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The tour begins at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch-sur-Alzette. The tour takes visitors on a journey of remembrance through the town, visiting various places that recall the tragic hours of the Second World War, the resistance of the population to forced Germanisation and the liberation of the town. Among the places visited are the museum, the Place de la Synagogue ...
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31 March 2024 at 10.30am at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Many Jews lived in this popular département throughout the 20th century, in the suburbs of Paris at the beginning of the century, but also later in Sarcelles and other places emblematic of Jewish settlement in North Africa. Through the study of the different destinies of Jewish volunteers, members of the Resistance, hidden children and ...
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10 April at the Dornbirn City Museum In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Hohenems, this German film by Christoph Hubner from 2017 deals with how grandparents’ past affects lives and how to overcome this. Seven people, grandchildren of Nazis or their victims, testify. With sincerity and without pathos, with the aim of helping new generations deal with this kind of situation. Nachlass | ...
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From 9 February to 26 May 2024 at the Galerie Eric F. Ross This exhibition highlights the work of German-Jewish author Curt Bloch, written between August 1943 and April 1945 while in hiding in the Netherlands. His poems, written in Dutch and German, were collected together in a booklet, dealing with the war and the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but also with the attitude of the ...
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From 1 December 2023 to 25 February 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de la Haute Garonne Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible period of the Occupation. The daily life of the Brussels teenager during the Second World War is examined in the work of Emile Bravo. His motivations and doubts in the face of the Nazi war machine, and ...
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Until 8 July 2024 This bold exhibition tackles the complex question of how to share the memory of the Second World War to children. The Museum invites parents and children to explore four stories imagined by four authors and illustrators of children’s books. The themes stories chosen to embody the different themes are On Resistance:”Le sac à dos” by Géraldine Alibeu; On ...
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Until 23 December 2023 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial This exhibition, produced by the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), provides a better understanding of the individual itineraries of the internees who were murdered or disappeared in the prison between 1943 and 1944. The exhibition uses the historic sites in Montluc where these people were ...
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At the CHRD in Lyon 80 years after the death of the Resistance leader, this exhibition at the CHRD provides an opportunity to learn more about the man through the eyes of those who knew or studied him. Testimonies from relatives, witnesses and supporters, as well as detractors. Photos and written documents take visitors through the stages of his life, from his childhood to his arrest. A film ...
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Until 23 December 2023 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members at Natzwiller-Struthof This exhibition, produced in partnership with the University of Strasbourg, highlights the well-known and lesser-known links between the medical faculty of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg and the Natzweiler concentration camp. In particular, the “experiments” carried out on ...
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28 November 2023 at the Caen Memorial During the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, the Nazis photographed the operation in order to provide their superiors with proof that it had been carried out. These photos were found by a survivor when the camps were liberated. A book has been published by Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hördler and Christoph Kreutzmüller, compiling these ...
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26 November 2023 at the Oslo Jewish Museum Every year on this date, the museum commemorates the deportation of Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. Inger-Lise Rothschild Grusd fled to Sweden six months after her parents, hiding first in Norway with anonymous people. As an adult, she set out to find out more, and in particular to find those who had saved her. She told her story in a ...
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16 January 2024 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights Claude Marx, who is in charge of the archives of the Consistoire israélite, worked on the Commission for the Spoliation of Jewish Property in Luxembourg. In this talk, he looks back on his life as a child hiding in a town in the Berry region in France during the war, and on his commitment to the memory of the Shoah. Claude ...
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23 January 2024 at the Museo Ebraico di Trieste The museum is organising the presentation of historian Giorgio Fabre’s book devoted to this sad era. The book was published by Il Mulino. The evening will provide an opportunity to discuss contemporary research into the anti-Semitism of that period, when Italy was ruled by Mussolini’s Fascist regime. The evening is organised by ...
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3 December 2023 at the Manchester Jewish Museum This documentary presents a figure as little known as he was influential: Fred Stein. The young man was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power. He discovered photography in Paris, a city that welcomed many refugee artists and inspired aspiring artists. His memorable photographs include portraits of Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein. ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Naples is known for Mount Vesuvius, the volcanic enthusiasm of its people, the pages of Elena Ferrante and more recently the films of the great director Paolo Sorrentino. The Neapolitan Jewish presence dates back to at least the first century, as mentioned in the texts of Flavius Joseph. As archaeological finds from 1908 attest, Jewish life in the 4th century was significant. Graves from this ...
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A famous inspiration for Stendhal, Parma is a city with a wealth of cultural institutions: museums, theatres and concert halls. It was also the regional birthplace of Verdi, who is celebrated here every year at a festival. And, of course, Parma is also famous for all the culinary specialities that go with its name. History of Parma’s Jews The Jewish presence in Parma probably dates back ...
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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), ...
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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 ...
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Of interest in Klooga is the Shoah Victims’ memorial. A concentration camp occupied the site and another was in Vaivara. Between August and September 1943, the 9,000 people still present in the Vilnius ghetto were sent to the concentration camps in Estonia. The three main camps were those of Valveira, Klooga and Lagedi. Each of these camps kept nearly 3,000 people. About 20 other ...
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Those with a healthy curiosity should make a quick detour to the small town of Cáslav, located forty-four miles southeast of the capital. Forbidden to Jews until the middle of the nineteenth century, the communities in the neighboring villages began to settle here after the Jews’ emancipation. To the northeast of the large square on Fucikova Street one can see an unusual synagogue in a ...
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In the seventeenth century, the Jews of Galicia and Silesia (modern-day Poland and Ukraine) were drawn to this region by trade in tokaj, a syrupy, amber-tinted wine very popular at the courts of Louis XIV and Peter of Russia. Jews gradually settled here, producing wine for Jews and non-Jews alike, and a crowd of other small trades followed subsequently. In this very Orthodox region, Hasidism ...
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Unjustly slighted as a tourist destination, Piedmont is one of the richest regions of Jewish heritage in Italy, with magnificent small Baroque synagogues like those of Carmagnola, Casale Monferrato, Cherasco, Mondovi, and Saluzzo. In 1848, the Piedmontese Jews became the first in Italy to definitively obtain full equality. The main restrictions on their residence or authorized economic ...
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