Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Gift

– How Jewish Memory Objects Preserve Chinese History I recently shared my view on several objects from Shanghai in the museum’s collection on this blog. Now, I want to draw your attention to a few marriage certificates that caught my eye not just because of their elegant design and well-preserved condition after more than 70 …
Bielschowsky (1902–2000) and Albert Elias Less (1887–1952), 1944; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift

Second Episode of our blog series: “Remembrances of the life of Walter Frankenstein” Jesse Owens – this name means something to most people, even today. The black athlete from the U.S. national team decided in 1936, disregarding the expectations and fears of his family, friends, and a large number of Americans, to compete in the …
the Auerbach Jewish Orphanage, Berlin, around 1940–1944; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift

The fourth episode in our blog series “Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein” What were they to do now? Nothing was left of the Frankensteins’ old life. Their relatives and friends had been murdered, including Walter and Leonie’s mothers. All of Europe lay in ruins. The first step in the Frankensteins’ new life was …
the kibbutz, Greifenberg, around December 1945–May 1946; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift

The Tragic Fate of Shmuel Dancyger Z. L. During a visit to my hometown of Calgary Alberta, Canada in the summer of 2014, I had the opportunity to meet with Morris and Ann Dancyger, both child survivors of the Holocaust. Morris Dancyger was one of the very few children to have been liberated by the Russians …
The family at the grave of Shmuel Dancyger; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Morris

hours before Schragenheim’s arrest, Berlin, 21 August 1944; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift

Max Karp was one of the roughly 17,000 Polish nationals who were expelled from Germany in the Polenaktion (“Polish Action”) of October 27–29, 1938. He wrote extensively on his deportation in a letter.
Mendel Max Karp, Berlin around 1935; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Joanne Intrator

apartment, Bandhagen (outside of Stockholm), around 1956–1957; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift

Hanukkah Ball of the Jewish Cultural Center, Berlin 12.12.2004 © Photo: Igor Chalmiev, gift

Mendel Max Karp, Berlin around 1935; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Joanne Intrator

Frankenstein with her sons Peter-Uri and Michael, Hadera, 1947; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift