The Right to Life

6 September 2018
Lecture by Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers

30 August 2018
Is Antisemitism increasing with the number of refugees from Arab countries? We discuss with political, academic, and practical experts which manifestations of antisemitism among Arab migrants and Muslims in Germany exist (in German).

26 June 2018
Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) discusses the challenges migration poses to liberal democracies.

25 June 2018
Hanni Levy describes her wartime memories and experiences. Hanni Levy, born in 1924, survived the Nazi era in hiding in Berlin with the help of courageous friends.

18 June 2018
In this symposium, research that explores the origins of Jewish ceremonial objects exclusively in Israel and Germany, took center stage for the first time.

14 June 2018
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

7 June 2018
Opening Session of the academic conference
Including Imani Perry's keynote »What Lies Underneath: Difficult Histories and the Resurgence of The Far Right«

28 May 2018
Born in Breslau in 1925, Anita Lasker Wallfisch studied cello in Berlin from 1938. In 1942, Anita’s parents were deported to Izbica and murdered, and in 1943 Anita and her sister Renate were deported to Ausschwitz.

3 May 2018
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

12 April 2018
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

9 April 2018
Margot Friedländer was born in 1921 in Berlin and has had close ties with the museum for many years. She reads from her memoir, which takes its title from her mother’s last message to her: Try to Make Your Life.

20 March 2018
Lectures by David Feldman and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

8 March 2018
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

12 February 2018
Reading and Talk with the Author Joshua Cohen and Literary Scholar Jan Wilm

31 January 2018
Born in 1924 in West Prussia, Walter Frankenstein lived in Berlin from 1936. When deportation threatened, he went into hiding with his wife and their five-week-old son. The family managed to survive with the help of friends.

25 January 2018
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

11 January 2018
Eyewitness Horst Selbiger in Conversation with Léontine Meijer-van Mensch

4 December 2017
Born in Celle in 1924, 14-year-old Kurt Roberg fled alone after the 1938 November pogrom to the Netherlands, where he was to finish school. He finally reaches his family in New York via Berlin and Lisbon in 1941.
Language: German

23 November 2017
Part of our lecture series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights

16 November 2017
Discussion on concepts of being Jewish within the third generation of Jews in Germany (in German and English)

24 to 27 October 2017
International conference for scholars from different continents and academic disciplines, who discuss questions of culture, identity and memory of Jewish life in Arab and Muslim majority countries.

23 October 2017
Henry Wuga was born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father in Nuremberg in 1924. In 1938, his parents were able to send him to Scotland with a children’s transport and later in 1947, he could bring his mother, who had survived in hiding, to his home in Glasgow.
Language: German

26 September 2017
Discussion on the Importance of Minority Perspectives for European Societies’ Commemorative Cultures (in German and English)

18 September 2017
Book Presentation and Discussion (in German)

9 September 2017
An Evening with Israeli and German Poets (in Hebrew and German)

29 June 2017
Discussion with Reina Lewis and Meriem Lebdiri (in German and English)

26 Januar 2017
Theme day with lectures by Michel Abitbol, Eric Salerno, Patrick Bernhard, Haim Saadoun, and panel discussion
Language: German, English, and French

Conference on 16 September 2016
With: Dr. Rosa Fava, Juliane Jurewicz, Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, Olga Gerstenberger, Ozan Keskinkiliç, Anita Awosusi, Ilona Lagrene, Prof. Dr. Michael Rothberg, and Serpil Polat
Language: German and English, no subtitles

Panel discussion on 7 September 2016
With: Dan Diner, Adam Michnik, Dietmar Herz, Étienne François, and Hans Kundnani
Language: German, no subtitles