Memorial Scrolls Trust

Name	Category	Sub Category	City	Notes
TEST	Museum		ZZZ
Memorial Scrolls Trust	Museum	Holocaust	London	The home of the Czech Torah Scrolls which surived the Holocaust and came to London in 1962.
The Jewish Museum London	Museum	Jewish History	London	A museum that tells the story of the history and heritage of Jews in Britain through universal themes of migration, family, faith
Imperial War Museum	Museum	Holocaust	London	IWM is a family of five museums and historic sites covering war and conflict from the First World War to the present day. The Holocaust Exhibition tells the story of the Nazi persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during the Second World War.?The origins and implementation of the ?Final Solution? are laid bare, with photographs, documents, artefacts, posters and film offering stark evidence of how persecution turned to mass extermination.
The National Holocaust Centre & Museum	Museum	Holocaust	Newark	Through galleries, memorial gardens and talks to survivors, the Centre promotes an understanding of the roots of discrimination and prejudice
Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide studies	University	Holocaust	Leicester
The Holocaust Research Centre, Royal Holloway	University	Holocaust	Egham
British Library	Library	Jewish Literature	London	The National Library of the UK
British Museum	Museum	Jewish History	London	The oldest and largest museum in London
Ben Uri Gallery: The London Jewish Museum of Art	Museum	Jewish Art	London	We hold Europe?s only collection principally dedicated to emigre artists whether refugees or immigrants by choice or as more often as a result of terror. This unique collection comprises of over 1300 works by over 400 artists from 40 countries of birth.
Freud Museum London	Museum	Jewish History	London	This was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst.
Manchester Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Manchester	The Museum?s collection is made up of objects, documents, photographs and oral histories charting the many stories and experiences of Manchester Jewish life
Oxford centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies	University	Jewish Culture	Oxford	The Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies of the University of Oxford, fully funded by the Oxford Centre, is the leading research centre for academic Jewish studies in Europe. Today, Hebrew and Jewish studies at Oxford are more wide-ranging, more influential and more exciting than at any time in the history of the University.
Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations	University	Jewish relations	Southampton	The Parkes Institute is one of the world?s leading centres for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. Our scholarly expertise ranges from antiquity through to the present day, and our archive is one of the largest Jewish documentation centres in Europe.
Scottish Jewish Archive Centre	Archive	Jewish History	Glasgow	The Scottish Jewish Archive Centre is dedicated to preserving Scotland's Jewish heritage by collecting historic material relating to the experiences of Jewish people in Scotland over the past 200 years.
Jüdisches Museum Berlin	Museum	Jewish History	Berlin	We are a place of active reflection on Jewish history and culture?on the diversity of Jewish perspectives as well as the history of the relationship between Jews and their non-Jewish environments.
Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia	Museum	Jewish History	Augsburg	The Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia documents the rich culture and checkered history of the Jews in Augsburg and Swabia from the Middle Ages to the present.
New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation	Museum	Jewish History	Berlin	The New Synagogue Berlin ? Centrum Judaicum Foundation was founded in July 1988. Its mission was to ?rebuild the New Synagogue in the Oranienburger Stra?e in Berlin for present and future generations and create a center for preserving and fostering Jewish culture.?
Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe	Memorial / Information Centre	Holocaust	Berlin	The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of Berlin is the German Holocaust Memorial honouring and remembering the up to six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Located between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz, the Memorial consists of the Field of Stelae designed by Peter Eisenman and the subterranean Information Centre
Jewish Museum Creglingen	Museum	Jewish History	Creglingen	The exhibition shows the regional roots and particularities of Jewish life in Creglingen and in its partial community Archshofen. Ways and destinies, which led the Jews from their native country abroad, will be outlined and the common past of Jews and ?non-Jews? shall be brought back in memory.
The Blue House in Breisach	Museum	Jewish History	Breisach am Rhein	The Blue House in Breisach is a memorial site and educational establishment dedicated to the history of the Jews of the Upper Rhine. Events and educational programs at this historic location help recall the historical Jewish communities, the co-existence of Christians and Jews as well as the violent end of Jewish life under the Nazi dictatorship in 1940, with references to?the present day.
Jewish Museum of Westphalia	Museum	Jewish History	Dorsten	Visitors can learn about Jewish history in Westphalia and the Jewish religion and they have the opportunity to experience Jewish history and culture in a regional context as well as to reflect on Jewish life in Germany in the past and present.
