The First World War in Jewish Memory

Curators Present Selected Objects

The collections of the Jewish Museum Berlin contain numerous artifacts related to the First World War. Curators of the collections and the archive address these and other questions:

  • What was its meaning in German-Jewish commemorative culture?
  • How was the war represented at the time?
  • And how did future generations hear about it?

  • Aubrey Pomerance, Director of the Archives, on a spiked military helmet known as a Pickelhaube

  • Theresia Ziehe, Curator of Photography, on photographs of soldiers

  • Inka Bertz, Curator of Art, on portrayals of prisoners of war

  • Leonore Maier, Curator of Material Culture, on the Honor Cross and conferral certificates

  • Michal Friedlander, Curator of Judaica and Applied Arts, on Torah pointers and their inscriptions

  • Ulrike Sonnemann, Head Librarian, on remembering through books

  • Inka Bertz, Curator of Art, presents prints commemorating the war

  • Aubrey Pomerance, Director of the Archives, on a box for letters from the front

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