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Until 14 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium On 19 April 1943, the 20th convoy left the transit camp of Mechelen to deport 1,631 Jews to Auschwitz. Resistance actions from both inside and outside the wagons saved 236 of these deportees, who were thus able to jump from the train that was destined for extermination. The contemporary Belgian artist Jo Struyven presents his photographs of ...
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From 16 February to 10 March 2024 at the Kazerne Dossin The exhibition presents a little-known aspect of the Second World War: the fate of homosexuals in various countries such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Numerous unpublished documents illustrate the persecution suffered by homosexual men and women under the Nazi regime. In Germany, 100,000 homosexuals were registered, ...
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11 March 2023 at the Freud Museum Organised as part of the series dedicated to discussions on the theme of “Refugees and Immigration”, a round table discussion brings together Daniela Finzi, Diane O’Donoghue, Emily Kuriloff and Pamela Cooper-White, with moderator Tom Kohut. They will discuss the disappearance of psychoanalytic institutions during the Holocaust. Focusing on ...
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Brno is the capital of Moravia. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 13th century, when the local authorities invited them to settle there without the discriminatory measures imposed in other places at that time. This warm welcome encouraged development and by 1348 there were almost 1000 Jews living there. Graves from this period have even been found. However, the Jews were expelled ...
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Austerlitz, Slavkov u Brna in Czech, is a town most famous for the Napoleonic battle of 1806. The Jewish presence in Moravia is one of the oldest, with a Jewish cemetery dating from the 12th century. Among the illustrious figures from the town is the author of the Sefer ha-Minhagim (1294), Moses ben Tobiah. There was also a yeshiva in Austerlitz at that time. At the beginning of the 17th ...
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Chodova Plana is a town known as an old trade route, for its mines and brewery and the long-standing fights between nobles to rule it. The Jewish presence probably dates from the end of the 16th century. A synagogue was mentioned in 1645, as well as an , where a few hundred graves are located. Threatened with expulsion on several occasions, a Jewish community continued to live there. About ...
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Zatec is an ancient royal city, dating back to at least the 11th century. The Jewish presence in Zatec is very old, dating back to at least the 14th century. However, following attacks and expulsion, their official return only took place at the end of the 19th century. Indeed, only two Jewish families lived in Zatec in 1852. A was opened in 1869 and a inaugurated three years later. At its ...
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Votice is a fairly old town in Bohemia. The Jewish presence dates back at least to the 16th century, with a document from 1538 referring to the town’s Jewish cemetery. About ten Jewish families lived in Votice at that time. A synagogue was built in 1661 (and demolished in 1950). About 50 Jewish families lived there at the turn of the 19th century, most of them working as seed merchants, ...
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Usti Nad Labem is a town of Czech nobility and is known for its chemical industry. The Jewish presence in Usti Nad Labem dates back to at least the 16th century, but was very irregular, as it was restricted by the authorities. It was not until 1848 that Jews were able to settle there officially. Thus the Jewish population of Usti Nad Labem increased from about 100 in 1880 to almost 1000 in ...
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Mlada Boleslav is an old Bohemian town that developed in the industrial age thanks to the automobile industry. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, according to written documents of the time. About ten Jewish families lived in Mlada Boleslav in 1570 and had a synagogue. The dates from 1584. The Jewish population was 120 in 1615. They were mainly active in the transport ...
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Klatovy is a Bohemian town known for its old markets on the roads to nearby larger towns. The Jewish presence in Klatovy has been documented since the 14th century, but was not very present in the following centuries until the 19th century. In the middle of the 19th century, Jews, mostly from the surrounding villages, established a community in Klatovy. A synagogue and a cemetery were opened ...
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Carlsbad, Karlovy Vary in Czech, is a city famous for its spa complex and its festival. The Jewish presence in Carlsbad was “only intermittent” until the middle of the 19th century, being forbidden to stay there and mainly coming to work occasionally from surrounding villages. Others came on holiday. The Jewish communities in Vienna, Prague and Berlin contributed to the creation ...
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Benesov is a town in Bohemia, whose name is derived from its medieval rulers. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, making it one of the oldest in the region. Nevertheless, the community consisted of only a handful of members until the middle of the 19th century. In 1893, the Jews of Benesov and the surrounding villages numbered just under 800 people. The number ...
