Florian Willnauer, Jewish veteran of the Red Army in front of the Soviet monument in Tiergarten, Berlin 2005; Jewish Museum Berlin
May 8 or 9? – Jewish Perspectives
Public Guided Tour to Mark the 80th Anniversary of the End of the War (in German)
May 8, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the war. The guided tour through the rooms of the core exhibition Catastrophe and After 1945 shows Jewish reactions to National Socialist persecution and Jewish perspectives in the post-war period.
Past event
Where
Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. The Jewish soldier Yehudah Rubashevsky from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was one of the liberators of Auschwitz. Around 500,000 Jewish soldiers fought in the Red Army alone. They celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany at the end of the war.
In the exhibition chapter Jewrej, a photo shows Jewish war veterans posing in front of the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten on May 9, 2005.
The tour traces individual biographies from our family collections, shows how people lived in a camp for displaced persons and also follows the Jewish-American perspective from which, for example, the photographer David Scherman captured National Socialist symbols with the gaze of the victor.
