“Show us your story!“ – Beginning last year, the Jewish participants in the Object Days project have followed this invitation by recounting their migration stories.
Esther Tchlakichvili, born in Salzgitter, Germany, in 1995.
Studying to become a schoolteacher of German and Russian.
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Stephan Pramme
My father is a writer and dramaturge and my mother is a potter. They emigrated from Moscow twenty-five years ago because of the high crime rate. They didn’t want to raise kids there.
What I associate with my parents’ country is not so much objects as things like superstition. That you have to knock on the table three times so that something doesn’t happen. And my parents and grandparents seriously believe that! If you ask me, that’s super Russian. I just don’t get it. I always think, “Come on, people! Nothing will happen if you don’t knock on wood!”
Object Days: Berlin (7)
Berlin
Jews in Berlin tell their migration story
Valentin Lutset
Liora Jaffe
Esther Tchlakichvili
Ella Nilova
Dalia Grinfeld
Anatol Benjamin Schapiro
Anastassia Pletoukhina
Object Days
Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany
JMB Journal 18
Contemporary Jewish Life
Ceramics
Migration
Life Stories
JMB Journal 18: Light
Some of these portraits have been published in our JMB Journal
Publication
2018