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Family Collec­tions

  • Left: black and white portrait photo of a young lady. She wears a high-necked dress with hat in the style of the 1910s. Right: cover of a worn diary with leather binding and the golden lettering “Tage-Buch” (diary).

    “No, I Want Dr. O.”

    Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12), compiled from holdings of the Oliven family collection

    Online Feature
    2021

  • Cover of a landscape photo album with leather binding

    Documenting Brutality

    Historical sources on the antisemitic violence in Germany between 1930 and 1938 in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin

    Online Project
    2020

  • A woman holds a picture with a building view into the camera.

    That can’t be! Can it?

    Coincidences in the archive

    Online Feature
    2020

  • Drawing of a young woman leafing through a diary. She is sitting inside in front of a window

    Anna meets Leonie

    Drawings by Anna Justicz, inspired by Leonie Meyer’s diaries from 1901–1928, compiled from holdings of the Oliven family collection

    Art Project
    2020

  • People touch a large touchscreen wall that displays documents and objects

    The Family Album

    Peter Schaul recounts the life of his mother, Dora Schaul, whose estate is part of the interactive installation The Family Album, in German

    Video Recording
    9 Nov 2020

  • Hands reach into a box of letters.

    Unpacking Donations

    Family collections arriving at the museum

    Photo Project
    2018

  • The illustration shows a young man climbing a wall made of puzzle pieces.

    Kurt: Hunting for Clues

    – Based on documents and objects from the bequest of Leonie Oliven’s son Klaus

    Online Feature
    2018

  • The photo shows a man, a woman and two children in front of them, all standing outside. The two boys and the man are wearing shorts, the woman a short-sleeved dress with a floral pattern.

    Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein

    With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection

    Online Feature
    2017/18

  • Zeichnung eines Rabbiners, der ein Brautpaar segnet

    Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album

    A worthwhile insight into our archive

    Online Feature
    2017

  • Memorial stones in rows, grass in between, a small wall in the background

    12 of 12,000

    Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War

    Online Project
    2016

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