The Jewish presence in Palermo dates back to Roman times. Documents found in the Genizah of Cairo attest to their presence in the Middle Ages. Some of them arrived as slaves during the period of Muslim domination. They were freed financially by their co-religionists. Nevertheless, the Jews managed to emancipate themselves and participate in the active life of the city during this domination, ...
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Agrigento
A tomb found in the city of Agrigento attests to the Jewish presence since antiquity. Letters found in the Genizah of Cairo mention this presence in the 11th century. In the Middle Ages, Jews were subjected to church taxes and restricted in their practice. Fundraising was forced, especially to equip the King’s troops. Among the most prominent figures of the time was Faraj da Agrigento, ...
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The Jewish presence in the town of Ravenna seems to date back to the 3rd century. Settling mainly at the end of the Middle Ages, the Jews practised the trades of wine merchants and goldsmiths. Following the takeover of the region by the papal authority, brutal measures were taken, a synagogue was burnt and Jews were attacked. Those who remained, were expelled and returned during the 16th ...
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An internment camp was opened during the Second World War near the village of Fossoli. Established by the Italian army in 1942, it served as a prison for Allied soldiers, mainly British. Following the German occupation of the country and with the participation of local soldiers, the prisoners were deported to concentration camps. Within a few weeks, almost 1000 Jews were imprisoned there. In ...
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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 ...
Plus d'infosHomosexuals and lesbians in Nazi Europe
Exhibition at the Shoah Memorial Long taboo, the fate of the pink triangles, although it has been the subject of major historical research over the last thirty years, is still little known. Indeed, it was only with the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1970s that the subject began to be debated, raising numerous questions which constitute as many memorial issues: what was the nature ...
Plus d'infosRepressions and deportations in France and Europe 1939-1945
In Nazi-occupied Europe, resistance and repression are presented through the lives of men and women who were members of the Resistance and deported from Loire-Inférieure, tried or not, and transported on convoys to the East. Railway workers and miners from the North are shown alongside deportees as well as repressed foreigners and maquisards from the west of France. This exhibition deals with ...
Plus d'infosDebate at the CCLJ with Marie-Anne Weisers on her book “Belgian justice, German executioners and the Shoah”
Tracing the history of international law back to the First World War, the author examines the evolution of decisions taken in the field of repression of war crimes, first by the Allies, then by the Belgian government and parliament after the Second World War. The post-war Belgian trials of German war criminals were seen as a failure. The outcome of these trials did not meet the ambitions ...
Plus d'infosGuided 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'infosPhotographer in exile: Fred Stein. Dresden, Paris, New York
Fred Stein (1909-1967) was born in Dresden as the son of a rabbi. He studied law but fled to Paris with his wife Lilo Salzburg when Hitler came to power in 1933, on the pretext of a honeymoon. There they, with thousands of others, found a safe haven, but as a German refugee Stein could no longer work as a lawyer. That is why he looked for work as a journalistic photographer. ...
Plus d'infosGorizia
The city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I, but heavily permeated by neighboring Italian culture. While the Jewish presence probably dates from the 13th century, recognition of it was not materialized by local authorities until the 16th century. In 1696, a ghetto was erected in the city. During the following century, the Jews were authorized to practice ...
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The Jewish presence in the city of Tours dates from at least the 6th century. In the Middle Ages there was a rue de la Juiverie, as well as a Jewish cemetery. However, as in all cities of France, this ancient presence came to an abrupt end with the expulsions of the late Middle Ages. Unlike many cities, the emancipation of Jews from France following the Revolution was slow to materialize in ...
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
Plus d'infosLorraine American cemetery
Avenue de Fayetteville, 57500 Saint-Avold Tel : 03 87 92 07 32 https://www.abmc.gov/Lorraine#.WjEJFUojSUn
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The Jewish presence in Forbach seems to date from the 17th century. Very few people were affected until the middle of the 18th century. An oratory was installed in 1733 and a small Jewish quarter began to form on rue Fabert. If on the eve of the French Revolution a complaint was lodged about the quota of Jews exceeding the authorized number, the wind of emancipation had rapid effects in the ...
Plus d'infos“Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9” Temporary exhibition for the 80th anniversary of the closure of the Warsaw Ghetto
Until April 25, 2021 On November 16, 1940, the Warsaw ghetto was closed. 80 years ago, the city was divided into two parts by a wall. Jews trapped in the ghetto were separated from information, their relatives, verdure, trees or the view of the sky to the horizon. The exhibition „Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9” symbolically refers to this moment. The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, ...
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
Plus d'infosJean Moulin Center of Bordeaux
48 rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux Tél : 05 56 10 19 90
Plus d'infosNissim de Camondo Museum
63 rue Monceau, 75008 Paris Tél : 01 53 89 06 50
Plus d'infosMemorial Monument of Sighet
Strada Gheorghe Doja 75, Sighet
Plus d'infosJewish Memorial of Heidelberg
Grosse Mantelgasse 69115 Heidelberg
Plus d'infosUtrecht
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 ...
Plus d'infosRotterdam
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. ...
Plus d'infosVeghel
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 ...
Plus d'infosVinnytsa
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 ...
Plus d'infosCompiègne
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.
Plus d'infosErstein
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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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