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Thematic tour: War Crimes Trials after World War II
17 November 2024 at 12 noon at the Gaon Museum in Vilna The museum is offering a guided tour of its exhibition devoted to the Shoah and this particular aspect of the trials that followed. Rediscovering the stories of the victims of the Shoah and the lessons that can be learned from them. Trials that took place in various European countries, involving a tiny proportion of those responsible for ...
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Exhibition “Karya 1943. Forced Labour and the Holocaust”
This is the first exhibition to be presented in Germany and Greece on the subject of Greek Jews as forced labourers during the occupation. It focuses on the site of Karya, where in the spring of 1943 the Germans transported hundreds of Jews from Thessaloniki to build a road. The exhibition is organised in partnership by the Jewish Museum of Greece, the Benaki Museum and the Nazi Forced Labor ...
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Tribute to Aristides de Sousa Mendes: The Courage of a Righteous
17 November 2024 at 5.30pm at the Jewish Museum of Belgium This tribute to the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux from 1938 to 1940 is organised by “Les Justes de Belgique” and the “Aristides de Sousa Mendès Foundation – US”, in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Belgium and the Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique. It honours the courage of the consul who ...
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“Eighty years of action in pictures: the Association of Montluc survivors (1944-2024)” exhibition
Until 21 December 2024 at the National Memorial of Montluc’s jail This exhibition, produced in partnership with the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), highlights the actions undertaken by the association since its creation in the autumn of 1944. In particular, the census of former internees taken after the Liberation and the way in which they were helped. ...
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Memorial of the Shoah in France
The construction of the Memorial of the Shoah in France began in 1953, by international subscription, on land made available by the City of Paris. The origins of the project can be traced back to Isaac Schneersohn’s initiative in 1943 to bring together 40 people involved in Jewish life in France, which was still occupied, in order to create a clandestine archive. The aim was to set up a ...
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Bastia
About a hundred miles from Livorno, Bastia, like the port of the Italian city, has long been a major maritime port of call. The city is also known for its citadel and its Palace of Governors. During the First World War, Jewish migrants from Syria and Lebanon, then under the French mandate, settled here, numbering around a thousand people at the time, including long-standing Bastia Jews. In ...
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Ajaccio
Nicknamed the “imperial city” because of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, Ajaccio is the city of Corsica with the largest number of inhabitants. It is known for its numerous monuments paying homage to him, but also its churches and museums. Napoleon, who brought about the emancipation of Jews not only in France, but also in many parts of Europe during his conquests, particularly in Italy, ...
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Remembrance Place
23 route du Mazet, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
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Montbuzat Memorial
Chièze, commune d’Araules
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Maison des Roches
43400 Le Chambon sur Lignon
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Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighbourhood
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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The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory
Until 16 March 2025 at Museum Dorotheergasse Eighty years after the Shoah, the last witnesses are disappearing. The challenge is to share their memory in the broadest sense of the term. Individual memory of shattered lives, collective memory that also serves to combat new genocides. The generation of survivors armed themselves with this formidable resilience to show that they would not only ...
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Visit to the Hohenems Jewish Museum and the town’s old Jewish quarter
3 November 2024, 10am This guided tour allows participants to discover the permanent exhibition, which tells the story of the Jewish community from the 17th century to the Shoah, as well as the survivors’ return with the debates of the time about the duty to remember and the difficulty of confronting these issues with the many dead and exiled. Visitors discover the stories and ...
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Screening of the film “The Stranger”
15 October 2024, 7pm In a long hunt that takes him to South America before returning to the United States, an FBI agent finds a former leading figure of the Nazi regime, hiding in an American village under a new name and a new respectability. This 1946 film was directed by the great Orson Welles, who also played the Nazi. The FBI agent is played by the great Edward G. Robinson, a famous ...
