After the war, nearly one thousand displaced persons (DPs) lived with their children in Frankfurt am Main. When the Jewish community admitted them in 1949, it had membership cards made, but two-thirds were never picked up.
The surviving cards show no signs of use. Their intended owners had probably already left Germany for Israel or the United States.
Unclaimed Membership Cards
Membership card of Dora Tauber, born on 22 Jun 1898; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/133, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Josef Baumgarten, born on 3 Jul 1925; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA Rep/125768/0, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Helene Lascher, née Sternfeld, born on 26 May 1912; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/80, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Josef Majer Goldberg, born on 12 Mar 1907; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/1, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Sala Dresdner, née Schorn, born on 8 Aug 1904; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/32, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Heinrich Duzing, born on 22 Jul 1919; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/5, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Dora Tauber, born on 22 Jun 1898; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/133, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Josef Baumgarten, born on 3 Jul 1925; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA Rep/125768/0, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Helene Lascher, née Sternfeld, born on 26 May 1912; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/80, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Josef Majer Goldberg, born on 12 Mar 1907; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/1, photo: Roman März
Membership card of Sala Dresdner, née Schorn, born on 8 Aug 1904; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession NDA/10/32, photo: Roman März
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Core Exhibition: 13 Objects – 13 Stories (13)
13 Objects – 13 Stories
A Torah shield, a sculpture, a cushion: 13 unusual objects tell 13 stories of Jewish life. One of the tours of the JMB app leads right through the exhibition to eye-catchers of all kinds, some small, some big. What would a museum be without its many objects, each rich in meaning? You can get a sneak peek of the objects here on our website.
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L’amitié au coeur (Friendship of the Heart)
by Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris, 1765, marble
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Finds from the Memmelsdorf Genizah
Memmelsdorf (find site), ca. 1725–1830, paper, ink, fabric, leather, porcelain
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Torah Shield
donated by Isaak Jakob Gans (1723–1798), Hamburg, 1760–1765, silver
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Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels)
Anselm Kiefer, 1990–2019, lead, iron, glass, copper wire, charcoal, Aquatec
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Manheimer Family Portrait
by Julius Moser (1805–1879), Berlin, 1850, oil on canvas
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Puppet Show
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Käte Baer-Freyer (1885–1988), Berlin, ca. 1924, plywood, metals
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Decorated Cushion
“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED ...,” Daniel Josefsohn (1961–2016), Berlin, 2014/15, textile
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Silver Formerly Owned by Jews
Provenance: up to 1939 unknown Jewish owners, 1939 Hamburg Tax Authority
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Going-away Present
Bruno Heidenheim, Album to bid farewell to Margot (1913–2010) and Ernst (1898–1971) Rosenthal, Chemnitz, 1936
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Hand Washbasin
Manufacturer: S. & D. Loewenthal, Frankfurt am Main, 1895/96, silver
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No Longer in the Country
Unclaimed membership cards for the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main, 1949
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Composition
by Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), 1938, tempera on cardboard
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Yellow Star
of the Lehmann family, Berlin, 1941–1945
Displaced Persons
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