete stories. 105 Jewish children lived there from 1943 to 1944. 44 of these children and 7 animators were rounded up by the Nazis. ...
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16 and 17 March 2023 at the headquarters of the Grand Est Region The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members is organising this event, which brings together a dozen speakers and examines the relationships underlying the association of faith and deportation. In particular, religious practice in the camps. The programme is a continuation of last year’s event on the same themes. ...
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From 16 February to 10 March 2024 at the Kazerne Dossin The exhibition presents a little-known aspect of the Second World War: the fate of homosexuals in various countries such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Numerous unpublished documents illustrate the persecution suffered by homosexual men and women under the Nazi regime. In Germany, 100,000 homosexuals were registered, ...
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Brno is the capital of Moravia. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 13th century, when the local authorities invited them to settle there without the discriminatory measures imposed in other places at that time. This warm welcome encouraged development and by 1348 there were almost 1000 Jews living there. Graves from this period have even been found. However, the Jews were expelled ...
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Austerlitz, Slavkov u Brna in Czech, is a town most famous for the Napoleonic battle of 1806. The Jewish presence in Moravia is one of the oldest, with a Jewish cemetery dating from the 12th century. Among the illustrious figures from the town is the author of the Sefer ha-Minhagim (1294), Moses ben Tobiah. There was also a yeshiva in Austerlitz at that time. At the beginning of the 17th ...
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Chodova Plana is a town known as an old trade route, for its mines and brewery and the long-standing fights between nobles to rule it. The Jewish presence probably dates from the end of the 16th century. A synagogue was mentioned in 1645, as well as an , where a few hundred graves are located. Threatened with expulsion on several occasions, a Jewish community continued to live there. About ...
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Zatec is an ancient royal city, dating back to at least the 11th century. The Jewish presence in Zatec is very old, dating back to at least the 14th century. However, following attacks and expulsion, their official return only took place at the end of the 19th century. Indeed, only two Jewish families lived in Zatec in 1852. A was opened in 1869 and a inaugurated three years later. At its ...
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Votice is a fairly old town in Bohemia. The Jewish presence dates back at least to the 16th century, with a document from 1538 referring to the town’s Jewish cemetery. About ten Jewish families lived in Votice at that time. A synagogue was built in 1661 (and demolished in 1950). About 50 Jewish families lived there at the turn of the 19th century, most of them working as seed merchants, ...
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Usti Nad Labem is a town of Czech nobility and is known for its chemical industry. The Jewish presence in Usti Nad Labem dates back to at least the 16th century, but was very irregular, as it was restricted by the authorities. It was not until 1848 that Jews were able to settle there officially. Thus the Jewish population of Usti Nad Labem increased from about 100 in 1880 to almost 1000 in ...
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Mlada Boleslav is an old Bohemian town that developed in the industrial age thanks to the automobile industry. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, according to written documents of the time. About ten Jewish families lived in Mlada Boleslav in 1570 and had a synagogue. The dates from 1584. The Jewish population was 120 in 1615. They were mainly active in the transport ...
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Klatovy is a Bohemian town known for its old markets on the roads to nearby larger towns. The Jewish presence in Klatovy has been documented since the 14th century, but was not very present in the following centuries until the 19th century. In the middle of the 19th century, Jews, mostly from the surrounding villages, established a community in Klatovy. A synagogue and a cemetery were opened ...
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Carlsbad, Karlovy Vary in Czech, is a city famous for its spa complex and its festival. The Jewish presence in Carlsbad was “only intermittent” until the middle of the 19th century, being forbidden to stay there and mainly coming to work occasionally from surrounding villages. Others came on holiday. The Jewish communities in Vienna, Prague and Berlin contributed to the creation ...
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Benesov is a town in Bohemia, whose name is derived from its medieval rulers. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, making it one of the oldest in the region. Nevertheless, the community consisted of only a handful of members until the middle of the 19th century. In 1893, the Jews of Benesov and the surrounding villages numbered just under 800 people. The number ...
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