27 and 28 March 2024 in San Giovanni Park 80 years after the deportation of people from Trieste’s hospitals, a commemorative event is being organised by the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum, in partnership with the Department of Mental Health and Addictions of the Giuliano Isontina University and the Humanities Department of the University of Trieste. On 28 March 1944, 47 Jews were arrested ...
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Exhibition “Flight and persecution in the 20th century”
At the Danish Jewish Museum The museum presents this very special exhibition devoted to the difficult theme of persecution and flight in contemporary European history. It’s about the situations that encouraged Jews to migrate to Denmark, but also about the courage of the Danish people in helping them to escape during the Second World War. The exhibition is accompanied by objects from ...
Plus d'infosFilm screening of “Resistance: They Fought Back”
2 May 2024 This film, directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger in 2023, deconstructs the myth of Jewish passivity during the war in the face of the Nazi machine of destruction. In fact, far from allowing themselves to be led to their deaths, they were very much involved in an individual and collective struggle, joining their country’s armies and then, following the invasion, ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Newcomers”
From 4 April 2024 to 27 April 2025 at the mahJ As part of this programme, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is highlighting the lives and work of the women artists in its collections. The first exhibition is devoted to Charlotte Henschel (1892-1985), Georgette Meyer (1916-2020) and Sonia Steinsapir (1912-1980). The exhibition looks at the career paths, artistic expressions ...
Plus d'infosConference “Singing in spite of everything”
9 April 2024 at 7pm at the Caen Memorial This year, 2024, music during the war is approached from two different angles. The first part of the year will explore artistic life under the Occupation. Then, the desire to sing after the Liberation. Musician and journalist Thierry Geffrotin presents the different ways in which people “entertained” themselves in an attempt to forget ...
Plus d'infosWorkshop “Being Jewish in Seine-Saint-Denis during the Second World War”
31 March 2024 at 10.30am at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Many Jews lived in this popular département throughout the 20th century, in the suburbs of Paris at the beginning of the century, but also later in Sarcelles and other places emblematic of Jewish settlement in North Africa. Through the study of the different destinies of Jewish volunteers, members of the Resistance, hidden children and ...
Plus d'infosScreening of the film “My father’s secrets”
17 April 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This animated film by Véra Belmont is an adaptation of the poignant comic strip Second Generation by Michel Kichka, whom we interviewed earlier. It was dedicated to his father Henri, and tells the story of the resilience of Jews after the war. It’s the moving view of a child from the Belgian city of Liège, ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Today, the ten major sites of national remembrance”
Until 29 June 2024 at the Montluc Memorial This exhibition features works by visual artist Nicolas Daubanes. One of them was created for the occasion, following an immersion in the Montluc Memorial, based on a study of the archives and discussions with visitors to the site. The aim is to emphasise transmission, by allowing art and memory to interact freely. This project is all the more ...
Plus d'infos“Women during the Second World War” exhibition
Until 8 September 2024 at the CHRD This exhibition is an opportunity to rediscover the impact of the Second World War on women. Both in terms of their support for the war effort and their involvement in the Resistance, but also the way in which the Vichy regime tried to limit their freedoms by assigning them solely to family roles. Les femmes durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale | CHRD | Musée ...
Plus d'infosFilm screening of “Nachlass”
10 April at the Dornbirn City Museum In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Hohenems, this German film by Christoph Hubner from 2017 deals with how grandparents’ past affects lives and how to overcome this. Seven people, grandchildren of Nazis or their victims, testify. With sincerity and without pathos, with the aim of helping new generations deal with this kind of situation. Nachlass | ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Het Onderwater Cabaret”
From 9 February to 26 May 2024 at the Galerie Eric F. Ross This exhibition highlights the work of German-Jewish author Curt Bloch, written between August 1943 and April 1945 while in hiding in the Netherlands. His poems, written in Dutch and German, were collected together in a booklet, dealing with the war and the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but also with the attitude of the ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Jean Moulin, Paths to Freedom”
At the CHRD This exhibition devoted to the great hero of the Resistance allows us to (re)discover the man through the eyes of those who knew him or studied him. These include friends and family, fellow Resistance members and even opponents. Numerous documents are used, ranging from his childhood, his professional career before the war and his involvement in the Resistance. Videos are also ...
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Torre de Maneys
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The town of Vila Real, in northern Portugal, is famous for its ancient architecture, which has been blending influences since the Paleolithic period. It became a hotbed of Marranism following the Portuguese Inquisition, and has remained so over the centuries. This stability is largely due to its wine-growing activity, which has remained unaffected by political and religious pressures, as the ...
Plus d'infosVila Nova de Foz Coa
The small town of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, in north-east Portugal, is famous for its Unesco World Heritage monuments, in particular its Palaeolithic stone carvings. The Jewish presence here goes back a long way, to at least the 14th century. At that time, the Jews worked mainly in the crafts. The community grew as a result of the Spanish Inquisition and the arrival of many refugees. The Jewish ...
Plus d'infosViana do Castelo
A town in north-west Portugal, Viana do Castelo is renowned for its crafts and costumes. Situated close to the River Lima and less than 60 kilometres from Porto, it quickly became an important maritime and commercial centre, with links to both South America and Northern Europe. This was followed by the development of the fishing industry and numerous craft-related activities. These were areas ...
Plus d'infosTorre de Moncorvo
The small town of Torre de Moncorvo, in north-east Portugal, is famous for its Renaissance buildings and religious edifices and for its long-standing commercial importance, boosted in particular by the presence of the Marranos during the Inquisition. However, this did not prevent the Inquisition from bringing many cases to trial. The Jewish presence goes back much further, probably to the ...
Plus d'infosSantarem
A very old town, dating back to Roman times, Santarem is known for its ruins and buildings marking the passage between conquerors and eras. Santarem became part of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1147, following the conquest by Dom Afonso Henriques. The Jewish quarter was located near the , inside the city walls. This long-standing presence of the Jewish community probably explains their ...
Plus d'infosObidos
A small town dating back to Roman times, Obidos is famous for its medieval castle, its ramparts and the small streets that line them. The Jewish presence in Obidos goes back a long way. They lived mainly along the , close to the church of Santa Maria. The Jews practised a wide variety of trades, particularly in the crafts, commerce and scientific fields. This diversity of activities and ...
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