Jewish Museum Emmendingen	Museum	Jewish History & Culture	Emmendingen	The Jewish Museum Emmendingen contains exhibitions about the Jewish community of Emmendingen 1716-1940 and Jewish culture in general.
Old Synagogue Essen	Museum	Jewish History & Culture	Essen	Located in the former synagogue of Essen, there are now exhibitions about jewish culture and the history of Essen's Jewish community.
Jewish Museum Frankfurt	Museum	Jewish History	Frankfurt am Main	Our two permanent exhibitions enable you to experience more than 800 years of Jewish life in Frankfurt.
Museum Judengasse	Museum	Jewish History	Frankfurt am Main	The Judengasse in Frankfurt used to be one of the most important centres of Jewish life in Europe. The permanent exhibition presents that history with a special focus on everyday Jewish life in the early modern era
Jewish Museum Franken	Museum	Jewish History	F?rth	The Jewish Museum Franken has a sizeable collection of Judaica which convey the history of Jews in Franken throughout time.
Jewish Museum Göppingen	Museum	Jewish History	G?ppingen - Jebenhausen	The Museum shows the history of the Jewish community in G?ppingen - Jebenhausen since 1777.
Behrend Lehmann Museum for Jewish history and culture	Museum	Jewish History	Halberstadt	The Behrend Lehmann Museum for Jewish history and culture is named after the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (1661-1730), one of the most eminent Court Jews of the period, who improved the condition of Jews in Haberstadt.
Museum for Hamburg History - Permanent exhibition about Jews in Hamburg	Museum	Jewish History	Hamburg	The exhibition Jews in Hamburg presents the history of Jewish people in Hamburg during the past 400 years: the difficult period around 1600, the arduous process of emancipation until legal equality was achieved in the late 19th century, the golden age during the Weimar Republic, the era of fascist persecution and genocide and the reestablishment of the Jewish community after 1945.
The former Synagogue Kippenheim	Memorial	Jewish History	Kippenheim	The Kippenheim Synagogue bears witness to religious Jewish life in a Christian environment, contemporary history of the desecration by national socialist violence, and finally its condition today, the handling of the national socialist history and the Jewish heritage.
Museum of Christian and Jewish History	Museum	Jewish History	Laupheim	The Museum of Christian and Jewish History in Laupheim presents the relations of a Christian majority and a Jewish minority in Laupheim.
Jewish Museum Munich	Museum	Jewish History	M?nchen	The Jewish Museum Munich is a vibrant place showcasing the diversity of Jewish history and culture as well as the wide variety of Jewish lifeworlds and identities, while also focusing on the subjects of migration and inclusion.
Memorial Salmen Offenburg	Memorial	Jewish History	Offenburg	Two historical presentations in the gallery of the Salmen hall are a reminder of the proclamation of the draft of the first German constitution which embodies the dawn of a new era of free state under the rule of law and the devastation of the Offenburg Synagogue which stood for the end of freedom and tolerance.
Jewish Museum Rendsburg	Museum	Jewish History & Culture	Rendsburg	The Jewish Museum in Rendsburg was one of the first Jewish museums to be founded in Germany after World War 2. It provides an insight into the history of the Jews in Schleswig-Holstein, the Jewish religion and identity. Moreover, it exhibits the works of selected Jewish artists. The museum is housed in the oldest maintained synagogue in Schleswig-Holstein and is therefore not only an exhibition house, but also a historic architectural monument and memorial place.
SchPIRA Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Speyer	In order to furnish the SchPIRA Museum, the Historical Museum of the Palatinate and the State Office for Historic Preservation made a permanent loan of their collections of Judaica to the museum. Archaeological exhibits of the three important pillars of the Jewish community are shown there: synagogue, ritual bath and cemetery.
The Synagogue in Sulzburg	Memorial	Jewish History	Sulzburg	In the mid-70ies the fromer Synagogue of Sulzburg became municipal property and was restored as cultural monument and memorial site.
Jewish Museum in Raschi-Haus	Museum	Jewish History	Worms	In the Middle Ages, the Jewish community in Worms enjoyed a high reputation throughout western Europe as ?Little Jerusalem on the Rhine?. Still today, there are unique records and reminders of Jewish life to be seen and visited in Worms, among them the Jewish Museum in the Rashi House. Come inside and learn all about the long history of this building and about the wide range of exhibits on religious and everyday life in the Jewish community from the Middle Ages up into the 20th century.
