Women of the 1940s

The place given to women and the way we look at them are some of the challenges that drive our society today. Far from the posterity of men, women and their actions have often been forgotten or little valued, especially in the story of the Second World War. Yet, whether they are resistance fighters, collaborationists, soldiers, Jews, mothers or housewives, women have had to position ...

Homecoming 1945-47. Exhibition on coming home after WWII

The Homecoming Exhibition 1945 – 47 at the Jewish Museum in Trondheim is an exhibition and website based on the experience of the return of Jews from Trondheim after World War II. The exhibition is temporary and will last for one year. The exhibit marks the museum’s 75th anniversary since the end of World War II and the end of the Holocaust. By the end of the war in 1945, the ...

Your Legacy and Me

Discover Your Legacy and Me, a creative project and free exhibition exploring the legacy of the Holocaust, created by the Holocaust Educational Trust’s young ambassadors. Following a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and hearing first hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor, the young ambassadors were tasked with ensuring the Holocaust is remembered for generations; sharing their ...

Pierre Dac. Du côté d’ailleurs

The mahJ will be showing the first exhibition entirely devoted to Pierre Dac (1893-1975). More than 250 family archive documents and excerpts from films and television and radio programmes will highlight the life and work of this master of the absurd, one of the founder figures of contemporary French humour. From Thursday 15 October 2020 to Sunday 28 February 2021 Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 ...

Musée national de la Résistance

Place de la Résistance, 4041 Esch-sur-Alzette bienvenue

Holocaust Memorial of the city of Luxembourg

Place de la Constitution, Luxembourg

Jean Moulin Center of Bordeaux

48 rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux Tél : 05 56 10 19 90

Nissim de Camondo Museum

63 rue Monceau, 75008 Paris Tél : 01 53 89 06 50

Memorial Monument of Sighet

Strada Gheorghe Doja 75, Sighet

Jewish Memorial of Heidelberg

Grosse Mantelgasse 69115 Heidelberg

Utrecht

The Netherlands

Jews have lived in Utrecht on and off, and under varying circumstances, since the 14th century. During the 15th century, Jews lived in the center of the city in a street that is still called (Jew’s Row), located in a courtyard behind the Bakkerstraat. In 1546, King Charles V banned Jews from residing within the entire bishopric of Utrecht. Therefore, the first Jew to obtain citizenship ...

Rotterdam

The Netherlands

In 1610, the city fathers of Rotterdam issued permits to engage in trade within the city to small number of Portuguese Jewish merchants. The permits guaranteed freedom of worship and the right to build a synagogue and establish a cemetery. In 1612, these provisions were challenged by the local Remonstrant Church. This prompted a number of Jewish families to depart Rotterdam for Amsterdam. ...

Veghel

The Netherlands

Several Jewish families settled in Veghel during the 18th century (around 1731) despite the opposition of local authorities. Most of the Jews who settled in Veghel came to the village from nearby Nistelrode or Dinther. During the second quarter of the 19th century, an organized Jewish community was established in Veghel. The community at Veghel opened a synagogue on the Achterdijk, the ...

Vinnytsa

Ukraine > From Kiev to the Black Sea

Located in Podolia, equidistant from Kiev and Odessa, Vinnytsa is a city of cobbled streets, elegant avenues and numerous gardens, still very marked by its Polish past. Its foundation dates back to the 14th century, when Podolia entered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Integrated into the Republic of Poland-Lithuania at the end of the 16th century, it was then the capital of the province of ...

Compiègne

The Compiègne Memorial was inaugurated in 2008. Since then, more than 90000 people visited the museum. Between 1941 and 1944, this camp was one of the principal transit points of France. About 45000 were imprisoned in Compiègne: political prisoners, mostly communists, and foreigners (Russians, Americans and Jews). The museum is now housed in the barracks.

Erstein

France > Alsace

Jews were only allowed to establish in Erstein in 1850. The synagogue was destroyed in April 1941 by the Nazis and its furnitures sold at auctions. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1957 and is still active today.

