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 ...
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Centre 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'infosOn line Exhibition of the Centre Pompidou: Christian Boltanski and the transmission of memory
Online until April 15, 2021 Christian Boltanski’s artistic work is strongly associated with memory, and more precisely with that of the Shoah. The event, entitled “Faire son temps”, looks back in fifty works on the career of the artist, son of a Jewish doctor of Russian origin. This broad tour of the work of one of the greatest figures of creation in our time allows us to ...
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'infosHomecoming 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 ...
Plus d'infosYour 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 ...
Plus d'infosPierre 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 ...
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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48 rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux Tél : 05 56 10 19 90
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63 rue Monceau, 75008 Paris Tél : 01 53 89 06 50
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Strada Gheorghe Doja 75, Sighet
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Grosse Mantelgasse 69115 Heidelberg
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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.
Plus d'infosSabbioneta
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 ...
Plus d'infosNaples
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 ...
Plus d'infosLecce
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), ...
Plus d'infosBari
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 ...
Plus d'infosRakovnik
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 ...
Plus d'infosBreclav
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 ...
Plus d'infosPolná
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 ...
Plus d'infosHartmanice
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 ...
Plus d'infosSite of Minsk Ghetto
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