Old Synagogue Erfurt	Museum	Jewish History	Erfurt	The Old Synagogue in Erfurt showcases the history of the Jewish community there in Middle Age, including the old cemetery, the architecture and old Jewish treasures.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site	Memorial	Holocaust	Dachau	The Memorial Site on the grounds of the former concentration camp was established in 1965 on the initiative of and in accordance with the plans of the surviving prisoners who had joined together to form the Comit? International de Dachau. The Bavarian state government provided financial support. Between 1996 and 2003 a new exhibition on the history of the Dachau concentration camp was created, following the leitmotif of the "Path of the Prisoners".
KZ-Gedenkst?tte Neuengamme	Memorial	Holocaust	Hamburg	The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial is located on the historic site of the former Neuengamme concentration camp in the Bergedorf borough of Hamburg, where several exhibitions present the history and the crimes of the concentration camp.
Gedenkst?tte und Museum Sachsenhausen	Memorial	Holocaust	Oranienburg	The Sachsenhausen Memorial is designed according to a decentral concept that is intended to allow visitors to experience history at the actual sites it occurred. Its thirteen exhibitions connect the displays showing the history of each specific location with a thread connecting them into an overall narrative
MiQua. LVR-Jewish Museum in the Archaeological Quarter	Museum	Jewish History	Cologne	Here nearly 2000 years of history and urban development come alive, manifested in an archaeological site covering more than 6000 m? with features and finds from the Roman period up to the 20th century. The exhibition will tell the diverse story of the place and the people who lived here, the story of leadership and everyday life, coexistence, religion and violence, inclusion and exclusion
Spiegelgasse Active Museum of German-Jewish History	Museum	Jewish History	Wiesbaden	The Active Museum shows the significant historical role that Jews played in the spiritual, cultural and economic development of Wiesbaden. It also displays aspects of Jewish culture, intending them to play a greater role in the general culture of the city.
Jewish Museum Hohenems	Museum	Jewish History	Hohenems	The Jewish Museum of Hohenems remembers the Jewish community of Hohenems and its various contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the surrounding regions of the Alps. It tells a story about the Diaspora and it confronts contemporary questions of Jewish life and culture in Europe, questions of living together and of migration.
Jewish Museum of Switzerland	Museum	Jewish History	Basel	It tells the cultural history of the Jews in the area of today?s Switzerland and of Judaism as a religion via topics of universal concern: migration, family, community and faith. It opened in 1966 as the first Jewish Museum in German-speaking Europe after World War II.
The Jewish Alsatian Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Bouxwiller	The museum highlights the culture of Jews in Alsace and recounts their history, telling of everyday life through the ages with their Christian neighbours.
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ)	Museum	Jewish Art & History	Paris	The Museum of Jewish Art and History is situated in the historic Marais district in one of the finest private mansions in Paris. It retraces the development of Jewish communities through their cultural heritage and traditions. It places special emphasis on the history of the Jews in France, but also looks at the communities in Europe and North Africa, which helped to make French Judaism what it is today
Jewish Museum of Belgium	Museum	Jewish Art & History	Brussels	The Jewish Museum of Belgium is located in the Brussels historical section of the Sablon and of the Mont des Arts. It?s a place where tradition and open mindedness merge with the ambition of being accessible to everyone. Its purpose is to promote knowledge and understanding of worldwide Jewish culture and history while emphasizing their spiritual and material wealth.
Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam	Museum	Jewish History	Amsterdam	The Jewish Historical Museum is a beautiful, high-profile museum that occupies four monumental synagogue buildings in the middle of the Jewish Cultural Quarter. It provides a unique picture of past and present Dutch Jewish life in all its facets. The museum has an extensive collection of items ranging from paintings to films, and from utensils to 3D presentations. At any one time there are also two temporary exhibitions on display.
Museum Sjoel Elburg	Museum	Jewish History	Elburg	Sjoel Elburg is a story museum about the history of Jews in the media (the province). Stories about the (ordinary) daily life of twelve Jewish families who lived in Elburg since 1700. Sjoel Elburg offers a historical perspective for a current theme: integration and tolerance. How were minority groups viewed in the past? How did Jewish and non-Jewish Elburgers live next to each other? Sjoel Elburg presents the Jewish history in a dynamic, unorthodox, engaging and selfish way, allowing for its own musical sound.
The Danish Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Copenhagen	?The?exhibition of the Danish Jewish Museum is a broad presentation of Jewish life in Denmark through 400 years, and is a selection from the museum?s own collection.
Jewish Museum Vienna	Museum	Jewish History	Vienna	This permanent exhibition is entitled ?Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then to Now.? and opened on November 18, 2013, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Museum and the 20th anniversary of its move to Palais Eskeles.
