Location
Memorial of the Shoah in France
The construction of the Memorial of the Shoah in France began in 1953, by international subscription, on land made available by the City of Paris. The origins of the project can be traced back to ...
News
“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 ...
Site
Pavartyciai
News
Exhibition “The Year 1943 at the Colony”
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 ...
News
An urban trail devoted to the secret places of the Résistance
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 ...
News
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition
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 ...
News
Guided tour in tribute to Marcel Langer
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 ...
News
Exhibition “Pop years, shock years 1960-1975”
Until 31 December 2023 at the Caen Memorial This exhibition looks at the social, political and cultural protest movements in France between 1960 and 1975. These movements were often born in ...
News
Exhibition “Year 1943: the Warsaw ghetto and the creation of the CDJC”
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 ...
News
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 ...
News
Exhibition “Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah”
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, ...
Location
Birmingham
Around 1730, the first Jews settled in the city of Birmingham. The city’s first glass kiln was built by Meyer Oppenheim around 1760. A synagogue was established in the 1780s in the Froggery ...
Location
Brest
During the 1808 census, only the presence of 34 Jews was counted in the department. In 1816, Simon and Michel Lipman, merchants, asked for the possibility of obtaining a Jewish cemetery in Brest. ...
Location
Saint-Malo
, nicknamed the “rue des juifs” near the Qui qu’i ‘en grogne tower, leads to what is now Place Chateaubriand. As early as the 16th century, we find traces of a Jewish ...
Location
Brittany
Little is known about the history of the Jews in Gallo-Roman Armorica before the Council of Vannes which, around 465, legislated on their relations with clerics. Their ancient and lasting ...
Location
Nantes
Land near the ramparts of Nantes was sold by Guillaume to Théodore, a Jew from Rennes, and to the Jews of Nantes to establish a cemetery. Nevertheless, five years later, the Jews of the region ...
Location
Montbéliard
The presence of Jews in Montbéliard and in the region seems to date back to the 13th century. The expulsions will cause the departure of the Jews from the territory. There is a trace of a mention ...
Location
Fontainebleau
It seems that the presence in Seine-et-Marne dates from the Middle Ages. Among the towns where they settled are Meaux, Lagny, Provins, Melun, Livry-sur-Seine, Bray-sur-Seine, Foljuif, Nemours, ...
Location
Clermont-Ferrand
The official formation of a community in Clermont-Ferrand dates back to 1808, when Israel Waël, who then headed it, donated a garden to establish a Jewish cemetery. David Marx, the Chief Rabbi of ...
Location
Nancy
A student city with magnificent museums, notably around the incomparable Stanislas Square, Nancy is one of the jewels of Lorraine, paying tribute to different periods of classical and modern art. ...
Location
Lille
The Jewish presence in Lille is indicated from the Middle Ages. Many “rue des Juifs” existed in the region at this time, notably in Lille, Bavai, Maroilles and Sains. In 1023, thirty Jews from ...