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Ostrava
The city of Ostrava is best known for its economic activity. It was one of the great coal mining regions and a major ironworks. The Jewish presence in the city was rather late, being limited by ...
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Osoblaha
Osoblaha is a Silesian village popular with contemporary tourists for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence probably dates back to this period and was quite stable over the centuries until ...
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Olomouc
Olomouc was the capital of Moravia from the 14th to the 17th centuries and a major trading town at that time. The Jewish presence is very old and seems to date from the 11th century. Documents ...
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Kojetin
Kojetin is a Moravian town that has been known as a commercial crossroads for centuries and now hosts many cultural events. The Jewish presence in Kojetin seems to date back to at least the 13th ...
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The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto
May 18 – September 24, 2023 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, USA In 1945, the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl was found in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It had been written by Rywka Lipszyc and ...
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Exhibition “To paint is to live: The Artwork of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly”
Until April 30, 2023 at the Michigan Holocaust Center The exhibition explores the life and work of Hrusov-born Erich Lichtblau-Leskly (1911-2004), a Czech Jewish artist who used art and satire as ...
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Exhibition “Spirou by Emile Bravo: a childhood under the occupation”
Until 31 August 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance in Limoges Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible period of the occupation. The daily life of the ...
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Exhibition “Being Jewish in the Cher region (1939-1945)”
Until 12 March 2023 at the Archives départementales du Cher, rue Jean-Marie Heurtault de Lamerville, 18000 Bourges This exhibition highlights the situation of the thousands of inhabitants of ...
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Exhibition “You will remember me: words and drawings by the children of the Maison d’Izieu, 1943-1944”
Until 23 July 2023 at the mahJ 150 photographs, archive documents and children’s drawings made by the residents of this colony which served as a refuge for them during the Second World War ...
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Exhibition “Fighting against oblivion: objects as heritage”
Until 20 February 2023 at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of donations received by the museum from people wishing to bequeath ...
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Meeting with Boris Cyrulnik
20 February 2023 at the Maimonides Institute As part of the Maimonides Encounters, this one is proposed around the books Psychotherapy of God and Chérif Mécheri, Prefect of Courage under the ...
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Exhibition “The School and the Resistance. From the dark days to the aftermath of the Liberation (1940-1945)”
At the Shoah Memorial This travelling exhibition, consisting of 24 panels, is intended for students from the 3rd to the 12th grade. It looks at the way in which the spirit of the Third Republic ...
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Days of reflection on faith and deportation
16 and 17 March 2023 at the headquarters of the Grand Est Region The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members is organising this event, which brings together a dozen speakers and examines ...
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Presentation of the play “Address Unknown”
28 and 29 March 2023 at the Théâtre de l’Espérance Kressmann Taylor’s masterpiece evokes the meeting and friendship between two Germans, a Jew and a non-Jew. Their strong bond and the ...
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Aid to Jewish refugees in Switzerland
15 March 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland A series of cultural events will be held on Wednesday mornings at the Museum. This one will deal with the fate of Jewish refugees in Switzerland ...
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Guided tour of the memory trail
18 February 2023 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights This visit allows you to rediscover the architectural heritage of Esch, as well as its history. More specifically, the city ...
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Virtual exhibition “The Riga Ghetto in the Drawings of Aleksandra Belcova”
At the Jewish Museum of Latvia A presentation of these works is proposed to examine how individuals react to tragedies that take place in their vicinity. The exhibition, together with the history ...
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Presentation of the book « Rosalia Poropat, from Auschwitz to Ravensbruck »
14 February 2023 at the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum A presentation that will take place in the presence of Dunja Nanut (President of ANED Trieste), Franco Cecotti (Vice President of ANED ...
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Launch of the European project “Her Stories”
From 6 February 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Greece A project with five other European partners: Centropa Zentrum (Hamburg), Centropa Alipitvany (Hungary), Jugend & Kulturprojekt (Dresden), ...
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Exhibition “236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th Convoy”
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 ...
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Exhibition “Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe”
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, ...
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Conference “Genocide : What Psychoanalysis Lost in the Holocaust”
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 ...
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Brno
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 ...
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Austerlitz
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 ...
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Chodova Plana
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 ...
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Zatec
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 ...
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Votice
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 ...
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Usti Nad Labem
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 ...
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Mlada Boleslav
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 ...
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Klatovy
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 ...