Jüdisches Museum am Judenplatz	Museum	Jewish History	Vienna	In December 2010, ten years after the opening of Museum Judenplatz, the Jewish Museum Vienna devised a new permanent exhibition on medieval history and adapted the ground-floor rooms for temporary exhibitions.
Bratislava Jewish Community Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Bratislava	The Jewish Community Museum focuses on the history and culture of the Jewish community of Bratislava and its surrounding region. The museum?s permanent exhibition, The Jews of Bratislava and Their Heritage, is installed on the upper floor of the synagogue, which is still used as an active house of Jewish worship.
Jewish Museum Meran and Synagogue	Museum	Jewish History	Merano	The Jewish Museum Meran narrates the development of the Jewish community in Meran.
Jewish Museum of Casale Monferrato	Museum	Jewish History	Casale Monferrato	A Jewish Art and History Museum, a Synagogue and a Museum of Lights
Jewish Museum Venice	Museum	Jewish History	Venice	The Jewish Museum of Venice is situated in the Campo of the Ghetto Novo, between the two most ancient Venetian synagogues. It is a little but very rich museum founded in 1953 by the Jewish Community of Venice.
Diocesan Museum of Trani	Museum	Jewish Art	Trani	The new section of Trani?s Diocesan Museum is dedicated to Jewish Art. It is situated in a unique site which was both a synagogue and a church. Its architectural and religious history spans from the middle ages to the nineteenth century. The museum includes various archeological findings of the Jewish history of the town and a variety of archival documents (Medieval privileges, Royal and Episcopal licenses).
The Jewish Medieval Museum of Fondi	Museum	Jewish History	Fondi	The museum's objective is, according to it's website, to bring back to memory and highlight the long presence of the Jewish community in the city, which probably settled in the area in late antiquity and lasted until the middle of 1500s.
Jewish Museum Lecce	Museum	Jewish History	Lecce	"Museo ebraico - Jewish Museum Lecce" ?is in the heart of the old Jewish neighbourhood. It is a cultural center that holds the permanent exhibition "Below the Baroque: discovering medieval Jewish Lecce". The project started from a private initiative with the aim of bringing to light the history of Medieval Lecce, focusing on the local Jewish community.
Sinagoga e Museo Ebraico di Firenze	Museum	Jewish History	Florence	Set up on two floors inside the building, it hosts a rich collection of ceremonial Jewish art objects. Silver pieces and fabrics originating from the old synagogues of the Florentine Jewish ghetto and photographic and archival documentation of the history of the Jewish community in Florence.
Museo Ebraico di Bologna	Museum	Jewish History	Bologna	The permanent section is focused on the issue of Jewish identity and describes the highlights of Jewish history over nearly 4000 years, during which each generation has maintained strong ties with the previous one, thereby ensuring continuity between ancient, medieval, modern? history and contemporary Judaism.
Museo ebraico di Roma	Museum	Jewish History	Rome	Our Museum is the museum of the Jewish Community of Rome, a unique community been in this city for over twenty-two centuries: this is the topic we decided to work on. But our museum does not belong in a conceptual sense, only to the Jews.It contains a part of the history of Rome. So it is also a civic museum and as such is expected to highlight the relationship between Jews and Romans, seen as a physical place and as a laboratory for coexistence, and as the capital of a nation, Italy, which had for over two thousand years a very special relationship with Judaism.
MEIS Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah	Museum	Jewish History	Ferrara	The Museo Nazionale dell?Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah - MEIS (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) was founded to ?bear witness to the events that have characterized the two thousand years of Jewish presence in Italy?. This decision recognizes, and enhances, the exceptional continuity of the rich, uninterrupted ? but not widely known ? path travelled by the Jews, their traditions making a fundamental contribution to the history and fabric of the nation; a cultural contribution wrought between periods of calmer coexistence and fruitful interaction and other tragic times of persecution and banishment, culminating in the tragedy of the Shoah.
Museo della Comunità ebraica “Carlo e Vera Wagner”	Museum	Jewish History	Trieste	Opened in 1993, the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum was created to protect this Jewish past and provide a permanent home for the Judaica collection that the Jewish Community of Trieste has owned for centuries. The museum contains extremely important historical documents and has a section dedicated to the memory of Trieste residents deported during the Holocaust.
