(Former) Jewish Girls' School (Berlin)

The first Jewish girls' school for the Jewish community in Berlin was opened in 1835 in Mitte. After several changes of location, it moved to Auguststra&szlig 11 in 1930. The building had been completed two years earlier by Alexander Beer, the community's master builder at the time. He had the house built in the New Objectivity style. With an area of 3,000 m² it offered space for über 300 Schülerinnen.

On June 30, 1942, the Jüdische Mädchenschule was closed by the Nazis. Most of the teachers and students were deported to extermination camps. Subsequently, the building served as a military hospital until the end of the war.

After the war, the school was reopened. In the course of the sector division the school building was now in the Soviet part of Berlin, the späteren GDR. It was given the name „Polytechnische Oberschule Bertolt Brecht".
Since too few students attended the school, it was closed again in 1996. The building was allowed to fall into disrepair.

Thanks to the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Jewish Claims Conference), the school was officially transferred to the Jewish community of Berlin in 2009.
In early 2011, the community signed a long-term lease for the cultural and gastronomic use of the building. Thus, since 2012, several facilities are located here, which enrich both the Berlin food culture (restaurant and bar) and the art scene (museums and galleries)