Exhibition at the Montluc Memorial On 11 August 1944, ten passenger carriages left the Lyon Perrache station for the Paris transit camps. On board, about 650 Resistance prisoners, Jews, hostages, rounded up, most of them taken from the cells of the Montluc prison. Following sabotage by the Resistance and Allied bombings, the train found itself unable to reach Paris and this simple transfer of ...
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Guided tour of the exhibition “You won’t go dancing anymore! Clandestine dances 1939-1945”
From May 1940 until April 1945, dances in all their forms were banned on French territory. Dancing, a major leisure activity for French youth between the two world wars, came to a halt. Prevented, repressed and sanctioned by the Vichy regime, because it defied morality and good manners, the ball became clandestine. How was the ban transgressed? What music is played? What cultures of the body ...
Plus d'infosCentre de la Résistance, de la déportation et de la mémoire
6 Place Victor Hugo, 41000 Blois https://www.blois.fr/attractive/remarquable/centre-de-la-resistance
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The Jewish presence in Blois seems to date from the end of the 10th century. But the city was infamous for the first anti-Semitic charge of ritual murder in 1171. About 40 Jews lived there then. Isaac Ben Eleazar was accused of having thrown a child in the Loire. 33 Jews were imprisoned and murdered following this false accusation based on unfounded rumors and the transmission of anti-Semitic ...
Plus d'infosCenter for the History of the Resistance and Deportation
14 Avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon Tel : 04 72 73 99 00 https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/
Plus d'infosExhibition: Witnessing these lives / Von diesen Leben zeugen
Until June 1, 2021 The bilingual open-air exhibition is on display at Place de la Resistance in Esch-sur-Alzette. It features 30 large-format panels showing works by French artist Francine Mayran. These paintings deal with the memory of the Second World War, the Shoah and the Porajmos, the genocide of the Roma, but also forced displacement and flight. The plastic treatment of paintings takes ...
Plus d'infosVolos
A port city, the Jewish community has been present in Volos since the Antiquity era. Probably from the 2nd century BC, ancient tombs attesting according to historians. But the certainties between experts on the exact moment concerning this city are not yet established. Benjamin de Tudela noted the presence of Jews in the region in his famous travel accounts. Over the centuries a number of ...
Plus d'infosToulouse
Administrative archival documents date the presence of Jews in Toulouse to the 800s. The city of Toulouse is part of this flourishing Jewish life from the Middle Ages close to Spain and Languedoc. As confirmed by the presence in the 11th century of Moses Hadarshan (originally from Narbonne) and his son Judah, whose pupil, Menahem Bar Helbo, will introduce Rashi to Mediterranean Jewish ...
Plus d'infosGrenoble
In 894, a diploma from the King of Provence Louis the Blind in favor of the bishop of Grenoble mentions the Jews. Other administrative documents of the region then refer to it during the Middle Ages, such as a diploma from the king of Burgundy Rodolphe III which mentions vines of “Jewish property” from Viennese. The Jewish presence is mentioned in Grenoble in the 13th century. A ...
Plus d'infosMusée national de la Résistance
Place de la Résistance, 4041 Esch-sur-Alzette bienvenue
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Place de la Constitution, Luxembourg
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The first documents attesting to the presence of Jews in Luxembourg date from 1276, when an act mentions the Jewish religion of Henri de Luxembourg. The Jews have lived in the Pétrusse valley at the time. Persecutions, leading in some cases to death, followed charges of poisoning wells during the plague epidemic of 1348. The Jews who survived these persecutions fled the country, from which ...
Plus d'infosJean Moulin Center of Bordeaux
48 rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux Tél : 05 56 10 19 90
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On the approximately 8000 Jews living in the country of Denmark, the great majority of them as Ashkenazim who make Copenhagen their home. In 1968, 2500 Polish Jews fled the anti-Semitic purges led by the Communist government there and settled in the capital and in Arhus.
Plus d'infosNovi Sad
The Jewish community of Voivodina’s capital was, until World War II, one of the most prosperous in all Yugoslavia. Present since the city was founded in the late seventeenth century and 4000 members strong before its extermination, the community was keen on building structures to rival those of other ethnic groups in this majority-Hungarian Catholic city (it belonged to the ...
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After the conquest of Belgrade by the Turks in 1521, Sephardic Jews quickly supplanted in number the Ashkenazic community that had arrived before them, from Hungary in particular. Loyal Turkish subjects, Belgrade’s Jews enjoyed an initial phase of relative prosperity, transforming the city into one of the premier Sephardic centers in the Balkans. The Belgrade yeshiva was known ...
Plus d'infosTurin
Turin, the capital of Piedmont, is a good point of departure for visiting other Jewish places of remembrance in the region. Turin was first the capital of the Duché de Savoie, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Jewish presence was recorded by the Bishop Maximus of Turin as early as the fourth century. The only trace of Jewish presence to have been recorded then on only appeared a thousand ...
Plus d'infosLyon
The Jewish community in the historical capital of the Gauls and, for historians, capital of the French Resistance, has now regained an undeniable dynamism. There are many notable sites surrounding the , built in 1864, as well as some excellent kosher restaurants. All in all, they make Lyon a very pleasant stop. Event information is available from the Chief Rabbinate. As in many French ...
Plus d'infosAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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 Alsace. The region is associated primarily with World War II and the French Resistance. The notorious war criminal Klaus Barbie, who was tried in 1986, was the head of the Lyon Gestapo.
Plus d'infosSerbia and Montenegro (ex-Yugoslavia)
Serbia and Voivodina form, along with Montenegro, a nation that had been called The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 4 February 2003, when it was renamed Serbia and Montenegro. The Serbian and Voivodinan regions witnessed one of the first implementations of the Final Solution, its Jewish population as brutally martyred by German troops as were Jews in Poland or the Soviet Union. In fact, ...
Plus d'infosSlovenia
A Slavic land under Germanic rule for many centuries, Slovenia finally gained independence in 1991. The fate of the Jewish population here depended largely over the years on the good will of its princes. Nonetheless, the Jewish presence in the region goes back to antiquity. Archaeological digs have revealed a tomb engraved with a menorah at the Skocjan site, which likely dates back to the ...
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