The relaunch of our first online exhibition “Jewish Life since 1945” portrays the pluralization of Jewish lifeworlds in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on remigration and migration movements.
By no means without controversy, the first Jewish congregations were established in West Germany immediately after the end of the war, including in Hamburg in the summer of 1945. However, it was to take several decades before Jewish life in Germany could become a matter of course.
Our seventh online exhibition looks at Jewish women as actors in their respective fields of activity: in the family and at a medical congress, at school and in court, or at the theater and a shipping company. Using ego documents, this exhibit highlights exemplary women’s biographies and their historical significance.
Looking at historical and contemporary women’s biographies and the work of women in various fields opens up new perspectives on Jewish history.
The sixth online exhibition focuses on ships and the experiences of three individuals from Hamburg with this maritime space.
Previously unpublished sources by Joseph Carlebach, Ida Dehmel and Ernst Heymann—a rabbi, an art patron and a merchant—make their three intellectual and emotional worlds during the Nazi era visible and illustrate their feelings of being torn between pleasure and dismay, joy and despair, spirit of discovery and fear of the “foreign.”
In our fourth online exhibit presented as part of our edition of key documents, we highlight Jewish Private Photography in the 20th Century.
On the basis of selected objects the exhibit is dedicated to the act of photographing (when are which photos taken and why?), the preservation and survival of photographs, and finally the use of photographs as sources for historians.
The images were reviewed and arranged into six chapters by Sylvia Necker in the context of her research project “German-Jewish Family Albums and the Narration of Identities from Imperial Germany” at the University of Nottingham.
Our third online exhibit organized as part of the edition of key documents is dedicated to the couple Max and Frida Salzberg
The exhibition highlights the biographies of Max and Frida Salzberg on the basis of selected objects from the apartment kept at the Altona Museum today and supplemented by documents from the couple’s estate preserved in the Hamburg State Archive. At the same time, we aim to provide insights into the Jewish history of Hamburg, into everyday life and home decor during the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era and the postwar period.
Our second online exhibit organized as part of the edition of key documents is dedicated to the topic of “migration.”
Between 1880 and 1914 more than two million Jews from eastern and east central Europe resettled, mainly in the United States. More than half of all Jewish migrants from eastern Europe to America embarked on their transatlantic voyage in either Hamburg or Bremen.
In this first online exhibit presented as part of our edition of key documents, we highlight Jewish history after the Holocaust and National Socialism.
When the first Jewish congregations were formed in West Germany immediately after the end of the war, as was the case in Hamburg in summer 1945, this was by no means uncontroversial. It took several decades, however, until Jewish life in Germany was to became self-evident – both for the Jews living there and for the non-Jewish majority society.
