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A Lasting Disturbance
Monika Flores on a series of portraits of participants in the Majdanek Trial
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Contemporary History
Objects of contemporary history in our online collections (in German)
Online Collections
Contemporary History Collection
Since 2015, we have focused on collecting objects from after 1945.
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A Persian bar mitzvah in Hamburg
A largely unknown aspect of Jewish life after 1945
20 years, 21 objects
2021
“Service Card!”
Rabbi Martin Riesenburger worked as a prison chaplain during the Cold War.
From our Holdings
Rededication of the Synagogue at the Jewish Hospital
From our Holdings
Easy as That
Jewish Childhood and Youth in Germany after 1945, from the series Zeitzeugnisse aus dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin, in German
Publication
2002
Der Kalte by Robert Schindel
A novel about Vienna of the Waldheim affair, from 1985 to 1989.
Book Review
2013
After 1945
Guided tour for groups through our core exhibition
Guided Tour
By appointment
L’amitié au coeur (Friendship of the Heart)
This sculpture, stolen by the Nazis, was considered lost until fragments were discovered in the early 1990s.
Objects from Our Core Exhibition
Decorated Cushion
“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED—there’s got to be a way to capitalize on that in GERMANY,” Daniel Josefsohn, Berlin, 2014/15
Objects from Our Core Exhibition
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”
A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation
Online Feature
2020
Triumph of Survival
Cilly Kugelmann on a photo that visualizes the victory over the Nazis
Commentary
May 2020