expositions itinerantes
Between Shade and Darkness
The fate of the jews of Luxembourg between 1940 and 1945
The exhibition "Between Shade and Darkness" tells the story of the Jewish population of Luxembourg in the years before, during and after the Second World War.
The exhibition "Between Shade and Darkness" tells the story of the fate of the Jewish population of Luxembourg in the years before, during and after the Second World War. It addresses both the specifications of the small country, the influence of Jewish culture on Luxembourg, which in the 1930s became the elected exile of numerous Central European Jews, as well as the failed integration and isolation policies of the Grand Duchy. With the annexation of the country to the German Reich on 10 May 1940, National Socialist Jewish policy began: first exclusion and discrimination, then deportations to the ghettos and extermination camps. Escape networks, in turn, helped many Jews to flee abroad.
It was not until the 2010s that the fate of Luxembourg's Jews was effectively evaluated. The recognition of all the sufferings endured cumulated in the official apologies of the government and parliament in 2015.
The exhibition is bilingual, in English and German.
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