Joodse vluchtelingen (Jewish Refugees)
The Fate of German-Jewish Émigrés in the Netherlands Presentation of Family Collections as part of Archives Day (in German)
The Jewish Museum Berlin’s (JMB) archive team invites you to a show-and-tell: In conjunction with the exhibition “My Verses are Like Dynamite.” Curt Bloch’s Het Onderwater Cabaret”, they present the stories of German Jews who sought refuge through exile in the Netherlands during the Nazi era.
Past event
Where
Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
In 1939, the children Edgar Lax and Arno and Ulli Rosenfeld fled without their parents from Berlin to the Netherlands, where they were housed near Eindhoven in the refugee shelter Dommelhuis. Growing antisemitism had already led the Beck family to emigrate from Chemnitz to Amsterdam in 1932. But while they were initially able to build a new life, they faced intensifying threats after the German invasion and were only able to survive by going into hiding.
The married couple Hans and Alice Bergmann, from Frankfurt am Main, also survived by going into hiding, where their daughter Marion was born in 1944.
Postcard from Ulli Rosenfeld (1924-1942) in the Netherlands to Gert Berliner (1924-2019) in Sweden, Eindhoven, October 1939, Jewish Museum Berlin
Exhibition “My Verses are Like Dynamite” Curt Bloch’s Het Onderwater Cabaret: Features & Programs
Exhibition Webpage
“My Verses are Like Dynamite” Curt Bloch’s Het Onderwater Cabaret: 9 Feb to 23 Jun 2024
Publications
JMB Journal 26: Het Onderwater Cabaret: Special edition on the occasion of the exhibition
See also
Digital Content
- OWC Online Feature: A Glimpse Behind the Scenes of the Exhibition
- Life and Work of Curt Bloch: Essay with biographical insights, JMB Journal 26
- Hidden in Enschede: Conversation with Contemporary Witness Herbert Zwartz: – Video recording, 16 April 2024, Jewish Museum Berlin, in German
- On the Piano of My Fantasy – Video with Marina Frenk, Richard Gonlag, and Mathias Schäfer, in German, Dutch and German Sign Language
- “It’s Complicated”: A text by Simone Bloch, daughter of Curt Bloch
- “Ik neurie mee ’t propellerlied…”: Essay on Het Onderwater-Cabaret: A Testament to Political Resistance in the Occupied Netherlands, 1943–45
- Clandestine Literature in the Netherlands 1940–1945: Essay, JMB Journal 26
- All Audio Pieces of the Exhibition with Transcriptions and Translations
- All issues of Het Onderwarter-Cabaret: All 95 issues to browse
