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The mayor of Strasbourg, Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, was decapitated by guillotine in December 1793. Women were not allowed to wear traditional costumes and Christian worship was forbidden. [18] Strasbourg's status as a free city was revoked by the French Revolution. Enragés, such as Eulogius Schneider, ran the city. During this time ...
Pogrom of Strasbourg by Emile Schweitzer. The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, when the entire Jewish community of several thousand Jews were publicly burnt to death as part of the Black Death persecutions. [1] Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon.
In most places visited, the oldest such as the prison of Health, the most recent, such as Pontet prison, the number of inmates exceeded the originally planned number of places for these institutions. » This is particularly due to the fact that short-stay prisons are not subject to the rule of individual cells, which is the Numerus clausus. The ...
Memorial of the 86 Jewish victims murdered in 1943 at Struthof by August Hirt. Located at Institute of Anatomy of Strasbourg (Hôpital civil).. August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
Ensisheim Central Prison is a French prison located in Ensisheim, in the Haut-Rhine department, in the Grand Est region of France. It was constructed around 1614 as a Jesuit college, which was closed when the Jesuits were expelled in 1765. The prison is administered by the multi-regional directorate of prison services in Strasbourg.
Outside view (2018) Palais Floor Plan [1] Pediment of façade Staircase of great hall Sphinx in great hall The Palais de Justice of Strasbourg is a large 19th-century neo-Greek building (with neo-Egyptian elements) in the Tribunal quarter of the Neustadt district of Strasbourg, France, which houses Strasbourg's main court, the Tribunal de Grande Instance.
Today, Pathé News, Inc. is a family-owned private company. Other U.S. newsreel series included Paramount News (1927–1957), Fox Movietone News (1928–1963), Hearst Metrotone News/News of the Day (1914–1967), Universal Newsreel (1929–1967) and The March of Time (1935–1951).
The liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944 during the Alsace campaign (November 1944 – March 1945) in the last months of World War II.After the liberation of Mulhouse on 21 November 1944 by the 1st Armored Division, [1] General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and the 2nd Armored Division entered the city of Strasbourg in France after having liberated Sarrebourg and La ...