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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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September 27, 2023 at Blixen, Den Sorte Diamant, Søren Kirkegaard plads 1, KBH This lecture by Simon Kratholm Andkjærgaard is produced in partnership with the Danish Jewish Museum and the Society for Danish Jewish History. It looks back at the night of the 1st and 2nd of October when the Germans attacked the Danish Jews and the courage of the people to save them afterwards. The events of the ...
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Until 1 October 2023 at the Centre Emanuel Ringelblum The exhibition will show how the Jewish uprising was perceived by post-war artists. A wide variety of objects in a wide variety of styles, such as Soviet realist paintings, illustrations from the Jewish press, photos and drawings… Objects largely from the Jewish Historical Institute. Numerous events will accompany the exhibition: ...
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The Jewish community has existed since Visigothic times and grew considerably under the Muslim occupation. When the first Christian troops arrived in 1266 under the command of Alfonso X of Castile, there were many synagogues, but most of the Jews preferred to leave the city and take refuge in Granada, which was still in Muslim hands. A few years later, Alfonso X the Wise sought to repopulate ...
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19 April 2023 at the Paris City Hall The commemoration of this act of inestimable courage will take place in the Grands Salons of the Hotel de Ville. How a handful of surviving men and women in terrible conditions took up arms against the powerful Nazi army. The event is organised in partnership with the Medem Centre. Due to limited space, registration on their website is required. ...
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From 23 April 2023 to 3 September 2023 A city torn between the actions of monsters and heroes during the war, many places in Lyon allow you to (re)discover this history, in particular some little-known courageous acts of the Resistance. The walk will allow you to visit the places, buildings, steles, plaques and street names that illustrate the key events of the 1939-1945 period. ...
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16 April 2023 at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy A lighting of candles in memory of the victims of the Shoah and songs from the Kaddish, El Maleh Rahamim and the Song of the Partisans will accompany the discussion between Audrey Kichelewski, Didier Francfort and Anna Zielinska (from the Polin Museum in Warsaw) on the theme “Why and how to make the history of Jewish resistance ...
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24 June 2023 With the gradual disappearance of the last survivors of the Shoah, these testimonies are all the more precious. Even more so in this period of rising populism. Claude Bloch, now 94 years old, is the last survivor of Auschwitz in Lyon. Arrested in June 1944, he was interned in Montluc before being deported. He still speaks regularly in schools. ...
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Until 27 May 2023 at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation The exhibition brings together the fruits of Michael Kenna’s twelve years of work photographing Nazi camps during his travels in Europe. In partnership with the Musée de la Résistance Nationale, the MDR&D presents 64 prints from this series. Places of extermination and memories, landscapes and words ...
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21 May 2023 at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy On the occasion of the publication of Sortis de l’ombre. Gypsies, Resistance fighters and Communists. Investigation into the ignored massacres of the “Das Reich” division by Gilles Alfonsi, the conference will review the conclusions of the book’s author in his presence. In a conversation with Eduardo Castillo, he answers the ...
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