European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 30 September – 2 October 2020

A Paris appeals court ordered the French state to return three art canvasses to the heirs of a Jewish collector who died in a German concentration camp in 1945.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Members of a German bikers’ club staged a vigil outside the main synagogue in Munich pledging to protect the city’s Jewish community as it held services for Yom Kippur.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Fearful that the occupying Nazi forces could confiscate a lifetime’s worth of artwork, Jewish painter Gertrud Kauders decided in 1939 to hide her vast array of paintings. Nearly 80 years later, over 30 of them were found by a demolition team tearing down a house south of Prague.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Sir Keir Starmer declared his “wholehearted support” for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre planned for a site next to the House of Commons.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

The Jewish Community of Lisbon (CIL) was able to bring together a congregation of almost 200 people who were present and took part in the religious services performed at the Shaaré Tikvá Synagogue and at the Hotel Fénix, in strict compliance with social distancing restrictions.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

The centuries-old Slat Al Azama Synagogue in Marrakech, Morocco, sat silent for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The polychrome wall paintings in the Beit Midrash of the historic synagogue complex in Włodawa will be restored in a two-year,  €1.2 million operation mostly funded by the EU.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

For the first time since their liberation, the survivors of the Shoah sat down together to reflect on their only recently acquired freedom from their nightmarish bondage.

Friday, October 2, 2020

Lebanon and Israel said they will hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, the first talks in decades between two countries technically still at war.

Friday, October 2, 2020