Tag | Exhibition “Snapshots of the conquerors 1941-1944. The Assael Collection”

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Thann

FranceAlsace

A Jewish community existed in Thann as early as the 13th century. In 1350, sources report a Jewish street in the northeastern part of the city. This community remained important: there were ...

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Erstein

FranceAlsace

The Jews of Erstein were not allowed to settle in the city until 1850. Some were allowed to work there during the day, but had to return in the evening to the towns in the region that were more ...

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Malmö

Sweden

Danish Jews evacuated during the Nazi occupation arrived by boat in Malmö thanks to Count Folke Bernadotte. Some Jews died after their arrival and are buried in the city cemetery, where a ...

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Les Milles

FranceProvence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

When war was declared in September 1939, the authorities opened an assembly camp in a tileworks in the village Les Milles. Here they assembled foreign nationals from the hostile powers: anti-Nazi ...

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Izieu

FranceAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes

During the Nazi occupation, this village in the department of Ain was the scene of a raid ordered by Klaus Barbie on 6 April 1944. Forty-four Jewish refugee children and their seven teachers were ...

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

France

Jews lived in Roman Lugdunum but disappeared from Lyon because of the expulsions. It was only under the reign of Louis XV that a community was re-created with immigrants from Comtat Venaissin and ...