Buried history of a house and its Jewish residents
The exhibition invites you to take a journey through time, from the path once lined with mills out of the city to the nightlife and shopping area of northern Berlin in the 1930s.
Image gallery
Das zerstörte Gebäude Müllerstraße 163 (links). Aufnahme von 1945. In der Bildmitte Propagandaplakate der Roten Armee: „Ruhm den besten Söhnen des Vaterlandes" (linkes Plakat), „Es lebe das kraftvolle sowjetische Volk" (rechtes Plakat). Landesarchiv
The changes from the “Red Wedding” to the Brown Terror can be seen using historical documents. The property at Müllerstrasse 163 is the focus of the eventful history of Berlin and its former working-class district: once an apple orchard, then an excursion restaurant and, since the end of the 19th century, a four-story residential building with a distillery on the ground floor. The life and death paths of three Jewish families crossed in one of the apartments in the early 1940s.
The Wolff family, owners of the house, the Freundlich family, who were forced to relocate to the “Jewish apartment,” and the Gold couple, who lived there in a so-called “mixed marriage,” are examples of the Nazi state's policy of exclusion and extermination .
Students at the University of Potsdam have researched the topic for over a year and compiled the documents that form the basis of this exhibition.
Opening
Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 6 p.m.
Speakers: Nathan Friedenberg (Head of the Center Museum, Head of the Department of Remembrance Culture and History), Elke-Vera Kotowski (Chief Curator of the Moses Mendelssohn Foundation/Project Manager at the University of Potsdam), representatives of the student project team.
Accompanying program
- Curator tours
Every last Thursday of the month: April 25th, May 30th, June 27th, 2024 (each at 5 p.m.)
Free of charge
Registration not required