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Bechyne is a fortified town in the Bohemian region near the Luznice River. It dates back to the Middle Ages and was an important regional centre. It is best known today as a thalassotherapy centre. The Jewish presence in Bechyne dates back to at least the 16th century, as evidenced by administrative documents showing a conflict of interest. The Jewish community consisted of 81 people in 1715 ...
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Cagli is also known for its theatre and, above all, its ancient printing works, one of the oldest in Italy, dating from 1475. The Jewish presence in Cagli dates back to the 14th century, as a document from 1400 attests. They participated in the commercial development of the wool and leather industry, with Salomone di Sabato being particularly prominent in this. A synagogue seems to have been ...
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At the Danish Jewish Museum October 1943, the courage of a people, the courage of a king. A whole population, disregarding social, economic and cultural affiliations to come to the aid of their Jewish compatriots. How a small country deceived the powerful Germany to save the vast majority of Danish Jews. A special exhibition at the Danish Jewish Museum is dedicated to this historical event. ...
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Until April 10th, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Amsterdam This exhibition highlights the friendship between two women, Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Leonie Snatager (1918-2013), at a time of difficult choices during the Second World War. The texts of Etty Hillesum, who was murdered in Auschwitz, have met with great literary success. A biography of the author by Judith Koelemeijer was recently ...
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Until 31 December 2022 In a dozen panels hung on the gates of Francis Lemarque Square, the exhibition presents the faces and names of children deported from the 11th arrondissement, the one most affected by the Vel d’Hiv round-up after the 20th. The exhibition is part of a partnership between the Association of Sons and Daughters of the Deported Jews of France and the Town Hall of the ...
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Until 15 May 2023 Like the other museums that have been assigned MNR items, the museums of the City of Strasbourg are carrying out research to identify the owners of these works, with a view, if necessary, to returning them to their rightful owners. Many of the works stolen by the German occupiers have not yet been returned to their owners who were looted during the war. This research is ...
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From 9 December 2022 to 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial Four generations have travelled far and wide since childhood thanks to the magazines Tintin and Spirou and all their characters, starting with those whose names the magazines bear. Often, these comics were not only aimed at a child audience, or tried to raise their awareness. Émile Bravo, in his fourth and last volume of his series ...
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Until March 2023 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna On 24 October 2022, the Gaon Jewish History Museum in Vilna was honoured to welcome Queen Mathilde of Belgium, the First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausėdienė, and the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, Rudi Vervoort. Welcomed on site by the Lithuanian Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys, they signed a cooperation agreement between the ...
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November 6, 2022 at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute The Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary with a three-part series, co-hosted with the Ghetto Fighters’ House. The series will look at the efforts of Emanuel Ringelblum and other prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto during the war to keep records of the Holocaust. Thus, 35,000 documents in Yiddish, German, Polish and ...
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An was opened during the Second World War near the village of Fossoli. Established by the Italian army in 1942, it served as a prison for Allied soldiers, mainly British. Following the German occupation of the country and with the participation of local soldiers, the prisoners were deported to concentration camps. Within a few weeks, almost 1000 Jews were imprisoned there. In all, 5,000 ...
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The city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I, but heavily permeated by neighboring Italian culture. While the Jewish presence probably dates from the 13th century, recognition of it was not materialized by local authorities until the 16th century. In 1696, a ghetto was erected in the city. During the following century, the Jews were authorized to practice ...
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The first documented traces of the presence of Dijon Jews date from the end of the 12th century. They lived mainly on rue de la Petite-Juiverie, currently called , rue des Juifs, currently and rue de la Grande-Juiverie, currently . The synagogue was on the first of these streets. A Jewish cemetery was located in what is now rue Berlier. About fifty Jewish tumular stones were discovered there ...
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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 by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
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The Jewish presence in the city of Tours dates from at least the 6th century. In the Middle Ages there was a rue de la Juiverie, as well as a Jewish cemetery. However, as in all cities of France, this ancient presence came to an abrupt end with the expulsions of the late Middle Ages. Unlike many cities, the emancipation of Jews from France following the Revolution was slow to materialize in ...
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