Culture Wednesday - Permanent Exhibition 'We Were Neighbors'

The permanent exhibition We Were Neighbours deals with the lives and stories of suffering of Jewish citizens from today's double district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. With very personal photos, documents and reports, the family stories are told from the perspective of contemporary witnesses or their relatives. All the facets that characterised everyday life until 1933 (when the Nazis came to power) become visible: memories of school, home, workplace and friendship.

Over 170 biographical albums form the centre of the exhibition. The biographies of celebrities such as Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, writer Nelly Sachs, photographer Gisele Freund and director Billy Wilder are displayed alongside those of lesser-known Schöneberg and Tempelhof residents. They were all subjected to racist persecution after 1933. Those who managed to flee into exile talk about the circumstances under which they had to find their way as refugees, for example in Shanghai, the USA or South America, but also how their lives continued after 1945.

Meeting point: at 13:30 in front of Sprachenatelier
Duration: as long as you like
Costs: none