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The City of the Dukes is the historic capital of the States of Savoy. The Jewish presence in Chambéry probably dates back to the 14th century, following Count Edward’s call for their settlement in 1319. Most families lived on rue de la Juiverie, now . This street faced a two-storey tower attached to the castle. They often worked as bankers and pawnbrokers, both because the Church ...
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Annemasse, a town on the border with Geneva, developed mainly in the early 20th century. The Jewish presence in Annemasse probably dates back to the Middle Ages, but was quite small. This changed with the emancipation of the Jews of France following the Revolution, and especially with the arrival in the region of Jews from Alsace-Lorraine. By the turn of the 20th century, Jews were living ...
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This beautiful Alpine town between lake and mountains has been a favorite of residents and tourists alike for centuries. The Jewish presence in Annecy probably dates back to the Middle Ages. They lived on the right bank of the Thiou, outside the fortified city walls. Rue des Juifs (“Street of the Jews) later became Quai de l’Evêché. During the Great Plague, Jews were accused of ...
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As its name suggests, Aix-les-Bains is a renowned French spa. The Jewish presence in Aix-les-Bains probably dates back to the Middle Ages, but was quite small. This changed with the emancipation of the Jews of France following the Revolution, and especially with the arrival in the region of Jews from Alsace-Lorraine. The Jewish community of Aix is best known for its (“The Yechiva of the ...
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Until 16 December 2024 This exhibition allows visitors to experience the feelings of a young man growing up in the Opatow shtetl through the works he created in his adult life. We rediscover the Jewish life of yesteryear, destroyed during the Shoah. This daily life with its poor neighbourhoods made up of wooden houses where Opatow’s Jews lived. The exhibition was produced with the help ...
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28 October 2023 in Esch Various places of remembrance will be visited in Esch during this tour, to retrace the steps of the history of the Shoah, recounting the period of occupation, the fate of the victims and the actions of the Resistance, as well as the Liberation of the town. Among the sites visited: the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights, the Place de la Synagogue and the ...
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Until 15 October 2023 at Museum MAXXI The racial laws implemented in Italy in 1938 turned Jewish life upside down. Nine stories are presented at this event. This event looks at the stories of nine Jewish architects of the period (Daniele Calabi, Angelo Di Castro, Romeo Di Castro, Enrico De Angeli, Vito Latis, Gino Levi Montalcini, Alessandro Rimini, Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Nina Livia ...
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From 9 to 11 October 2023 at the Gregorian University in Milan This conference is organised by five international institutions: the Cardinal Bea Centre at the Pontifical University of Rome; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the Centre for Jewish-Catholic Studies at Saint Leo University in ...
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Until November 26, 2023 at Cercil – Musée Mémorial des enfants du Vel d’Hiv From Calvo’s La Bête est morte (The Beast is Dead) to Spirou, via X-Men, Maus and many others, the theme of the Holocaust has been tackled in many different ways in comics. This exhibition allows visitors to question the visual sources of these representations, their relevance, their scope and their ...
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October 1, 2023 at 2:30 pm at the Mémorial de la Shoah A meeting is organized at the Edmond J. Safra auditorium, to present the texts of three testimonies of the Shoah. Génia Klukowski, born in 1943 at the Swiss Rescue maternity hospital in Elne while her father was murdered in Majdanek, carried out family research long after her reconstruction as an individual, and published ...
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From September 11 to October 8, 2023 This traveling exhibition maps the trajectories of lesbian women during the Second World War. In 2020, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Ravensbrück camp, five trajectories of German and French women were presented: Elsa Conrad, Henny Schermann, Marguerite Chabiron, Suzanne Leclezio and Yvonne Ziegler, arrested and deported ...
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October 15, 2023 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Presented as part of the Drancy Rendez-Vous series, this conference examines the difficult question of how to record genocide in places and times that were not conducive to its transmission. How it is passed on to future generations, and how it is rebuilt. And how to rebuild. The daughter of a camp survivor returns to these questions. In ...
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November 18, 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère A participatory workshop lets visitors create posters based on the front pages of newspapers from the period. Using simple cutting and pasting techniques, participants can choose to take their inspiration from the original or create their own, very different posters. This workshop is led by bookseller Gaëlle ...
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September 23, 2023 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mémorial de Montluc The last Auschwitz survivor in Lyon, Claude Bloch, now 94, is continuing his work of remembrance, passing on his story and giving testimonials in local schools. Arrested at the age of 15 with his mother and grandfather in June 1944, he was interned at Montluc, transferred to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944. ...
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At the CHRD Lyon Nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon for his particularly brutal methods, Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1943 to 1945, responsible for hunting down Resistance fighters, Communists and Jews. Arrested in Bolivia in 1983, he was tried four years later for crimes against humanity. This trial, which left its mark on people’s minds, opened the door to questions ...
