Yesterday, the tenth online exhibition on the the key documents website was launched as part of the event “Persian Jews in Hamburg – another Jewish post-war history”. The exhibition “We came because of the free trade…” A different post-war history: The Iranian-Jewish community in Hamburg is based on the example of various family stories from within the group of Iranian Jews who immigrated since the 1950s to Hamburg. It sheds light on a different post-war Jewish history, in which migration and economic history intertwine and whose local and at the same time global point of reference for several decades was Hamburg.
Author: Anna Menny
A collaborative portal on Jewish history – Key Documents are participating!
As part of this year’s Historiker Tag in Leipzig, the collaborative portal Jewish History online, hosted by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and developed in cooperation with the IGdJ, was launched. On the website, various digital projects can be searched simultaneously. The Key Documents edition is participating from the beginning! Discover more!
New Source Dossier “(No) return?”
Most Jewish refugees did not return to their former places of birth and residence after 1945. Nevertheless, looking at questions of remigration and belonging allows for a better understanding of German-Jewish postwar history. The new source dossier “(No) return? Return and (Re-)migration to Hamburg” is therefore devoted to precisely this aspect of the city’s history on the basis of a wide range of sources. Continue reading
Student Assistant wanted!
Do you like working with historical sources? Do you have experience in digital history and already worked on an edition?
We are looking for a student assistant with 37.5 hours / month to support the project Key Documents! For more information see here.
New Online-Exhibition: “Nothing. Just Leave!” Escape from Germany and New Beginnings in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and São Paulo
Our new exhibition “Nothing. Just Leave!” Escape from Germany and New Beginnings in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and São Paulo on emigration to South America is online. In seven chapters, the difficult history of the decision to emigrate is traced through to the aftermath of this (family) biographical caesura in the three urban areas: https://jewish-history-online.net/exhibition/emigration-south-america
Reading with documents from the Key Documents – July 3, 2022
In July 1942, Jews from Hamburg were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Thus, after a seven-month interruption, the National Socialists continued the deportations that led thousands to their deaths. The Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres, the VHS-Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Israelitische Töchterschule, and the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ) would like to commemorate these historic events, which will reach their 80th anniversary in 2022, with a jointly organized event on July 3, 2022.
On that day, a performance reading will take place at 11 a.m. at denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof in Lohsepark at the historic deportation site. Members of the student theater group Kalliope Universitätstheater e.V. will provide insights into the historical events based on contemporary observations as well as retrospectively written memoirs of contemporary witnesses. In farewell letters or diary entries, the victims as well as those who observed the events have their say. For the deportations took place before the eyes of the Hamburg public and were also noticed by them. Continue reading
The Key Documents on bildungsgeschichte.de
A detailed report on the Key Documents Edition has just been published on the portal bildungsgeschichte.de, a platform for topics regarding the history of education. We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann, who is the editor of the thematic category Education and Learning, for this appreciation. Click here for the full report.
City map with places of Jewish past and present – now online!
We have just launched the new edition of the (digital) city map that was realized in cooperation with the Hamburg Ministry of Culture. The digital map lists more than 200 sites of historical and contemporary Jewish life throughout the entire Hamburg city area and links them to further information, in particular to articles in our Key Documents Edition. A menu box allows for filtering the sites according to specific thematic categories. Start discovering for yourself and follow the (unknown) traces of Jewish life!
Support wanted!
We are looking for support in the area of Digital History at the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg, specifically for the implementation of an online exhibition as part of the online source edition “Key-Documents of German-Jewish History“.
Following the traces of Jewish women – cooperation with Jewish Places
In addition to our online exhibition “Women’s Lives. Work and Impact of Jewish Women in Hamburg” we have developed a walking tour along the places where some of these women lived and worked. The walk introduces nine Jewish women who lived in Hamburg at different times and thus also left traces in the urban space. The tour is offered via the website Jewish Places by the Jewish Museum Berlin.