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Thursday, September 17th, 2026 from 19:00 to 20:30
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European Days of Jewish Culture - Lecture: "Kaddish for a Teacher"
European Days of Jewish Culture - Lecture: "Kaddish for a Teacher"
September 17th 2026
SARREGUEMINES
Casino des Faïenceries Rue du Colonel Cazal
Laurence Jost-Lienhard
Laurence Jost-Lienhard, an associate professor of history and geography and a teacher at the Lycée Adrien-Zeller in Bouxwiller, will be presenting her book of the same name.
The persecution suffered by the rural Jewish community of the Pays de Hanau underscores the need to preserve the memory of these events. These events are part of a collective memory shaped by the “Judenrein” policy in Alsace and the Holocaust. Research in the archives of the Bouxwiller high school, along with valuable testimonies, has enabled Laurence Jost-Lienhard and her students to trace the life stories of a teacher, Maurice Bloch, who was deported to Auschwitz on Convoy 62 on November 20, 1943, and of students who met tragic fates: the brothers Roger and Jacques Joseph, deported on Convoy 48 on February 13, 1943; Samuel (Samy) Rothkopf, shot at the Swiss border on December 23, 1942; and Benno (Benoît) Malz, who was killed in a tank in November 1944 outside Belfort. Driven by the need to preserve memory and engage the younger generation, the author brings to life people whose fates were once unknown. Although these stories originated in Alsace, they extend to many other regions, such as the Cher—with the tragedy of the Guerry wells—the Jura, the Doubs, the Isère, the Haute-Vienne, and the Dordogne, all of which served as refuge for Jewish refugees from Alsace.
The Author:
Laurence Jost-Lienhard, in addition to being a teacher, is also the mayor of Bosselshausen and secretary-general of the Association of Mayors and Intermunicipal Presidents 67. Together with several classes of students, the author undertook a
memorial project that led to the production of a documentary film, “Kaddish for a Teacher,” which won the Annie and Charles Corrin Prize and received the National Order of Merit’s Prize for Civic Education (Bas-Rhin) in 2020. As a member of the Stolpersteine 67 association, Laurence Jost-Lienhard initiated the installation of memorial cobblestones in Bouxwiller and Ingwiller in July 2021.
The persecution suffered by the rural Jewish community of the Pays de Hanau underscores the need to preserve the memory of these events. These events are part of a collective memory shaped by the “Judenrein” policy in Alsace and the Holocaust. Research in the archives of the Bouxwiller high school, along with valuable testimonies, has enabled Laurence Jost-Lienhard and her students to trace the life stories of a teacher, Maurice Bloch, who was deported to Auschwitz on Convoy 62 on November 20, 1943, and of students who met tragic fates: the brothers Roger and Jacques Joseph, deported on Convoy 48 on February 13, 1943; Samuel (Samy) Rothkopf, shot at the Swiss border on December 23, 1942; and Benno (Benoît) Malz, who was killed in a tank in November 1944 outside Belfort. Driven by the need to preserve memory and engage the younger generation, the author brings to life people whose fates were once unknown. Although these stories originated in Alsace, they extend to many other regions, such as the Cher—with the tragedy of the Guerry wells—the Jura, the Doubs, the Isère, the Haute-Vienne, and the Dordogne, all of which served as refuge for Jewish refugees from Alsace.
The Author:
Laurence Jost-Lienhard, in addition to being a teacher, is also the mayor of Bosselshausen and secretary-general of the Association of Mayors and Intermunicipal Presidents 67. Together with several classes of students, the author undertook a
memorial project that led to the production of a documentary film, “Kaddish for a Teacher,” which won the Annie and Charles Corrin Prize and received the National Order of Merit’s Prize for Civic Education (Bas-Rhin) in 2020. As a member of the Stolpersteine 67 association, Laurence Jost-Lienhard initiated the installation of memorial cobblestones in Bouxwiller and Ingwiller in July 2021.
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