Old people stand on the steps in front of a monument.

Florian Willnauer, Jewish veteran of the Red Army in front of the Soviet monu­ment in Tier­garten, Berlin 2005; Jewish Museum Berlin

May 8 or 9? - Jewish Perspectives

Public Guided Tour to Mark the 80th Anniversary of the End of the War (in German)

May 8, 2025 marks the 80th anni­versary of the end of the war. The guided tour through the rooms of the core exhibition Catastrophe and After 1945 shows Jewish reactions to National Socialist perse­cution and Jewish perspec­tives in the post-war period.

Thu 8 & Fri 9 May 2025, 3 pm

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Where, when, what?

The Auschwitz concen­tration camp was libe­rated on January 27, 1945. The Jewish soldier Yehudah Ruba­shevsky from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was one of the libe­rators of Auschwitz. Around 500,000 Jewish soldiers fought in the Red Army alone. They cele­brate the victory over Nazi Germany at the end of the war.

In the exhibition chapter Jewrej, a photo shows Jewish war veterans posing in front of the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tier­garten on May 9, 2005.

The tour traces indivi­dual bio­graphies from our family collec­tions, shows how people lived in a camp for displaced persons and also follows the Jewish-American perspec­tive from which, for example, the photo­grapher David Scherman captured National Socialist symbols with the gaze of the victor.

Where, when, what?

  • WhenThu 8 & Fri 9 May 2025, 3 pm
  • Where Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map
  • Entry fee

    6 €, reduced rate 3 €
    Reserve Online Ticket

  • Please note Please also get a free ticket for the core exhibition at the ticket desk at the museum entrance.

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