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Following the angry reception that greeted him when he preached to the Jews of Thessaloniki, around the year 50, the Apostle Paul was spirited out of town by fellow believers in Jesus’ reincarnation. They brought him to Berea, some 60 km to the west. There too, Paul spoke in a synagogue, but in Berea the Jews “were more noble than those in Thessaloniki, for they received the word ...
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On 23 February 2008, the Compiègne Internment and Deportation Memorial was inaugurated on the site of the former Royallieu camp in Compiègne. Since then, 90,000 visitors have crossed the threshold of this place of history and remembrance. The Royallieu barracks were built in 1913 and comprise 25 buildings covering an area of 16 hectares. From 1941 to 1944, it was transformed by the German ...
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The Jewish presence in Ingwiller seems to date from 1347, the date of an administrative document attesting to this. Under the regency of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg, they enjoyed greater individual and economic freedom than many other towns in the region. The Jewish community grew throughout the 18th century, from 13 families in 1716 to 25 in 1766. The development of spiritual life ...
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The Jewish presence in Hochfelden seems to date from the 16th century. Built in 1841 and a historical monument since 1996, the of Hochfelden is a classic example of Alsatian synagogue architecture. It was preceded and even accompanied by another synagogue, built in the 17th century. Next to the synagogue was a mikveh, the former rabbi’s house and a Jewish school. The synagogue was ...
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Haguenau is one of the oldest Jewish communities in Alsace. The Jews lived there almost without interruption since the Middle Ages, probably in the 12th century, and enjoyed the same freedoms as the other inhabitants, except for a few episodes, mainly of a more national scope, affecting all regions. The Jewish population increased from 34 families in 1735 to 64 in 1780. The first synagogue ...
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The Jewish presence in the villages surrounding Haguenau seems to date at least from the 14th century. In Ettendorf in particular, two Jewish families are recorded in administrative documents in 1449. In the Middle Ages, Ettendorf was home to a large Jewish community and many scholars who came to study in its famous rabbinical school, sometimes with more than a hundred students. Ettendorf is ...
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The Jews of Erstein were not allowed to settle in the city until 1850. Some were allowed to work there during the day, but had to return in the evening to the towns in the region that were more open to Jewish emancipation. The was inaugurated in 1882. It was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis, its contents auctioned off at that time. Of the 100 Jews living in Erstein in 1939, only 60 were ...
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The Jewish presence in Diemeringen seems to date from the 17th century. Only 14 Jewish families lived there on the eve of the French Revolution. The community of Diemeringen was organized – synagogue, religious school and mikveh – around the rue des Juifs (today rue du Vin). The community grew mainly in the 19th century, reaching 139 people in 1870. The war, and then the rural ...
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The Jewish community of Dambach-la-Ville dates back to the seventeenth century and so is the synagogue which was renovated in 1850. After the community disappeared, it was donated to the town in 1947 and transformed into a theatre. Renovation work, including the installation of an air conditioning system, led to the discovery in 2012 of a formidable treasure: a genizah (a ...
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The first mention of a Jewish family in Brumath dates back to 1562. Documents from the end of the century mention the presence of a Jew named Susskind. In 1693, 4 Jewish families were registered in Brumath and, in 1766, their number rose to 9. The French Revolution gave Brumath, as in the rest of the country, access to citizenship for Jews. This allowed the Jewish community not only to settle ...
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The Jewish presence in Benfeld dates back from the Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, the community was lively and as important as the one in Strasbourg. The Jews were expelled from the city during the 1349 black plague, then drawn or burned on the same year during the Saint Valentin massacre. From this date, Benfeld was forbidden to Jews until the eighteenth century. The community ...
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Banned from the communes attached to the bishopric of Strasbourg until the French Revolution, the Jews made a timid return to the region afterwards. Of the 800 Jews present in the surrounding villages in 1784, there were none in the town of Barr. Nevertheless, the town gradually welcomed Jews, mainly from Zellwiller, allowing a community to take shape in the second half of the 19th century. ...
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The Jewish community of Balbronn is registered in the censuses of the city since 1665. Some medieval houses of the city center still bear the traces of mezuzot. is located 47-48 Balbach street, in what is commonly called “House of the Jews”. The house dates from 1638, although it started serving as a synagogue only in 1730. The prayer hall was on the first floor, the mikveh in an ...
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There are little remaining traces of the Jewish presence in Macerata. You can nevertheless visit the which contains archives mentioning the presence of a Jewish community in the city since 1287. houses a tombstone with an Hebrew inscription from 1553, referring to the passing of Rabbi Avigdor. The tombstone was probably transferred here from the old Jewish cemetery of Cappuccini Vecchi. The ...
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Rakovnik is located between Prague and Plzen; 32 miles west of Prague, and 30 miles northeast of Plzen. Jews are on record as living in Rakovnik since 1441. Between 1618 and 1621, three Jewish families from the nearby town of Senomaty came to live at Rakovnik. In 1690, there were 38 Jews living in the town, and in 1724, seven Jewish families had made Rakovnik their home. The Jewish community ...
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The Jewish presence in Breclav dates to the sixteenth century. The ghetto, constructed in the seventeenth century, can still be visited. The neo-Roman style synagogue was built in 1888. Closed by the Nazis, it served as a warehouse for a half century. The synagogue today houses a cultural center, an exhibition hall, and an auditorium. In 2000, a plaque was affixed in the synagogue’s ...
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Polná is located in Bohemia, about 70 miles south-west of Prague. Jews started settling in Polná in the fifteenth century. The ghetto was created in the seventeenth century, some houses can still be seen. The synagogue was built in 1682. Destroyed by a fire, it was restored in the nineteenth century. It served as a place for worship until 1936, then was used as a store for confiscated Jewish ...
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Str. Ion Brezoianu/Str. Ilfov
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Stacja Kolejowa Sobibór 1, Włodawa +48 82 571 98 67
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Ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67, 20-325 Lublin +48 81 710 28 33
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Kosów Lacki, 08-330 Kosów Lacki +48 25 781 16 58 http://www.treblinka-muzeum.eu/
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Erinnerungsstraße 1, 4310 Mauthausen +43 7238 22690 http://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/
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Alte Römerstraße 75, 85221 Dachau +49 (0) 8131 669970 https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de
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Neuengammer Hausdeich Brücke, 21039 Hamburg
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Strasse der Nationen | D – 16798 Furstenberg/ Havel +49 (0) 33093 6080 http://www.ravensbrueck.de/
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Str. der Nationen 22, 16515 Oranienburg +49 (0) 3301 2000 http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/
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40, Chemin de la Badesse, 13290 Aix-en-Provence (Les Milles) +33 (0) 4 42 39 17 11 http://www.campdesmilles.org/
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Trondheim’s synagogue is doubly unusual: it is the northernmost synagogue in Europe and the only one that has served as a train station, before the building became a synaogue in 1925! Jews first settled in Trondheim in the 1880s. They quickly became very integrated, participation in all economical, social and cultural aspects of life. The Jewish community in Trondheim has never really ...
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