Tag | Maidanek Camp

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Maidanek Camp

Ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67, 20-325 Lublin Tel: +48 81 710 28 33

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Treblinka Memorial

Kosów Lacki, 08-330 Kosów Lacki Tel: +48 25 781 16 58 http://www.treblinka-muzeum.eu/

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Mauthausen Memorial

Erinnerungsstraße 1, 4310 Mauthausen Tel: +43 7238 22690 http://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/

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Memorial of Dachau

Alte Römerstraße 75, 85221 Dachau Tel: +49 (0) 8131 669970 https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de

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Ravensbrück Memorial

Strasse der Nationen | D – 16798 Furstenberg/ Havel Tel: +49 (0) 33093 6080 http://www.ravensbrueck.de/

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Trondheim

Norway

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 ...

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Oslo

Norway

It was not until the law passed in 1814, prohibiting the entry of Jews into Norway, was revoked in 1851, that Jews could officially settle in Oslo. A small Jewish community was organised and ...

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Norway

Visitors walking on the street named after Norway's national poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-45) will be reminded that it was Wergeland who was behind the law that allowed Jews to immigrate to this ...

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Sweden

Sweden's Jewish community is the most important one in Scandinavia, as much in terms of the number of practicing faithful (18000-20000) as culturally. In February 2000, the Swedish capital hosted ...

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Denmark

On the approximately 8000 Jews living in the country of Denmark, the great majority of them as Ashkenazim who make Copenhagen their home. In 1968, 2500 Polish Jews fled the anti-Semitic purges ...

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Brody

UkraineEastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...

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Lvov

UkraineEastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...

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Kiev

UkraineFrom Kiev to the Black Sea

The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...

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Ukraine

Ukraine, the largest of the former Soviet Republics, is, along with Belarus and Lithuania, heir to the former "Pale of Settlement", the buffer zone designed t contain the Jews within the ...

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Klooga

Estonia

Of interest in Klooga is the Shoah Victims’ memorial. A concentration camp occupied the site and another was in Vaivara. Between August and September 1943, the 9,000 people still present in ...

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Riga

Latvia

Around 9,000 Jews live in Riga. Riga is also home to the only Jewish hospital in the former Soviet Union. The Latvian Society for Jewish Culture is the principal organization of the Jewish ...

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Panevezys

Lithuania

Panevezys is Lithuanian for Ponevezh, famous for its yeshiva that its prewar leader, Rav Yosef Kahaneman, reestablished following the war in Bnei Brak, the Orthodox quarter of Tel Aviv. ...

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Kaunas

Lithuania

Nothing of the Jewish presence in Kaunas remains but the synagogue, whereas before the war there was a yeshiva, a kosher slaughterhouse, and a prison. The birthplace of Emmanuel Levinas, Kaunas ...

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Vilnius

Lithuania

The capital of Vilnius, once known as the “Jerusalem of the east” has few Jewish monuments today. However, in the last few years, the Museum of the Gaon of Vilnius has made ...

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Gomel

BelarusUkrainian-Russian Border

In 1897, 20,385 Jews lived in Gomel (54.8% of the population), as compared with 37,475 (43.7%) in 1926. Today, little remains of their life here. The Jewish quarter was located on the right bank ...

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Brest (Brest-Litovsk)

BelarusPolish Border

The first city across the Polish border, Brest is located on the right bank of the Bug River. Its name evokes the famous Brest-Litovsk Treaty of April 1918, whereby Trotsky’s Red Army put ...

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Bobruysk

BelarusCentral Belarus

The city of Bobruysk was once a typical Belarusian shtetl. In 1897, 20,759 Jews lived here (60.5% of the population), while in 1926, the Jewish community had a population of 21,558 (42%). To form ...

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Minsk

BelarusCentral Belarus

Minsk, the capital of Belarus, first welcomed Jews in the fifteenth century. They settled here to engage in the trade between Poland and Russia. After Poland was divided, the Jewish community ...

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Subotica

Serbia

The Jewish presence in Subotica probably dates back to the 18th century, when the town was founded. There was a synagogue at the end of that century. Many of Subotica’s Jews took part in ...