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Alice Zadek with her daughter Ruth and her nephew David Hopp on Stalinallee (Karl-Marx-Allee), Berlin, ca. 1956; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Ruth Zadek, photo: Gerhard Zadek

Josef and Lizzi Zimmering`s traveling trunk, probably Britain, 1930s to 1940s; on loan from the Zimmering family, photo: Roman März

Résistance armband belonging to Dora Benjamin née Davidsohn, France, ca. 1942-1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Peter Schaul, photo: Roman März

Lea Grundig, Clenched hand, Palestine, 1940s, ink, pencil; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

A printable file is available upon request at presse@jmberlin.de.

Photo series of the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße, Berlin, September 1987; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Mathias Brauner

Barbara Honigmann, A Friend from Back When (Thomas Brasch), Strasbourg, 1997, Öl auf Leinwand; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Menorah from the Jewish Cultural Association, Manufacturer: VEB, Wohnraumleuchten Berlin, Berlin, ca. 1975–1989; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the Berlin Jewish Cultural Association, photo: Roman März

Torah curtain from the destroyed Old Synagogue of Magdeburg, Germany, 19th century; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the Jewish Community of Magdeburg, K.d.ö.R, photo: Roman März

Marion Kahnemann, Henriette, Dresden, 1985, Ceramic, glazed; Jewish Museum Berlin, on loan from the artist, photo: Roman März

Silvia Dzubas, Stowaway Holdover, photo series, 2013; Jewish Museum Berlin

Vera Singer, Epilogue (Triptych), Berlin, 1990, oil on particle board; Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, photo: Kai-Annett Becker

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the exhibition “Another Country. Jewish in the GDR”; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Events on sundays in Jul and Aug 2023: Brunch Fromet Mendelssohn

Portrait of Fromet Mendelssohn; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Event on 21 Sep 2023: Martin Schreier & Stern-Combo Meißen

Copyright: Deutsche & Israelische Projekte

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Hetty Berg, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, and Dr. Kristina Hasenpflug, Managing Director Deutsche Bank Stiftung; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

View of the Rafael Roth Gallery with the 2020 installation DRUMMERRSSS by Gilad Ratman; Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Gilad Ratman, DRUMMERRSSS, 2020, video installation commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Gilad Ratman, DRUMMERRSSS, 2020, video installation commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Light projection on the stairs to the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, design: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Chezweitz GmbH/Hella Rolfes

Entrance to the core exhibition Jewish Life in Germany: Past and Present; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the welcome point and the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the 2009 installation Visual Prayer by Hagit Hollander-Shimoni; Hagit Hollander-Shimoni, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

The Shabbat area in the theme room Prayer and Practice; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

The Shabbat area in the theme room Prayer and Practice; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the theme room Music; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the theme room Music; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room Ashkenaz; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room Ashkenaz; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room In the Early Modern Period; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room In the Early Modern Period; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans, a media station shows Berlin around 1800; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

A glimpse of Weimar cinema in the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

A glimpse of Weimar cinema in the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

The interactive Family Album presents ten collections from the museum holdings; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

The interactive Family Album presents ten collections from the museum holdings; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the Hall of Fame; Illustrations: Andree Volkmann, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the Hall of Fame; Illustrations: Andree Volkmann, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the theme room Art and Artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the theme room Art and Artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of Anna Zimet's farewell letter before her deportation in 1943; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

The Anti-Semitism Debate Room in the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the prism display cases with ceremonial objects in the theme room The Jewish Object; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

View of the installation Mesubin by Yael Reuveny and Clemens Walter at the end of the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

View of the installation Mesubin by Yael Reuveny and Clemens Walter at the end of the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Torah roll, Hohensalza (Inowrocław) 1903; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the Leavor family in memory of Dr. Hans and Luise Librowicz, photo: Roman März

Prayer for rain, found in the Memmelsdorf genizah, Memmelsdorf (place of discovery), approx. 1762–1830; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Learning Hebrew, Zimbabwe, approx. 2005; Tobi Asmoucha Photography

Collection of tzedakah boxes; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Anselm Kiefer, Schewirat ha-Kelim (The Breaking of the Vessels), 1990–2020; Anselm Kiefer, photo: Roman März

Finger ring with menorah, 4th century, replica; Museum Augusta Raurica, Augst, photo: Roman März

Abwraham ben Baruch, Meir ben Baruch, and Jizchak ben Meir, Sefer Sinai, Germany 1391; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Portrait of the Schutzjude ("protected Jew") Samuel Salomon from Reichmannsdorf, with Mayor Faber and the hunter Mahlmeister, around 1730; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Two-part coin with screw closure for the execution of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer ("Jud Süß"), probably Württemberg, approx. 1738; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Torah shield donated by Jakob Gans, Hamburg 1760–1765; Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, photo: Jens Ziehe

