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8 December 2024 at 2pm at the Shoah Memorial For the Nazis, the Shoah was not an ambition limited to Europe. The advance of the Allied troops prevented this ambition to materialize on every continent. Nevertheless, the occupation of Tunisia by Axis forces raised fears of a fate similar to that of European Jews, with brutal measures taken against the local Jewish population. Fortunately, the ...
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Until 11 January 2025 at CHRD A tour in which first-hand accounts and objects from the period provide a better understanding of the complexity of the actions of the Lyon Resistance and the issues at stake at the time. It’s also about the complexity of combining the motivations for armed involvement of the different currents of the Resistance and optimising the contributions. The ...
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At the Judeo-Alsatian Museum in Bouxwiller Norbert and Moritz Max Neiger contributed to the glory of their Czech town, Gablonz, by developing the diamond industry there, creating fabulous Art Deco jewellery for the costume jewellery market. The German invasion and annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 led to the disappearance of most of Bohemia’s Jewish communities. The Neiger family ...
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Levie is a village in Southern Corsica allowing visitors to discover the Alta Rocca museum and numerous archaeological sites. The Jewish presence here appears to date back to the 9th century, when Egyptian Jewish families settled here. This is probably the oldest migration of Jews to the island outside Roman times.
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Asco is a village located at an altitude of 600 meters, built in the 11th century, known in particular for its Genoese bridge, its church and its natural park. During the Shoah, an internment camp was set up in the town of Asco. This followed the requisition of a school building by the occupying Italian authorities in 1943. 86 Jews from Ajaccio and Bastia, men aged between 18 and 60, were ...
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The Isle of Beauty, the Island of the Righteous Some historians claim that the Jewish presence in Corsica dates back to Roman times, after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the forced expulsion of a large proportion of the inhabitants by the Roman occupiers. At the turn of the 9th century, Jews from Egypt settled in southern Corsica, near the village of Levie. Following the ...
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At the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights, on 17 November 2024 at 7.30pm In this lecture, historians Daniel Thilman and Karola Fings will focus on the history of the Porajmos, the murder of the Sinti and Roma, as well as the fight for remembrance and the historical treatment of this genocide. The lecture is part of the ‘Forgotten Victims’ exhibition, which is on show at the museum ...
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15 October 2024, 8pm at the Medem Centre This lecture by Sylvie Drumlewicz-Lidgi looks at the little-studied subject of the impact of the Shoah in the part of Poland occupied by Soviet troops following their pact with the Nazi regime to divide the country between the two dictatorships. The difficult conditions of survival during the war for these Polish Jews, who were spared the fate of other ...
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Until the end of September 2023 The exhibition accompanies the March of Remembrance. It presents the organisation of the resistance within the ghetto, which, after many months of preparation, led the courageous and historic revolt. This was achieved in a number of different areas: military, educational, community and the establishment of links in secrecy beyond the ghetto in order to find ...
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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 Sunday, a return shuttle service is organised from the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
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1 September 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This film, directed by Jonathan Barré in 2016, presents the adventures of Max and Léon, two childhood friends, lazy, partying and clumsy, who try by all means to escape the Second World War. A screening organised in partnership with the Grenoble Cinémathèque. ...
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Until 20 July 2023 at the Struthof camp The exhibition, which opened on 8 May, comprises 12 panels hung on the gates of the Palais du gouverneur militaire in Strasbourg (on the Place Broglie side). The photographs were taken on the site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp, better known in France as the Struthof camp. They include a general view of the camp, one of its watchtowers, the ...
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Until 27 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Belgium Four women artists, each renowned for her contribution to a particular art form: filmmaker Chantal Akerman, sculptor Marianne Berenhaut, painter Sarah Kaliski and photographer Julia Pirotte. These Brussels Jewish women from different generations were affected by the Shoah, either directly or through their relatives. This choral exhibition ...
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19 August 2023 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights This tour will enable you to discover the various places of remembrance in the town, marking both the period of occupation and the great hours of liberation. The tour will also look back at the architectural development of Esch in the 20th century. The tour will also take in the architectural development of Esch in the 20th ...
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19 April 2023 at the Paris City Hall The commemoration of this act of inestimable courage will take place in the Grands Salons of the Hotel de Ville. How a handful of surviving men and women in terrible conditions took up arms against the powerful Nazi army. The event is organised in partnership with the Medem Centre. Due to limited space, registration on their website is required. ...
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From 23 April 2023 to 3 September 2023 A city torn between the actions of monsters and heroes during the war, many places in Lyon allow you to (re)discover this history, in particular some little-known courageous acts of the Resistance. The walk will allow you to visit the places, buildings, steles, plaques and street names that illustrate the key events of the 1939-1945 period. ...
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Until 27 May 2023 at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation The exhibition brings together the fruits of Michael Kenna’s twelve years of work photographing Nazi camps during his travels in Europe. In partnership with the Musée de la Résistance Nationale, the MDR&D presents 64 prints from this series. Places of extermination and memories, landscapes and words ...
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21 May 2023 at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy On the occasion of the publication of Sortis de l’ombre. Gypsies, Resistance fighters and Communists. Investigation into the ignored massacres of the “Das Reich” division by Gilles Alfonsi, the conference will review the conclusions of the book’s author in his presence. In a conversation with Eduardo Castillo, he answers the ...
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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 tools of coping and resistance during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt camp. He made these works in secret, presenting the brutality of everyday life. His wife saved these works by hiding them ...
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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 Alsace-Moselle, including hundreds of Jews, who found refuge in the Cher. When arrests took place in the occupied zone, some tried to cross the demarcation line. Many were arrested and executed. Archival ...
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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 are presented in this exhibition. Individual drawings, but also complete stories. 105 Jewish children lived there from 1943 to 1944. 44 of these children and 7 animators were rounded up by the Nazis. ...
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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 objects that bear witness to this period, the institution is honouring these donors. These transmitters of memory are fighting against hatred and oblivion. Only 1% of the more than 8,000 documents ...
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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 the relationships underlying the association of faith and deportation. In particular, religious practice in the camps. The programme is a continuation of last year’s event on the same themes. ...
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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 evolution of this friendship and their perception of the historical events in progress. The play is presented by the Hamacom troupe. ...
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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 from 1935 to 1955 and the help they received.
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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 centre at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Shoah. The themes of the Nazi occupation, the resistance and the fate of the Jews are addressed. In particular around the Stolpersteine, the ...
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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 Trieste), Tristano Matta (historian) and Michelle Visentini (great-granddaughter of Rosalia Poropat). A reconstruction of Rosalia Poropat’s story is carried out, from her arrest in her town of Dane, ...
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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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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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