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From September 16, 2023 at Struthof CERD is setting up this collaborative memorial project, in reference to the Keitel decree ordering the deportation of opponents of the Nazi regime. A participatory device, installed in the CERD lobby, where each visitor is invited to write the name of a NN deportee and hang it on the tree of memory, in homage to these freedom fighters who fell victim to ...
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Until 6 October 2023 at the Maison d’Izieu Memorial Museum To mark the 80th anniversary of the opening of the “Colonie des enfants réfugiés de l’Hérault”, the Musée-mémorial is devoting an exhibition to life at the Colonie in 1943. 35 original documents provide a better understanding of daily life at the Colonie during the first months in which children hidden during ...
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Until 30 September 2023 at the Lieu de Mémoire Chambon-sur-Lignon In 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the first pages of La Grande Rafle du Vel d’Hiv by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this publication, the editorial team called on a young 29-year-old cartoonist, Jean Cabut, known as Cabu. This exhibition, organised by Véronique Cabut, his ...
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Until 3 September 2023 This themed trail allows visitors to (re)discover the important places and figures, famous or not, in the history of Lyon’s Resistance. The buildings, steles and street name plaques that house these pages of history and/or pay tribute to them. https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/musee/parcours-urbain/lieux-secrets-de-la-resistance
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Until 31 August 2023 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial. The Memorial organises guided tours of the site of the former camp, as well as of the permanent exhibition that traces its history. Every Sunday, a return shuttle service is organised from the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
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22 July 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance de Haute-Garonne To mark the 80th anniversary of the execution of Marcel Langer by the Vichy government, the public is invited to discover his story and that of the 35th F.T.P-M.O.I. Brigade. The museum’s collections highlight the involvement of foreign Resistance fighters who served in these brigades. This project is being run by the ...
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Until 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial To mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in May 1943 and the creation of the CDJC (Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation) the previous month, the Shoah Memorial is staging an exhibition in the Alley of the Righteous, retracing the history of these two events, each of which marked 1943 in its own way. The event is coordinated ...
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1 September 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This film, directed by Jonathan Barré in 2016, presents the adventures of Max and Léon, two childhood friends, lazy, partying and clumsy, who try by all means to escape the Second World War. A screening organised in partnership with the Grenoble Cinémathèque. ...
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Until 20 July 2023 at the Struthof camp The exhibition, which opened on 8 May, comprises 12 panels hung on the gates of the Palais du gouverneur militaire in Strasbourg (on the Place Broglie side). The photographs were taken on the site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp, better known in France as the Struthof camp. They include a general view of the camp, one of its watchtowers, the ...
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Until 14 January 2024 at Museum Dorotheergasse The photographer Maria Austria, born Marie Östreicher in Karlovy Vary in 1915, moved to Vienna in the 1930s to study at the Federal Institute for Graphic Education and Research. After working briefly as a press photographer, she emigrated to Amsterdam in 1937, where she founded the Studio Model en Foto Austria. After the Nazi invasion of the ...
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These are organised in the house that celebrates the memory of the Japanese diplomat who saved more than 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust by granting them visas. These tours also take place remotely in a virtual experience to share the history and values of Chiune Sugihara. https://www.sugiharahouse.com/#/en/VIRTUAL-TOURS-event
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Until 16 December 2023 at the Polin Museum The works of Mayer Kirshenblatt provide a better understanding of the life of a child in the shtetl on the eve of the Second World War. The exhibition will explore the transmission of Jewish history, particularly in towns where their presence is only written in the past tense. Pieces of wood from the old houses of the Opatow shtetl, which are in the ...
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Hameenlinna is an old Finnish town, known for the many lakes that run through it and the surrounding area. But also for the traces of its medieval life and the Hame Castle. Before Finland’s independence, Russian soldiers, including Jews, were stationed here. The town’s , founded in the 1770s, has a Jewish plot. Russian soldiers of the Jewish faith are buried there, with most of ...
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Hamina is the easternmost town in the country and dates back to at least the 14th century. Today, it is known for its port, forestry industry and special climate. Russian soldiers were stationed here before independence, as the town lies a few kilometres from the present-day border with Russia. The town’s , founded in 1773, has a Jewish plot. Russian soldiers of the Jewish faith are ...
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Tampere is the second largest city in Finland and is located between two lakes. It is a relatively new city, founded in 1775 by Gustav III of Sweden, with the aim of facilitating trade in the region. A Jewish community was established in the city in 1947. However, this community, consisting of less than a hundred people, ceased to exist in 1981 due to numerous departures. Only nine members ...
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