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Bardejov possessed a large Jewish quarter where some 5000 Jews lived before World War II. This small medieval city of 35000 inhabitants lies thirty-seven miles north of Presov near the Polish border. Most of Bardejov’s Jewish community was wiped out during the war. Despite the devastations of the war and postwar reconstruction, a few houses and an interesting eighteenth-century ...
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Not far from Kosice, Presov was also an important center of Jewish life. More than 6000 Jews from the city and surrounding villages were killed during the war. Today fewer than 100 Jews live here in Presov. The area from near the old city center with its Renaissance homes and palace to beyond the city walls once marked the extent of the Jewish quarter. Close to the Jewish community center ...
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The capital of eastern Slovakia, Kosice is a large industrial city of 250000 inhabitants. Its sizable Jewish community was almost totally annihilated during the Second World War. The city os now home to 800 Jews. The spacious nineteenth-century is in a building adjacent to the community headquarters. The building also includes a mikvah, a kosher butcher shop, and a prayer hall. This ...
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Archaeologists have recently unearthed traces of a Jewish presence in Salona (Solin), capital of Roman Dalmatia and sister city to Split, that dates as far back as the first centuries C.E. Salona was destroyed in the seventh century, and its survivors, some of whom were Jewish, took refuge behind the solid walls of Emperor Diocletian’s palace, the origin of present-day Split. ...
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The Ashkenazic synagogue, built in the nineteenth century after a design by Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, was destroyed in 1944. The Sephardic synagogue, built in 1928, is still used by the city’s Jewish residents. The community today consists of around a hundred members, as compared to the nearly 2000 it numbered before the war. The Jewish presence in Rijeka probably dates back ...
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Varazdin is an important trading town located between Vienna and Trieste. The Jewish presence probably dates from the 18th century, mainly from Moravia, Hungary and Austria. They worked there mainly in the cattle trade. Among the town’s most prominent figures was Mirko Breyer, a patriotic author and book collector, who donated many works to national institutions. The synagogue was ...
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Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 10th century, originating from surrounding areas, but also from Spain and France. A place of prayer was mentioned at the end of the 15th century. Following the expulsion of 1526, the Jews were not able to return until two centuries later. About 50 Jewish families from Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary lived in Zagreb ...
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Piran is a former possession of the City of Doges, which explains its Venetian atmosphere. It contains some beautiful architecture, including a replica of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco. This charming little coastal town has preserved its medieval ghetto square, Zidovski Trg, which can be entered through an arcade. The square is surrounded by several multistory houses that undeniably ...
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The only remaining traces of a prior Jewish presence in Ljubljana are the names of two narrow streets in the city center, Street of the Jews (Zidovska ulica) and Passage of the Jews (Zidovska steza), the place of the medieval ghetto until the 1515 expulsion. The remains of a neighborhood of about thirty houses have apparently been found beneath the Baroque buildings here, constructed in the ...
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Charleroi is a city known for having been a very important coal basin, but also as an industrial centre. Since the decline of these industries, the city has invested heavily in cultural development and is particularly appreciated as a historical centre of comics, with the Marcinellois printer Jean Dupuis creating the magazine Spirou in 1938. The Jewish presence in the city is relatively ...
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Ghent is a city known, like Liège, for its student life, but also as an important cultural centre, its port and its ancient textile activity. The Jewish presence in Ghent seems to date back to the 8th century according to some sources. The Jews were expelled from the city in 1125, but were allowed to settle again in the following century. In the following century they were allowed to settle ...
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Kazerne Dossin, 153 Goswin de Stassartstraat, 2800 Mechelen Tel : +32 15 29 06 60 https://www.kazernedossin.eu
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21, rue des Minimes, 1000 Bruxelles + 32 (0) 2 512 19 63 Musée Juif de Belgique – Art et histoire du judaïsme et des Juifs en Belgique. (mjb-jmb.org)
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32, rue de la Régence, 1000 Brussels +32 (0) 2 512 43 34 The Great Synagogue Europe | Synagogue | Bruxelles (synaregence.eu)
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Prinsengracht 263-267, 1016 GV Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 556 7105 http://www.annefrank.org/fr/
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Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, 1011 LM Amsterdam +31 (0) 87 876 5225 http://www.beithachidush.nl/
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Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 173-175, 1011 LN Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 622 5333 https://www.gassan.com/
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Mr. Visserplein 3, 1011 RD Amsterdam Tel : + 31 (0) 206245351 Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente – Official Website of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam (esnoga.com)
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Plantage Kerklaan 61A, 1018 CX Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 620 2535 https://www.verzetsmuseum.org
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Plantage Middenlaan 24, 1018 DE Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 531 0310
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Waterlooplein 2, 1011 NV Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 552 4074 Waterlooplein flea market Amsterdam – The oldest flea market
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St. Antoniebreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam
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Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam Tel : +31 (0) 20 6747 000 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl
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Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam +01131 (0) 20 520 0400 http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/
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