Museum of Jewish History, Foundation Call de Girona	Museum	Jewish History	Girona	The main aim of the Museum is to preserve and reflect the history of the Jewish communities of Catalonia, which throughout the entire medieval period formed part of, and made a decisive contribution to, the history of the country and its cultural and scientific development. In most cases an attempt has been made to illustrate the explanations given during the visit to the Museum with examples of items originating from Girona's own Jewish history. These examples, which may be in documentary, archaeological or pictorial form, thus offer a general explanation of the pattern of Jewish life in medieval Catalonia.
Sephardic Museum of Toledo	Museum	Jewish History	Toledo	The Sephardic Museum was created under the 1964 Decree, which placed it in the most important Hispanic-Jewish building in Spain: the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi, or the Synagogue of Transit, located in the ancient Jewish quarter in Toledo
Museo Sefardi de Granada	Museum	Jewish History	Granada	The Museum recreates the culture and history of the Jewish community in Granada until their expulsion in 1492.
Sinagoga Tomar	Museum	Jewish History	Tomar	t was built in the 15th century and closed in 1496, when the Portuguese Jews were expelled from the country. It was later turned into a prison and in the 17th there is a reference to it as the S. Bartolomeu Chapel. In the 19th century it was used a barn, a granary, a goods warehouse and a storage room. Only in 1921 was it possible to restore its lost dignity when it was classified as a National Monument.
The Jewish Museum of Ferrara	Museum	Jewish History	Ferrara	The Jewish Museum of Ferrara is housed in the heart of the city's medieval centre only a short distance from the Cathedral and next to the Castello Estense. In the ancient palace in Via Mazzini ( formerly Via Sabbioni ) and which for centuries has been the focal point of Jewish life in the city of Ferrara, visitors to the Museum have access to three synagogues - two of which are still operative - on the upper floors of the building where four rooms have recently been created and which now house the permanent museum.
Jewish Museum of Belmonte	Museum	Jewish History	Belmonte	It is Portugal?s first Jewish Museum that portrays the History of Jewish people in this country, as well as its integration in the Portuguese society and the decisive role it played in Portuguese culture, art, literature and trade.
Slovak National Museum - Museum of Jewish Culture	Museum	Jewish Culture & History	Bratislava	An exhibition permanently housed in the Zsigray Mansion in Bratislava aims at the presentation of Jewish material and spiritual culture and the documentation of Holocaust in Slovakia. The collections and exhibitions present to the public objects of everyday life, documents and objects of visual art. The museum also administers four exhibitions displayed in the synagogue in Pre?ov.
Museum "Jews in Latvia"	Museum	Jewish History	Riga	The mission of the museum "Jews in Latvia" is to preserve the rich cultural heritage and historical evidence of Latvian Jewish community from its origins in the 16th century to the present day, and thus to contribute to the growth of tolerance and the concept of diversity among the local population of Latvia and foreign tourists.
Lost Shtetl Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Vilnius	The museum, slated to open in 2022, will be part of the Lost Shtetl memorial complex in and around the small town of ?eduva, Lithuania. It will be located across the road from the town?s restored Jewish cemetery, which is part of the complex. The Lost Shtetl museum will tell the story of the life of what was once the largest European Litvak Jewish population living in shtetls. Lifestyle, customs, religion and the social, professional and family life of the Jews of ?eduva will serve as the centerpiece of the museum exhibition. Museum visitors will be taught the tragedy of ?eduva?s Jewish history, which ended in three pits near the shtetl in the early days of World War II, concluding five centuries of the history of the Jews of ?eduva.
Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History & Holocaust	Vilnius	Together we discover authentic Lithuanian Jewish world, preserve heritage, learn from history and create common future.
POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews	Museum	Jewish History	Warsaw	The Core Exhibition is a journey through 1000 years of the history of Polish Jews ? from the Middle Ages until today. Visitors will find answers to questions such as: how did Jews come to Poland? How did Poland become the center of the Jewish Diaspora and the home of the largest Jewish community in the world? How did it cease to be one, and how is Jewish life being revived?
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute	Museum	Jewish Art	Warsaw	The collection includes about 8.000 paintings and graphics, sculpture and metalwork, judaica and historical memorabilia.
Museum of Mazovian Jews	Museum	Jewish History	Plock	An educational and cultural institution, the Museum of Mazovian Jews is dedicated to the history of Jewish settlement in Poland.
Auschwitz Jewish Center	Museum	Holocaust	O?wi?cim	In the exhibition, photographs of individuals and families, documents and artifacts from local Jewish organizations and businesses, and the Judaica excavated in 2004 from beneath the site of the O?wi?cim Great Synagogue bring to life the vital Jewish town that O?wi?cim once was.
