After 1945

After 1945

Guided tour for groups through our core exhibition

Guided Tour
By appointment

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

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
2020

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
2020

Triumph of Survival

Cilly Kugelmann on a photo that visualizes the victory over the Nazis

Commentary
May 2020

“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”

A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation

Online Feature
2020

Der Kalte by Robert Schindel

A novel about Vienna of the Waldheim affair, from 1985 to 1989

Book Review
2013

“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