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Shoah/Ho­lo­caust

Objects Related to the Shoah

(in German)

Online Collections

Two portrait photos side by side: a short-haired middle-aged man in shirt and blue sweater and a man with gray beard and glasses in brown jacket

Vanishing Points of Memory. On the Holocaust and Colonialism in the Present Day

A conversation with Natan Sznaider and René Aguigah, in German

Video Recording
31 Jan 2023

Woman with long black hair and dark jacket looks friendly into the camera.

Holocaust Commemoration in Ukraine from Soviet Times to the Present Day

Interview with Anna Medvedovska, historian, Institute for Holocaust Studies in Dnipro

Interview
2023

Collage of a portrait of an old man with a mustache (Leon Weintraub) and the cover of a book titled The Reconciliation with Evil.

Reconciliation with Evil: Story of a Survival

Book Presentation with Leon Weintraub, in German

Video Recording
27 Oct 2022

Portrait Yoed Sorek

“The Lonely Living Stars”

Concert for the Memorial Day of the Victims of National Socialism, in German

Video Recording
27 Jan 2022

“In the quarry, children freeze in the rusty air”

Speech by Ruth Klüger on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2016

Blog
Jan 27 2018

Collage of paper scraps and the portrait of a woman.

No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie

A retrospective

Exhibition
26 Feb to 31 Jul 2016

A middle-aged man sits in a studio.

The Holocaust and the Problem of Visual Representation

Talk with Peter Weibel about Boris Lurie and visual representation of the Holocaust, in German

Audio Recording
30 May 2016

Completed document with stamps.

Red Cross Letter to Emmy Warschauer

Proof of life in 25 words or less

From our Holdings

The Realignment of “Education after Auschwitz” in Immigration Society

Book presentation and panel discussion marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in German

Audio Recording
27 Jan 2015

Black and white photograph with children in concentration camp clothes in Auschwitz standing behind barbed wire fence

On International and Other Remembrance Days

Mirjam Wenzel about 27 January an other remembrance days for the Holocaust

Essay
2015

Varieté. Inmitten eines Hofes eine provisorisch beleuchtete Bühne und Artist*innen. Rundum herbeikommende Zuschauer*innen

Bedřich Fritta

Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

Exhibition
17 May to 29 Sep 2013 and 28 Feb to 4 May 2014

Black and white photo: a man next to a woman, she holds a baby to the camera.

The Story of Uri Kozower

Uri and his family were among the last people to be murdered in Auschwitz’s gas chambers

Essay
Jan 2014

Varieté. Inmitten eines Hofes eine provisorisch beleuchtete Bühne und Artist*innen. Rundum herbeikommende Zuschauer*innen

Bedřich Fritta

Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Featuring many of the drawings from the exhibition

Exhibition Website
2013

Painting, a man walks down a hallway.

Loneliness by Felix Nussbaum

The painter strikingly portrays his plight as one of the persecuted

From our Holdings

Painted in words. The portrait of a lost time

Reading and talk with Samuel Bak, in German

Audio Recording
10 Oct 2007

Letter with redactions.

A Desperate Letter to Their Son in Sweden

“As long as we are still here, we will write to you every third day”

From our Holdings

A bag filled with several letters.

Frieda Neuber’s Leather Pouch

The story of a failed emigration

From our Holdings

Scene from the movie “Babiy Yar: The Forgotten Crime”

Babiy Yar: The Forgotten Crime

A film from the Artur Brauner Collection at our library

Movie
2003

Movie poster for “You Are Free, Dr. Korczak”

You Are Free, Dr. Korczak

A film from the Artur Brauner Collection at our library

Movie
1974

Scene from the movie “Man and Beast”

Man and Beast

A film from the Artur Brauner Collection at our library

Movie
1963

Movie poster (detail) for “Murder by Signature”

Murder by Signature

Documentary, partly about the Eichmann Trial

Movie
1961

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