Victory Synagogue, during the Second World War
Sunday, 08 April 2018 at 4:30 p.m.
Around the Victory Synagogue. 150 years of French Judaism, under the direction of Jacques Canet, president of the Synagogue de la Victoire, and Claude Nataf, historian, ed. Porte-plume, 2017. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Great Synagogue of Paris, many specialists in the subject trace the history of this emblematic place and inseparable from that of French Judaism.
© ed. Penholder
During the Second World War, the synagogue embodied the suffering inflicted on the Jews of France, but also Jewish spiritual resistance. Although marked by the attacks of 1941 and 1942, it remained open throughout the war under the aegis of the chief rabbi of Paris, Julien Weill. After the war, it hosted commemorations of the deportation and the victims of war.
