Munich Displaced
The Surviving Remnant
July 5th, 2023 – April 7th, 2024 | Levels 1 & 2
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
Munich Displaced
The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” presents a variety of experiences in the immediate post-war period in Munich. For the first time, the focus is on the heterogeneous group of Displaced Persons (DPs), i.e. all those people who fled, were displaced or deported as a result of the World War II and now found themselves in Munich after 1945.
In two parallel exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Munich and the Münchner Stadtmuseum (until 7 January 2024), the histories of the DP communities are to be placed in a local historical context.
Mu…
July 5th, 2023 – April 7th, 2024 | Levels 1 & 2
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
Munich Displaced
The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” presents a variety of experiences in the immediate post-war period in Munich. For the first time, the focus is on the heterogeneous group of Displaced Persons (DPs), i.e. all those people who fled, were displaced or deported as a result of the World War II and now found themselves in Munich after 1945.
In two parallel exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Munich and the Münchner Stadtmuseum (until 7 January 2024), the histories of the DP communities are to be placed in a local historical context.
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
The Jewish Museum Munich looks in detail at the Jewish DP infrastructure in Munich. The area around Möhlstrasse in the Bogenhausen neighborhood, which was of immense importance to Jewish DPs after 1945 — with key institutions such as Joint, the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, grocery stores and kosher restaurants — is examined in depth. The setting up of businesses by Jewish DPs in Munich, the reopening of the Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue in 1947, and the “Exhibition of Jewish Artists” in 1948 at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus are also highlighted with exhibits shown for the first time. The Jewish Museum Munich identifies addresses that were once part of Jewish DPs’ everyday life, history, and culture. Many of these locations still exist today, and yet all traces of this fleeting Jewish perspective have long since disappeared. The idea of how to develop this topic was based on the Yiddish information brochure “Der Najer Jidiszer Wegwajzer fun di wichtigste Institucjes in Minchen” from the DP era.
The Jewish Museum Munich fervently hopes that descendants of former DPs will come forward with further addresses, information, and memorabilia from this period. In this way, museum visitors can make a direct contribution to our collection and ongoing research work.
Curators: Jutta Fleckenstein and Ulrike Heikaus in cooperation with Sarah Steinborn
Exhibition Design: gewerkdesign, Berlin
Download the exhibiton leafllet here
July 5th, 2023 – April 7th, 2024 | Levels 1 & 2
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
Munich Displaced
The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” presents a variety of experiences in the immediate post-war period in Munich. For the first time, the focus is on the heterogeneous group of Displaced Persons (DPs), i.e. all those people who fled, were displaced or deported as a result of the World War II and now found themselves in Munich after 1945.
In two parallel exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Munich and the Münchner Stadtmuseum (until 7 January 2024), the histories of the DP communities are to be placed in a local historical context.
Mu…
July 5th, 2023 – April 7th, 2024 | Levels 1 & 2
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
Munich Displaced
The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” presents a variety of experiences in the immediate post-war period in Munich. For the first time, the focus is on the heterogeneous group of Displaced Persons (DPs), i.e. all those people who fled, were displaced or deported as a result of the World War II and now found themselves in Munich after 1945.
In two parallel exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Munich and the Münchner Stadtmuseum (until 7 January 2024), the histories of the DP communities are to be placed in a local historical context.
Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant
The Jewish Museum Munich looks in detail at the Jewish DP infrastructure in Munich. The area around Möhlstrasse in the Bogenhausen neighborhood, which was of immense importance to Jewish DPs after 1945 — with key institutions such as Joint, the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, grocery stores and kosher restaurants — is examined in depth. The setting up of businesses by Jewish DPs in Munich, the reopening of the Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue in 1947, and the “Exhibition of Jewish Artists” in 1948 at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus are also highlighted with exhibits shown for the first time. The Jewish Museum Munich identifies addresses that were once part of Jewish DPs’ everyday life, history, and culture. Many of these locations still exist today, and yet all traces of this fleeting Jewish perspective have long since disappeared. The idea of how to develop this topic was based on the Yiddish information brochure “Der Najer Jidiszer Wegwajzer fun di wichtigste Institucjes in Minchen” from the DP era.
The Jewish Museum Munich fervently hopes that descendants of former DPs will come forward with further addresses, information, and memorabilia from this period. In this way, museum visitors can make a direct contribution to our collection and ongoing research work.
Curators: Jutta Fleckenstein and Ulrike Heikaus in cooperation with Sarah Steinborn
Exhibition Design: gewerkdesign, Berlin
Download the exhibiton leafllet here
Duration of exhibition
July 5th, 2023 – April 9, 2024
Where
Level 1 and 2
Curator
Jutta Fleckenstein und Ulrike Heikaus
Assistance
Sarah Steinborn
Architecture
gewerdesign, Berlin
What else is going on?
Find out more about our current events and regular guided tours
Teachers & Schools
Are you a teacher and would like to visit our museum with your class(es) or colleagues? Find out more about our individual packages for teachers and school classes.
