Museum

The villa at Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 42 was built in 1924/25 for the silk merchant Richard Merländer (born 1874 in Mülheim/Ruhr). The architect was called Friedrich Kühnen.

Richard Merländer was a bachelor and lived with his staff in the peculiarly designed building. Because of his Jewish origin, he was persecuted by the National Socialist state after 1933. He had to give up his shares in the company, and his middle-class existence was destroyed. He was forced to sell his house. Instead, he had to move into a "Judenhaus" in 1941.

The Anne Frank Zentrum, which opened in Berlin on June 12, 1998, is the German partner organization of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The center commemorates Anne Frank's life and her diary with exhibitions and educational programs. In this way, visitors are given access to the history of the Holocaust and encouraged to confront anti-Semitism in the past and present.

In 1909, the Jewish community of Leer built a school building in what was then Deichstraße, which was to serve as both a religious and a (public) elementary school. Before that, the pupils* had been taught in a house in Kirchstraße since the 1840s/50s (cf. Beykirch 2006, 32f.). Until its closure, four teachers (Lasser Abt, Ignaz Popper, Hermann Spier and Seligmann Hirschberg) taught successively at the Jewish School Leer.

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.

In the BADEHAUS of Waldram (formerly Föhrenwald), history can be experienced as if in fast motion: From 1940, the National Socialists built a model settlement for armaments workers in the Wolfratshaus forest. Towards the end of the war, the concentration camp death march passed by here. Then Föhrenwald became a camp for Jewish displaced persons who had survived the Holocaust. From 1956 on, mostly Catholic displaced persons with many children were settled and the place was renamed Waldram. Traces of this unique migration history can still be found here today.

In the 1830 built building of the old schoolhouse in the Remsecker district Neckarrems a museum is established in 1985.

Following the discovery of the Hochberg Genizah in the attic of the former synagogue in Remseck-Hochberg, the "Jewish Room" is established in the Altes Schulhaus museum in 1992.

In the "Jewish Room" in the Museum Altes Schulhaus in Remseck-Neckarrems, the genizah finds from the former synagogue in Remseck-Hochberg are exhibited. 

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.