Sabbioneta

Italy > Lombardy

Sabbioneta is a special city: it was created in the sixteenth century by prince Vespasiano I Gonzaga Colonna according to the architectural principles of the Renaissance. In this “ideal city”, a Jewish ghetto was included. In 1551, Tobias Foa opened an Hebrew printing house in Sabbioneta. Although the community was described as “lively” in the nineteenth century, there ...

Naples

Italy > Southern Italy

A small community lived in Naples between the first century and the expulsion in 1541. Jews came back to Naples in 1831. They were about 1000 at the beginning of the twentieth century and 534 after the war (14 members of the community were deported). Today the community numbers around 200 members. The city’s synagogue, located Via Cappella Vecchia also houses the Jewish community of ...

Lecce

Lecce had one of the most prominent Jewish settlements in the Neapolitan kingdom before the expulsion of the Jews. Though there is no evidence of a Jewish presence prior to the 15th century, there are traces its existence Lecce at the time of the Normans (G. T. Tanzi, “Gli Statuti della Città di Lecce,” p. 19, Lecce, 1898). Their occupations were mostly textile dyeing (silk and wool), ...

Bari

Unlike other cities in the region of Apulia, there are now very few traces of the Jewish presence in Bari, although we know that the community was very developed. The city was, in the 12th century, a recognized center of Talmudic studies. The which housed the place of worship of the community – now renamed Via Sabino attests of the importance of the Jewish life in Bari. In the of the ...

Rakovnik

Czech Republic > Bohemia

Rakovnik is located between Prague and Plzen; 32 miles west of Prague, and 30 milesnortheast of Plzen. Jews are on record as living in Rakovnik since 1441. Between 1618 and 1621 three Jewish families from the nearby town of Senomaty came to live at Rakovnik. In 1690 there were 38 Jews living in the town and 1724 seven Jewish families had made Rakovnik their home. The Jewish community was ...

Breclav

Czech Republic > Moravia

The Jewish presence in Breclav dates to the sixteenth century. The ghetto, constructed in the seventeenth century can still be visited. The neo-Roman style Synagogue built in 1888. Closed by the Nazis, it served as a warehouse for a half century. The synagogue today houses a cultural center, an exhibition hall and an auditorium. In 2000, a plaque was affixed in the synagogue’s entrance ...

Polná

Czech Republic > Bohemia

Polná is located in Bohemia, about 70 miles South West of Prague. Jews started settling in Polná in the fifteenth century. The ghetto was created in the seventeenth century, some houses can still be seen. The synagogue was built in 1682. Destroyed by a fire, it was restored in the nineteenth century. It served as a place for worship until 1936, then was used as a store for confiscated Jewish ...

Hartmanice

Czech Republic > Bohemia

Hartmanice is located South-West of Bohemia, in a mountainous region close to the Austrian border. Hartmanice Synagogue, also called “Mountain Synagogue” was built in 1881 that would become a new house of prayer for the growing Jewish community of Hartmanice (about 10% of the population). After the annexation of the region in 1938, the synagogue was confiscated by the Nazis. It ...

Site of Minsk Ghetto

Sobibór Camp

Stacja Kolejowa Sobibór 1, Włodawa +48 82 571 98 67

Maidanek Camp

Ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67, 20-325 Lublin +48 81 710 28 33

Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Str. der Nationen 22, 16515 Oranienburg +49 (0) 3301 2000 http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/

Trondheim

Trondheim’s synagogue is doubly unusual: it is the northernmost synagogue in Europe and the only one that has served as a train station, before the building became a synaogue in 1925!! Jews first settled in Trondheim in the 1880s. They quickly became very integrated, participation in all economical, social and cultural aspects of life. The Jewish community in Trondheim has never really ...

Malmö

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 monument honors their memory. A Jewish community (originally made up of German Jews) was established in this city on the Baltic coast facing Copenhagen in 1871, shortly after the emancipation. It now numbers ...