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Meetings to mark the 80th anniversary of the closure of the Drancy camp
20 October from 2pm In the presence of journalist Didier Epelbaum and historian Renée Poznanski, journalist Edouardo Castillo will lead a discussion on the period 1944-1947, which saw the closure of the Drancy camp following the Liberation of France. He recalled the zealous massacres carried out by the camp’s administrators before the arrival of the Allies, and the flight of its ...
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Guided tour
3 November 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This tour, offered every first Sunday of the month, allows participants to discover how the Second World War affected the département of Isère. The tour takes a chronological look at how history developed and the impact it had on the people who lived there. It then looks at how the Resistance was organised in ...
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Dreams in Glass exhibition: The Neiger brothers – From Art Deco to the Shoah
At the Musée Judéo-Alsacien Bouxwiller Art Deco and its daring artistic adventures inspired the brothers Norbert and Moritz Max Neiger to create costume jewellery for this brand new market, in response to the post-First World War desire for more sobriety than the expensive jewellery that had previously been paraded. The exhibition tells the story of these designers from the Czech town of ...
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Rosiers – Joseph Migneret garden
10 rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris
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Bust of Marcel Rajman
Square Marcel Rajman, 75011 Paris
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Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation
7 quai de l’Archevêché, 75004 Paris
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“Jos Hakker” exhibition
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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Exhibition “Theft”
Until 27 October 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna and the Wien Museum During the Nazi persecution that led to the extermination of Viennese Jews during the Shoah, they were methodically deprived of all their rights and property before being deported. This exhibition traces the history of these thousands of looted homes. Organised in conjunction with the Vienna City Museum, it presents the ...
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Exhibition “Frankfurt Ostend – Taking a Look Into a Jewish Quarter”
Until 24 November 2024 at the Frankfurt Jewish Museum On ‘Kristallnacht’, from 9 to 10 November 1938, Nazi troops and their supporters carried out a mass destruction of Jewish sites in Germany. These included the beautiful synagogue of the Israelite Religious Society, inaugurated in 1907. The city of Frankfurt built a bunker in its place in 1942. The Frankfurt Jewish Museum has set up this ...
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Presentation of the book “The Swimmer” by Pierre Assouline
29 September 2024 at the Shoah Memorial This meeting with author Pierre Assouline, actor Vincent Elbaz and cellist Laura Meilland is devoted to Alfred Nakache. This great swimmer, born in Constantine in 1915, rose through the ranks, becoming French and then European champion and beating a world record. He was even selected to represent France at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Denounced ...
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“Paris 1924 – Paris 2024” exhibition
Until 11 August at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy Presented as part of the Paris Olympics this summer, this exhibition highlights the issues of prejudice and discrimination, past and present. How gestures of friendship and support between athletes have left their mark on history just as much as current discriminatory policies. In particular, the victories of Jesse Owens, the black American ...
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Visit to the permanent exhibition Women during the Second World War
8 September 2024, at 3pm In clear contrast to the emancipation of the 1920s and the suffragettes, the Vichy regime tried to confine women to the social role of wife and mother. This was not accepted by many, particularly those involved in the Resistance. The exhibition provides an insight into the issues at stake at the time, the reactions of these women to this oppression and their ...
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Exhibition “Contemporary dialogues – Today, the ten most important sites of national remembrance”
Until 7 September 2024 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members Each of the ten sites of national remembrance will host a work by artist Nicolas Daubanes based on the memory conveyed by the site, in a mission combining transmission and commemoration. Organised in partnership with the three FRACs of the Grand Est region, the exhibition allows visitors to reflect on the history of ...
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Fossoli Camp
Via Remesina Esterna, 32, 41012 Fossoli MO Tel : +39 (0) 59 688 272 Fondazione Fossoli – Campo di Fossoli
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Exhibition “Charlotte Salomon in Close-up”
Until 29 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam The museum is transforming one of its rooms to host this astonishing exhibition that plays with the boundary between theatre and real life. Video extracts from the time when the young artist, who was murdered during the Shoah, lived are interspersed with photos of her work, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in pre-war Berlin and ...
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