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Evora
The city is best known for its historic centre, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Jewish presence is thought to go back a long way, with Evora boasting one of the largest Portuguese ...
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Covilha
Covilha is a town known as an important urban centre in the Portuguese interior. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 12th century. There were three successive Jewish quarters in the ...
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Coimbra
The city of Coimbra is famous for its historic sites and the first Portuguese university founded there in 1290. It was also an important centre of Portuguese Judaism until the Inquisition. During ...
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Castelo Branco
Castelo Branco is known, as the first part of its name suggests, for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 14th century. An organised Jewish community existed in ...
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Beja
Beja is a town in southern Portugal, famous for the battles that have been fought there since the time of Julius Caesar. It was also known as one of the places where rabbinical institutions were ...
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Almeida
A crossroads of exoduses, the town of Almeida, which brings together several former small medieval municipalities, has welcomed many refugees throughout its history. This was also the case during ...
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Sha’ar HaShamaim Synagogue
R. do Brum 16, 9500-085 Ponta Delgada Tel : +351 508 646 0650 https://www.azoreansynagogue.org
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Holocaust Museum of Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre 790, 4150-171 Porto Museu | Museu do Holocausto do Porto | Porto (mhporto.com)
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Jewish Museum of Porto
R. de Guerra Junqueiro 325, 4150-389 Porto Início | Museu Judaico do Porto (mjporto.com)
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“Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah” exhibition
From 1 December 2023 to 25 February 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de la Haute Garonne Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible ...
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“Riss: the Papon trial” exhibition
Until 3 March 2024 at the Shoah Memorial Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Riss was sent by the newspaper to cover this historic trial. It was a long wait for a senior Vichy official to be brought to ...
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Literary meeting “The emergence of the Shoah in the national memory”
3 December 2023 at the Shoah Memorial On the occasion of the publication of the book “Jewish History of France” by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, the theme of the memorial approach to the ...
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“Ginette Kolinka, itinerary of an Auschwitz survivor” exhibition
Until 28 January 2024 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Ginette Kolinka bears witness and accompanies groups of schoolchildren to Auschwitz, where she was deported at the age of 19. She was deported ...
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Exhibition “A child’s author, war stories”
Until 8 July 2024 This bold exhibition tackles the complex question of how to share the memory of the Second World War to children. The Museum invites parents and children to explore four stories ...
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“Survivors of Montluc” exhibition
Until 23 December 2023 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial This exhibition, produced by the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), provides a better ...
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“Jean Moulin, The ways to freedom” exhibition
At the CHRD in Lyon 80 years after the death of the Resistance leader, this exhibition at the CHRD provides an opportunity to learn more about the man through the eyes of those who knew or ...
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Play “The Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem”
27 January 2024 at the Saint-Luc Chapel This play, based on the work of Joseph Kessel, is adapted and directed by Ivan Morane. Kessel was France Soir’s correspondent in Jerusalem in 1961 ...
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Exhibition KL-Natzweiler and the medical faculty of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg
Until 23 December 2023 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members at Natzwiller-Struthof This exhibition, produced in partnership with the University of Strasbourg, highlights the ...
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Conference “How the Nazis photographed their crimes”
28 November 2023 at the Caen Memorial During the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, the Nazis photographed the operation in order to provide their superiors with proof that ...
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Conference “Missak Manouchian, the stateless man in love with his homeland”
30 November 2023 at the Association Cultuelle Juive de Nancy Jean-Pierre Sakoun, historian and research engineer at the CNRS, looks back at the life of the famous Resistance fighter. The ...
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Exhibition “Minor Remnants from Solna Street. Isaac Celnikier and the Holocaust Experience”
Until 16 June 2024 at the JHI This exhibition is devoted to the work of Isaac Celniker, born in Warsaw in 1923 and a survivor of the concentration camps during the Shoah. After the war, he ...
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Commemoration of 26 November
26 November 2023 at the Oslo Jewish Museum Every year on this date, the museum commemorates the deportation of Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. Inger-Lise Rothschild Grusd fled to ...
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Conference “Shoah Remembrance in Luxembourg”
16 January 2024 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights Claude Marx, who is in charge of the archives of the Consistoire israélite, worked on the Commission for the Spoliation of ...
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Book presentation “Fascism’s Grand Council against the Jews: 6-7 October 1938”
23 January 2024 at the Museo Ebraico di Trieste The museum is organising the presentation of historian Giorgio Fabre’s book devoted to this sad era. The book was published by Il Mulino. The ...
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Exhibition “I Sommersi. Roma 16 ottobre 1943”
Until 18 February 2024 at the Musei Capitolini On 16 October 1943, the roundup of the Jewish ghetto in Rome took place. 1,259 people were arrested, including 207 children. Most were deported and ...
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Projection of the documentary “The Photography of Fred Stein: Out of Exile”
3 December 2023 at the Manchester Jewish Museum This documentary presents a figure as little known as he was influential: Fred Stein. The young man was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came ...
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Exhibition “Aunt Olga’s Silver Candlesticks: A Munich Family History”
Until 17 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Munich In 1939, a decree was issued requiring Munich’s Jews to hand over their jewellery and other precious metals, including Sabbath ...
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Exhibition “Outside and Inside the Focus: A Jewish Film History of West Germany”
Until 14 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt With the help of numerous films, the exhibition provides a better understanding of the perception and representation of Jews in 20th century ...