Galicia Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Krakow	The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective. An innovative and unique institution located in Kazimierz, the Jewish district of Krak?w, Poland, the Museum is a registered charity in Poland. The objectives of the Museum are to challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions typically associated with the Jewish past in Poland and to educate both Poles and Jews about their own histories, whilst encouraging them to think about the future.
Jewish Museum in Prague	Museum	Jewish History	Prague	Established in 1906, the Jewish Museum in Prague is one of the oldest Jewish museums in Europe, showcasing the history of Jewish communities in the Czech Republic.
Jewish Museum in Stockholm	Museum	Jewish History	Stockholm	The Jewish Museum tells the story of Jewish thought, Jewish practices, and Swedish history to everyone who is curious about Jewish history and Swedish-Jewish heritage.
Oslo Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Oslo	Oslo Jewish Museum?s (JMO) aim is to collect, keep, research and communicate reliable knowledge on Jewish immigration, life and integration into Norwegian society. The museum?s collections are the foundation on which everything else rests. JMO aims to be an open and vibrant museum and cultural centre, visible in Norwegian cultural life and politics through publications, lectures, concerts, various exhibitions and further outreach activities. Topics to be covered are Jewish culture, tradition, history and Judaism.
Jewish Museum in Trondheim	Museum	Jewish History	Trondheim	In the Jewish Museum Trondheim one can explore Jewish history,?culture, identity and religious practice in the central and northern part of Norway. The museum has two permanent exhibitions; one is devoted to Jewish life in the Trondheim area, and the second describes the history of Trondheim?s Jewish community with emphasis on the Shoah and presents how the war affected Jews in this?area of Norway.
Estonian Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Tallinn	The museum tells the life of Estonian Jews from the 19th century to present day, and their contribution to Estonian life.
Jewish Museum of Greece	Museum	Jewish History	Athens	?he collections of the Jewish Museum of Greece include more than 10,000 original artefacts, which document the material evidences of 2.300 years of Jewish history and culture in Greece.
Museum of the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Museum	Jewish History	Sarajevo	The Jewish Museum or Museum of the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina is housed in the oldest synagogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, built in 1581. Many experts are of the opinion that this was the finest exhibition space in the whole of ex-Yugoslavia; and indeed, on entering the Synagogue, one steps into a different, sheltered world, which attests to the centuries-old presence of the Jews in this country and to the contribution they made to its development in many fields, particularly science and the arts. Particular attention is devoted to the suffering of the Jews during World War II. This dependency of the Sarajevo Museum is located in Velika avilja.
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Museum	Jewish History	Sarajevo	The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina display several exhibitions about natural sciences as well as archeology and ethnology, amongst which we can also find several exhibits about Jewish culture such as the Sarajevo Haggadah, a collection of religious rules and traditions arranged into the order of the Seder observed on Passover, the holiday celebrating the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt.
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives	Museum	Jewish History	Budapest	The Hungarian Jewish Museum opened in January 1916, in a private apartment in Hold utca. The collection, which had been started on the initiative of Jewish intellectuals, already consisted of nearly 1500 objects, first and foremost Jewish ceremonial objects and relics of the history of Hungarian Jewry.?
Shoah & Jewish History Museum Szombathely	Museum	Jewish History & Holocaust	Szombathely	The museum, opened during the annual ceremonies marking the city?s Holocaust memorial day July 7, features exhibits on the Shoah as well as other material aimed at ?all those who are interested in the history and rich tradition of the Jews of Szombathely.? It features ritual objects and historical information. Among the exhibits is an installation recreating a typical Jewish family?s living from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, arrayed as if on the eve of Shabbat.
Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor	Synagogue	Jewish History	Maribor	The Maribor synagogue is one of the more important monuments of Jewish cultural heritage within the Slovenian territory, and also one of the older preserved synagogues within the Central European area
Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewish Community	Museum	Jewish History	Bucharest	The museum gives broad coverage of the history of the Jews in Romania. Displays include an enormous collection of books written, published, illustrated, or translated by Romanian Jews; a serious archive of the history of Romanian Jewry; a collection of paintings of and by Romanian Jews that, while relatively small, consists of works of a calibre worthy of a major art museum (many of the same artists' works hang in the National Museum of Art); memorabilia from Jewish theaters including the State Jewish Theater; a medium-sized display devoted to Zionism; a small but pointed display of anti-Semitic posters and tracts; two rooms off to a side, one dealing with the Holocaust era from a historical point of view, the other a Holocaust memorial; discussion of both favorable and unfavorable treatment of the Jews by various of Romania's historic rulers; in short, a museum devoted to looking seriously at the history of a particular ethnic group within a society.
Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade	Museum	Jewish History	Belgrade	The permanent exhibition was opened in 1969. Thanks to the complex and highly subtle design, the age of the exhibition does not belittle its attractiveness and the high quality of information that it provides about Jewish history and way of life. Geographically, the exhibition covers the region of the whole former Yugoslavia, while in terms of time it covers the history of Jews since their first arrival to this region, in the II ? III century, until the World War Two and the Holocaust, and includes the period of rehabilitation of the Jewish community. This lengthy period of time is presented in summary on 200 m2, and it enables the visitor to learn about Jewish habits, architecture, culture and art.
Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki	Museum	Jewish History	Thessaloniki	The task of the museum is to collect documents and heirlooms which have not been destroyed during the Holocaust, to preserve the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust and to encourage the research about the continuous presence of the Jews in Thessaloniki for more than 2000 years..
Jewish Museum of Rhodes	Museum	Jewish History	Rhodes	The Jewish Museum is found in the Old Jewish quarter of Rhodes Town. The museum, founded by Aaron Hasson in 1977 is housed in two rooms at the historic Kahal Shalom Synagogue of Rhodes, built in 1577. The museum reopened in 2006 after undergoing several renovations. The original objective of the Jewish Museum of Rhodes is to present historic facts from the life of Jewish people on the island. The exhibits displayed in the museum include many ketubbah, that is a marriage contract, from 1852 and 1891 as well as a Jewish theological book written in the Ladini dialect (Judeo-Spanish). There is also a Turkish travel document issued in 1910 by the authority of Sultan Mehmet Reshat allowing 20-year old Isaac Nessim Ben Veniste to leave with his family to another country. On the walls, you will see many photos of the Rhodes-Jewish community from different periods.
The Quincentennial Foundation Museum Of Turkish Jews	Museum	Jewish History	Istanbul	The museum consists of the presentation of the 2600 years of historical and cultural heritage of Turkish Jews in this land, their contributions ?to the social and state life of the country they live in; of sections presenting the history,the ?ethnography,The ?Midrash, where religious objects are exhibited, the traditions, the life cycle and the settlements.
Jewish Museum Dubrovnik	Museum	Jewish History	Dubrovnik	The Synagogue (1352, the second oldest in Europe after Prague) and Jewish museum are set in a building which could be reached from within the surrounding houses in what was once the Jewish ghetto. A permanent Jewish community here was founded at the end of the 15th century following the exodus from Portugal and Spain. The community flourished and included respected doctors, merchants and state representatives. Jews in Dubrovnik enjoyed relative freedom, but there were some restrictions on their activities at certain points in history. The Synagogue is tiny and delightful, with heavy velvet drapes and a richly painted, midnight blue ceiling. The museum contains valuable menorahs and Torah scrolls, alongside information on the history of the Jewish community in Dubrovnik.
Old Synagogue Sopron	Synagogue	Jewish History & Culture	Sopron	The medieval synagogue was built at the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century. It was a tabernacle, an assembly hall and a school also. The Jews living here dealt with trade and finance were not really rich people although they managed to build up this Gothic styled synagogue at the beginning of the 14th century ? which is nearly unique in Central Europe.
The Chernivtsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews	Museum	Jewish History	Chernivtsi	The Museum is dedicated to the remarkable but little-known phenomenon of Bukovinian Jewry from the end of eighteenth century to the 1940s.
The Odessa Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Odessa	Despite the small parameters of the museum (total area of exhibition space is 160 sq meters) Museum collected a rich collection of documents, photographs, books, newspapers, postcards, religious garment, household goods, music instruments and some pieces of art.
Irish Jewish Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Dublin 8	The Museum preserves an important, though small, part of Ireland?s cultural and historic heritage.?The Museum contains a substantial collection of memorabilia relating to the Irish Jewish communities and their various associations and contributions to present day Ireland. ?The Museum is an all-Ireland museum and its material associates with the communities of Belfast, Cork, Derry, Drogheda, Dublin, Limerick & Waterford and relates mostly to the last 150 years.
Museum of Jewish History in Russia	Museum	Jewish History	Moscow	The Museum of Jewish History in Russia strives to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with all its varied cultural, social, and political forms.
