Jewish Museum Berlin

The W. Michael Blumenthal Academy is located across the street from the Jewish Museum Berlin at Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz in the former flower market hall of Kreuzberg.

The Landhaus Lehnitz is a symbol of Jewish life, faith, resistance, self-contemplation of one's own culture and identity, lived care for community members, and therefore of a Jewish community that responds to and shapes the world in which it lives. It is the result of a transformation from a Jewish convalescent home for working women and adolescent girls to a Jewish convalescent home in the midst of National Socialist terror.In 1896 the administrations of the Jewish hospitals and the Poor Commission from the Jewish community of Berlin came together.

Hermann Hirschberg's home and place of work

• Hermann (Hirsch) Hirschberg was born in Schwetz on March 20, 1822. A circumcision certificate issued by the Jewish community of Schwetz in 1848 states that he was circumcised in the synagogue after his birth in accordance with the "Mosaic Law."  He became a master furrier like his father Lipman Hirschberg. A certificate issued in Neuchâtel in 1850 confirms that he passed the master's examination.
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• He married Ernestine Levy in the first marriage and after her death Sara Rosenthal in the second marriage.

The master carpenter David Fiks (1893-1981) had passed his master craftsman's examination before the Berlin Chamber of Crafts in 1924. He then ran a business at Sebastianstraße 7. In 1933, he opened his new business in the Uhlandstraße 43.The studio of modern furs of David Fiks in Uhlandstra&szlig 43 advertised itself as a large warehouse of the finest furs;Individual customization«, »Fur reworking and modernization«, »Specialized fur preservation« and »trimmings of all kinds«.

The Jewish merchant Ludwig Steinmetz (*29.4.1885 in Odessa) opened his jewelry and precious metals store in Berlin in 1921. Already since 1915 he was active in the board of the "Diamond Club", an association for jewelry dealers. From 1927 to 1933, he was the first chairman of the association, until Ludwig Steinmetz himself resigned in 1933 shortly before being forced to resign.

Dr. Oskar Hirschberg was born on 6/9/1866 in Schwetz an der Warthe. He obtained his license to practice medicine after studying in Kiel and Berlin in 1890. On Jan. 26, 1915, he was awarded the title of Sanitätsrat. From 1922 to 1926 he worked at Sybelstraße 51 in Berlin. From 1927 he lived and worked in Leibnizstraße. He had been married to a non-Jewish woman in his second marriage since 1923, so he was able to remain in Berlin until 1945, but died of cardiac insufficiency as a result of malnutrition. From 1938 his license as a substitute health insurance and welfare practice expired.

The Jewish Museum Berlin opened in 2001, and since then has been one of the outstanding institutions in the European museum landscape. The exhibitions, the publications, the educational work and the diverse program of events are aimed at a broad audience in Germany and around the world. The museum focuses on the history of Jewish life as well as on Jewish everyday culture with contemporary relevance. The museum is located in Kreuzberg, not far from Checkpoint Charlie and the former Berlin Wall.