Vaad Hatzala
Rescue committee founded in 1939 by Orthodox rabbis in the USA and Canada with the aim of rescuing Eastern European rabbis and religious students. After 1945, the Vaad Hatzala provided spiritual and material support to the DPs in the DP camps. In Munich, the organization ran an office at Bachmairstraße 12, where the Deputy Director for Germany, Rabbi Aviezer Bustin, also lived.
Editorial office of the newspaper Undzer Veg
The newspaper was published as an organ of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews from October 1945 to January 1950, with a circulation of up to 30,000. From the first issue, the paper was printed in Yiddish with Hebrew letters. As there was not enough typeset, most of the Yiddish DP newspapers had to use the Roman alphabet. The transcription was based on Polish phonetics.
Jewish Museum Munich
The Jewish Museum Munich, an institution of the state capital München, is dedicated to the diversity of Jewish history and culture. It was opened in 2007 and is part of the ensemble of buildings on St.-Jakobs-Platz, which also includes the Ohel-Jakob Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center. On three exhibition areas, the museum deals with Jewish life in Munich in the past and today as well as the topics of migration and participation. In addition to the permanent exhibition „Voices_Places_Times“, temporary exhibitions are shown regularly.
World "ORT" Union - Central Office
The "ORT" ( Organization - Reconstruction - Training ) was founded in Russia in 1880. It was led by five Russian-Jewish philanthropists, including Samuel Polyakov, Naphtali Herz Günzburg and Nikolai Bakst. The "Society for Craft and Agricultural Work" in Russia had set itself the task of promoting the vocational training of Jews in Russia. With the relocation of the " ORT " to Berlin in 1921 , not only did the name change to " World ORT Union ", but its radius of action also increased - World Ort Union operated internationally.
Therese Giehse
This digital biography about Therese Giehse was created as part of a P-seminar at the Theresia Gerhardinger Gymnasium am Anger in 2022 in Munich, with the kind support of the Monacensia in the Hildebrandhaus. Thanks to the support of the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Jüdisches Museum München, we, the participants of the P-Seminar, were able to deal intensively with Therese Giehse's life and work.
Israeli Consulate Munich
It was not until 1965 that the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations. But already in the fall of 1948 an Israeli consulate was opened in Munich. However, it was not considered an institution that maintained official relations with Germany, but with the Western occupying powers (USA, Great Britain and France). The consulate was mainly there for the needs of the Jewish displaced persons who were staying in DP camps in Bavaria.
Synagogue Reichenbachstraße (Munich)
About its construction and its inauguration on September 5, 1931 could be read in the Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeit on September 15, 1931: "Inauguration ceremony of the new synagogue in Munich. On Saturday, September 5, the new synagogue of the Eastern Jewish prayer hall associations Linath-Hazedek and Agudath-Achim in Munich on Reichenbachstrasse was handed over to its intended purpose in a solemn act in which the entire Jewish community of Munich participated without distinction of direction." In the last issue of the 'Jüdisches Echo' Dr.
New Jewish Cemetery (Munich)
The New Jewish Cemetery in Munich is located in the Freimann district. After it was already foreseeable in the 1880s that the old cemetery could no longer be expanded, a suitable site was sought for the new construction of a cemetery. In 1904, such a site was found on Ungererstrasse. The cemetery could be occupied from July 1, 1908. Today the cemetery covers an area of more than 5 hectares and has 22 grave sections. It is surrounded by a total of 966.50 m long concrete wall.