Yael Buchbinder-Shimoni, Zeena u-Reena, Israel 2017; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Johann Christoph Frisch, Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn, Berlin 1783; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Clara Lobedan, Fanny Lewald in her Study, Berlin 1880; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Max Liebermann, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, Berlin 1929; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Hand-washing basin, manufacturer: S. & D. Löwenthal, Frankfurt am Main 1895–1896; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

View of the Plauen synagogue, virtual reality application, 2020; TU Darmstadt, Digital Design Unit, in cooperation with Architectura Virtualis

Käte Baer-Freyer, puppets of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and Solomon's personal physician Simeon, Berlin, approx. 1924; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Eri Heller, photo: Roman März

Music-themed playing cards, hand-made by the Librowicz family, Berlin 1930s; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Rudi Leavor, photo: Roman März

Hugo Dohns, memorial tablet for Julius Reis, Germany 1921; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Julius Moser, painting of the Manheimer family, Berlin 1850; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the descendants of Hermann and Mary Blaschko, photo: Roman März

Jankel Adler, Sabbat (Shabbat), 1925; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Jakob Steinhardt, Der Sonntagsprediger (The Sunday Sermonizer), 1930–1934; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Otto Freundlich, Komposition, 1938; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Felix Nussbaum, Einsamkeit (Loneliness), 1942; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, photo: Roman März

Sign for the law offices of Dr. Werner Liebenthal, Berlin 1933; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Hanna Liebenthal, photo: Jens Ziehe

Herbert Sonnenfeld, Leni Sonnenfeld with two students from the Theodor Herzl School playing an Aliyah-themed game, Berlin 1935; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin

Bruno Heidenheim, farewell album for Margot and Ernst Rosenthal before their emigration to the United States, Chemnitz 1936; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Karin and Steve Rosenthal, photo: Roman März

Torah binder from the destroyed Jewish Museum Worms, Worms 1938; Jewish Museum Worms in the Rashi House, photo: Roman März

Cilly Meyer's identification card with yellow marking denoting Jewish refugee status, Shanghai 1944; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Trude Meyer

Postcard from Fritz and Ilse Wolffsky to their brother Adolf Wolffsky shortly before their deportation, Tichau (Tychy) 27 June 1943; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Jon Wolffsky

Silver that was once Jewish property; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), photo: Roman März

Frédéric Brenner, Minima Moralia, Berlin 2017 ; Jewish Museum Berlin, acquired with the support of Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Wool sweater owned by Sabina Milman, Schwäbisch Hall approx. 1948; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Isa Milman and Sepora Mayim Jacobson, photo: Roman März

Sabina Milman and Miriam Cecher with their daughters, Schwäbisch Hall approx. 1948; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Isa Milman and Sepora Mayim Jacobson

Florian Willnauer, Jewish veteran of the Red Army in front of the Soviet monument in Tiergarten, Berlin 2005; Jewish Museum Berlin

Ètienne-Maurice Falconet, L’amitié au coeur, Paris 1765; Property of the Federal Republic of Germany. For provenance history see: www.provenienzdatenbank.
bund.de; Photo: Roman März

Daniel Josefsohn, decorative pillow, Berlin 2014–2015; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Flamenco dress owned by Sylvin Rubinstein, Hamburg, around the 1980s; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Kuno Kruse, photo: Roman März

Framed pincushion, Austria, approx 1941–1990; Dr. Wolfgang Georg Fischer, Vienna / London, photo: Roman März

Benno Elkan, Hanukkah lamp, Germany 1903–1920; Spertus Institute Chicago, photo: Roman März

Havdalah set belonging to the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Hamburg 1841; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Hetty Berg took up the post of Director of the JMB in April 2020; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Lars Bahners took up the post of Managing Director at the Jewish Museum Berlin in December 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Julia Friedrich took up the post of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Julia Friedrich took up the post of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Bülent Durmuş took up the post of Organizational Director at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2008; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Bülent Durmuş took up the post of Organizational Director at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2008; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building and Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, showing the Garden of Exile
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, showing the Garden of Exile and the Holocaust Tower
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Garden of Exile, detail
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, detail of facade
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, detail of facade
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building and Glass Courtyard, view from the Garden
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Glass Courtyard
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, entranceway stairs from Old Building to Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Axes
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Axes
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, stairs to the Core Exhibition
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Schalechet (Fallen Leaves), installation by Menashe Kadishman
Jewish Museum Berlin, donation of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Schalechet (Fallen Leaves), installation by Menashe Kadishman
Jewish Museum Berlin, donation of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, windows in the stairwell of the Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Glass Courtyard
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin and ANOHA – The Children‘s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Interior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the library in the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the library in the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe