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Auschwitz – Birkenau
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 ...
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Testimonials by Génia Klukowski, Rachel Brafman and Gaston Revel
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 ...
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Conference: “Fighting against voluntary or involuntary forgetting”
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 ...
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Family workshop
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. ...
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Testimony of Claude Bloch
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 ...
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Screening of excerpts from the Klaus Barbie trial
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 ...
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“Nacht Und Nebel” memorial project
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 ...
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Ostrava
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 ...
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Osoblaha
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 ...
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Olomouc
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 ...
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Kojetin
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 ...
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Exhibition “To paint is to live: The Artwork of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly”
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 ...
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Exhibition “You will remember me: words and drawings by the children of the Maison d’Izieu, 1943-1944”
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 ...
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Days of reflection on faith and deportation
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 ...
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Exhibition “Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe”
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, ...
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Brno
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 ...
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Austerlitz
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 ...
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Chodova Plana
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 ...
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Zatec
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 ...
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Votice
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 ...
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Usti Nad Labem
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 ...
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Mlada Boleslav
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 ...
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Klatovy
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 ...
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Carlsbad
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, ...
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Benesov
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, ...
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Bechyne
Bechyne is a fortified town in the Bohemian region near the Luznice River. It dates back to the Middle Ages and was an important regional town. It is best known today as a thalassotherapy centre. ...
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Tours
The Jewish presence in the city of Tours dates from at least the 6th century. In the Middle Ages there was a rue de la Juiverie, as well as a Jewish cemetery. However, as in all cities of France, ...
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Rotterdam
In 1610, the city fathers of Rotterdam issued permits to engage in trade within the city to a small number of Portuguese Jewish merchants. The permits guaranteed freedom of worship and the right ...
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Cluj
Cluj is today Transylvania’s most important city. The Jewish presence became significant here only starting in the late eighteenth century. The community, divided between those of ...
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Przemysl
The last Polish city before the Ukrainian border and former Austrian Fortress that fell to the Russians in the first World War, Przemysl is also a city with a strong Jewish community dating going ...