Museum

“Talberg Museum: Europe’s Most Visionary Jewish Sculptor Museum.” — W. White, New York. In 2021, it celebrated its 10th anniversary.

The Jewish Museum Hohenems commemorates the Jewish community of Hohenems and its diverse contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the Alpine region. It tells an exemplary story of the Diaspora. And it deals with Jewish presence in Europe, with questions of coexistence and migration. In between stands the end of the Jewish community of Hohenems, marked by regional Nazi history, anti-Semitism, expulsion, and deportation.

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.