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Until 12 February 2026 at the Mémorial de la Shoah – Drancy The artist attended the opening of this exhibition dedicated to his work, which was organised by Eléonore Ward. It pays tribute to his work as a witness and artist, a survivor of the Holocaust and a sharer of memories. Selinger is best known for the Monument to the Deportees, which he designed in 1976 and which stands in front ...
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In 2015, Erich Schwam (1930-2020) wanted to meet the mayor of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Eliane Wauquiez, to discuss the possibility of leaving a legacy to the town. At the time, he lived in a small house in La Tour-de-Salvagny. As he had no children of his own, he wished to give his possessions to Le Chambon, without knowing their precise value, in order to ‘support the future of the children of ...
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At the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights Inaugurated in 1956, the museum was built by the architects Schmitt and Schmitt-Noesen. This building, along with its monument, the Justice of the Peace building and the Labour Office, shape the image of the town of Esch. Following renovations carried out between 2018 and 2023, the museum has tripled in size. ...
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The Jews have a unique and turbulent history on Crete, one of the most important islands in the Mediterranean. Under the Byzantine Empire, Cretan Jews believed the hour of the final redemption had rung: in 430 C.E., a false messiah, the rabbi Moses, promised to lead them all to Jerusalem; they then threw themselves en masse into the raging sea and drowned. Several centuries later, the hand of ...
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This region of rolling hills punctuated by vineyards merits a two-day visit for memory’s sake. There remains, in fact, little evidence of Jewish life here, as most of it was eradicated by the Shoah.
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The history of Jews in Slovakia -dating from the sixteenth century under the protection of the Hapsburg- intersects that of their fellow believers in Hungary and the Czech Republic. Jews in these three countries experienced the same vicissitudes of discrimination, expulsions, and, in the seventeenth century, the acquisition of some civil rights. Numerous Jews from neighboring Moravia flocked ...
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