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre	Museum	Jewish History	Moscow	The permanent exposition presents the history of Russia starting from the period of Catherine II the Great down to our days through the examples of the culture and everyday life of the Jewish people. Unlike many traditional historical museums the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center is interactive. Twelve themed halls designed by the leading company in the sphere of exhibition design ? Ralph Appelbaum Associates ? are equipped with panoramic cinemas, interactive screens, audiovisual installations created with the use of unique photo- and video-archives, documents and interviews. Major exhibitions introducing the main movements and names in fine arts are also held in the Museum.
The State Museum of the History of Religion	Museum	Jewish Culture	St. Petersburg	The State Museum of the History of Religion is one of the world?s few museums and the only one of its kind in Russia. It houses a wide range of historical and cultural artifacts from various countries, ages, peoples. Permanent exhibition includes section ?Judaism. The Bible Images and Motifs in the European Jewish Art (18th ? 20th centuries)?. The museum challenge is in featuring of the Judaic collection through the temporary exhibitions, including ones focused on Jewish religious culture.
Georgian National Museum	Museum	Jewish History	Tbilisi	Georgian National Museum (GNM) was established in 2004 and unifies 20?museums and institutions in Tbilisi and regions of Georgia. GNM comprises museums, research centers and libraries, and preserves?rich, authentic content of cultural heritage and provides learning experiences for?everyone.??
David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of Georgia	Museum	Jewish History	Tbilisi	Georgia and Israel have a long history of a friendly relationship, therefore this museum is dedicated to the Jewish history and culture in Tbilisi. Established in 1932, the museum showcases an interesting exhibition for you to learn more about Georgia-Palestine cultural and historical relations, different periods of the arrival of Jews in the country, the contribution of Georgian Jews to economic, public, cultural, and scientific fields in Georgia and many more.
Faina Petryakovka Scientific Centre for Judaica and Jewish Art	Museum	Jewish Art	Lviv	The Faina Petryakova Center acts as a memorial institute, a private museum and a research center. The main aim of the Center is to preserve the past and promote the future of the Jewish culture.
Beit Hatfutsot ? the Museum of the Jewish People	Museum	Jewish History	Ramat Aviv	The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot connects Jewish people to their roots and strengthens their personal and collective Jewish identity. The Museum of the Jewish People conveys to the world the fascinating narrative of the Jewish people and the essence of the Jewish culture, faith, purpose and deed while presenting the contribution of world Jewry to humanity. The Museum opened in 1978 thanks to the vision of Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress 1954-1977. In 2005, the Israeli Knesset passed the Beit Hatfutsot Law that defines Beit Hatfutsot as ?the National Center for Jewish communities in Israel and around the world?.
Museum of Libyan Jews	Museum	Jewish History	Or Yehuda	The museum holds Judaica objects originating from the numerous and extinct communities in Libya?s main cities and hinterland villages. The permanent exhibition consists of items of Libyan Jewish craftsmanship (gold, silver, copper, wood and leather objects for ritual or everyday purposes), documents, photographs and textiles.
U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art	Museum	Jewish Art	Jerusalem	Through its unique images and artifacts, the Museum?s collection recreates the richness of Jewish life in Italy throughout the ages. A history of cultural multiplicity bonded Italian Jewry to Italy, a country beset by centuries of fractioned states. This trait of the Italian political situation is reflected in the Italian Jewish patrimony. The cultural legacy of Italian Jewry, its vitality, creativity and respect for diverse cultural forms is reflected in its objects of art.
Mauthausen Memorial	Memorial	Holocaust	Mauthausen	The Mauthausen Memorial today is an international site of remembrance and political-historical education. Here, the memory of the victims is being preserved, the history of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its sub-camps is being researched and documented, and through exhibitions and educational programmes its visitors are empowered to deal with and discuss the history of concentration camps.
Kazerne Dossin	Memorial	Holocaust	Mechelen	Based on the deportations from Dossin, this museum deals with the persecution of Jews and gypsies in Belgium and with mass murder and genocide itself.
Broken Hill Synagogue & Museum	Museum & Art Gallery		Broken Hill	The Broken Hill Synagogue is a heritage-listed former synagogue and now museum. The team have preserved the history of the vibrant Jewish community that was once a part of life in the city, but the museum also incorporates much more. There’s memorabilia from local Christian Churches, various local historical relics, as well as a research centre with archives and the quirky Titanic room featuring an exhibition on the fateful ocean liner. There’s even a collection of diecast model vehicles from 1953 to 1983.

We use cookies to improve our website and your experience when using it. Cookies used for the essential operation of this site have already been set. To find out more about the cookies we use and how to delete them, see our privacy policy.
I accept cookies from this site. Agree

@ Produced by Teddy Edward