Jewish Museum Munich

After the Second World War, the Canadian government allowed around one thousand orphans from Europe to emigrate to Canada as part of the War Orphans Project, which was initiated by the Jewish community in Canada and founded in 1919. Manfred Saalheimer, who was born in Würzburg, was in charge of implementing the program. He was supported by the Canadian social worker Ethel Ostry, who had her office in Munich. Between September 1947 and March 1952, 1,116 children from DP camps and children's homes from all over Europe came to Canada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Rosa Klauber lace store with two branches and its own production facilities existed from 1859 to 1938. In 1859, Rosa Klauber from Bohemia founded the lace house at Tal 76. Later, under the management of her son Moritz Klauber, the store moved first to Theatinerstrasse 16 and then to Theatinerstrasse 35. The third generation of the family to run the business were Rosa Klauber's grandsons Ernst, Ludwig and Siegfried Klauber.

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.

After training as a commercial apprentice in Sankt Gallen, Otto Landauer, born Nathan Landauer (1842 in Hürben - 1913 in Munich) opened a button, ribbon and trimmings shop in Munich in 1878, which he later converted into a ladies' fashion store. In 1889, Otto Landauer Damenmoden moved into a newly built business premises at Kaufingerstraße 28. In 1904 and 1906, Landauer acquired the neighboring properties and expanded his salesrooms. In 1909, Otto Landauer became a Bavarian Councillor of Commerce and in 1912 a Royal Bavarian Court Purveyor.

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.