Objekt Days; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Stephan Pramme
Jewish Migration Stories
Book Launch and Panel Discussion on the Object Days Project (in German)
“Show us your story!” With this call for the Object Days collection project, the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) asked Jews throughout Germany to tell their migration stories. Between 2017 and 2024, numerous participants took up the invitation: they described their personal stories and connections to Judaism using an object that had accompanied them on their journey to Germany and had taken on a special meaning for them – such as a model ship, a family photo or a leather jacket.
Sun 23 Mar 2025, 11 am
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
The book Object Days brings together 125 portraits and migration stories of the participants. It is published at the end of the collection project of the same name and is being presented for the first time.
During a panel discussion, three of the participants – Elena Padva, Jake Schneider and Mona Nasirzadeh – will present their objects and migration stories in person. Sofya Chernykh, Tamar Lewinsky and Theresia Ziehe, initiators and project managers of the Object Days at the JMB, will talk about why migration narratives are becoming increasingly important in museums and how the JMB is expanding its collections on this topic.
Book cover Object Days: Memorabilia and Migration Stories; Jewish Museum Berlin 2025
