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Helga Krohn: Bruno Asch

Talk and Reading with the Author (audio recording available, in German)

Bruno Asch was a prominent local politician in Frankfurt and Berlin, well respected as a “financial genius” in the difficult years after the First World War and the economic crisis, a socialist and a consciously non-religious Jew, born of humanity and spirit. The Nazis dismissed him as treasurer in Berlin in 1933. He fled to Amsterdam, where he took his own life after the Nazi invasion in 1940.

recording available

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Helga Krohn has retraced his eventful life on the basis of letters, diary entries, and photos.

Audio recording of the reading Bruno Asch with the author Helga Krohn on 19 May 2016, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2016

Where, when, what?

  • When 19 May 2016
  • Where Old Building, ground level, Auditorium

    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

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  • Entry fee

    free

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