Munich Displaced. From here and there
PACKAGES
What else is going on?
Find out more about our current events and regular guided tours
Teachers & Schools
Are you a teacher and would like to visit our museum with your class(es) or colleagues? Find out more about our individual packages for teachers and school classes.
Munich Displaced. From here and there
PACKAGES
Update Munich Displaced
The son of the DP and artist Pinchas Schuldenrein called us from New Jersey. He had discovered a poster by his father in an article at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and was able to tell us more about his life::
Update Munich Displaced // DP and Artist Pinchas Schuldenrein
Elias Stern’s daughter called us because a relative had happened to see Stern’s business card in the Jewish Museum Munich. Stern worked as the manager of the Hotel Bristol in Möhlstrasse in 1947. He never spoke to his family about the immediate post-war period.
Update Munich Displaced // Elias Stern
Ellen Presser, Head of the Cultural Center at the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München handed the Jewish Museum Munich several memorabilia for its collection. Among these objects is Ernest Landau’s business card.
Update Munich Displaced // Ernest Landau
Update Munich Displaced
Dina Schweizer, probably born in Galicia (now Ukraine) in 1935, visited the “Munich Displaced” exhibition with her two sons and told us about her time in the Neu-Freimann DP camp between 1947 and 1949.
Update Munich Displaced // Neu-Freimann DP-Camp
During her time in Neu-Freimann Displaced Person’s (DP’s) camp, Danuta Mandel attended the Hebrew grammar school in Möhlstrasse. A recollection.
Update Munich Displaced // Hebrew Gymnasium
For our current exhibition “Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant,” our research focussed on some 40 sites and their significance for Displaced Persons (DPs) in Munich. One place played a special role in the life of Maria Leipelt—sister of Hans Leipelt who supported the White Rose resistance group—as Angela Bottin told us.
Update Munich Displaced // Maria Leipelt and Siebertstrasse 3
Update Munich Displaced
Dina Schweizer, probably born in Galicia (now Ukraine) in 1935, visited the “Munich Displaced” exhibition with her two sons and told us about her time in the Neu-Freimann DP camp between 1947 and 1949.
Update Munich Displaced // Neu-Freimann DP-Camp
During her time in Neu-Freimann Displaced Person’s (DP’s) camp, Danuta Mandel attended the Hebrew grammar school in Möhlstrasse. A recollection.
Update Munich Displaced // Hebrew Gymnasium
For our current exhibition “Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant,” our research focussed on some 40 sites and their significance for Displaced Persons (DPs) in Munich. One place played a special role in the life of Maria Leipelt—sister of Hans Leipelt who supported the White Rose resistance group—as Angela Bottin told us.
Update Munich Displaced // Maria Leipelt and Siebertstrasse 3
Update Munich Displaced
Go or stay? Many Displaced Persons asked themselves this question in the post-war period. Leon Garnczarski’s daughter showed us a photo of her father preparing to go to America. In the end, however, he did not leave Bavaria and worked instead in a bar on Goethestrasse.
Update Munich Displaced // Leon Garnczarski
As many Jews did not want to be treated by German doctors, the Jewish self-administration committees demanded their own medical infrastructure and a separate hospital as early as the end of 1945.
Update Munich Displaced // Jewish Hospital
Munich’s DP camps, and nearby communities, were places of succor, solace and hope for tens of thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors after the Second World War. Among the many types of humanitarian “relief supplies” provided to DPs were film screenings provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Simone Gigliotti explores the challenges of mounting and delivering this little-known film programme.
Update München Displaced // Film as Relief in Postwar Munich
In her guest article, Prof. Shulamit Almog from Haifa University traces the story of her father Dr. Leon Wasser, who came to Munich as a displaced person in 1945 and studied dentistry here.
Update München Displaced // A Munich Displaced Person: Dr. Leon Wasser
Update Munich Displaced
Go or stay? Many Displaced Persons asked themselves this question in the post-war period. Leon Garnczarski’s daughter showed us a photo of her father preparing to go to America. In the end, however, he did not leave Bavaria and worked instead in a bar on Goethestrasse.
Update Munich Displaced // Leon Garnczarski
As many Jews did not want to be treated by German doctors, the Jewish self-administration committees demanded their own medical infrastructure and a separate hospital as early as the end of 1945.
Update Munich Displaced // Jewish Hospital
Munich’s DP camps, and nearby communities, were places of succor, solace and hope for tens of thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors after the Second World War. Among the many types of humanitarian “relief supplies” provided to DPs were film screenings provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Simone Gigliotti explores the challenges of mounting and delivering this little-known film programme.
Update München Displaced // Film as Relief in Postwar Munich
In her guest article, Prof. Shulamit Almog from Haifa University traces the story of her father Dr. Leon Wasser, who came to Munich as a displaced person in 1945 and studied dentistry here.
Update München Displaced // A Munich Displaced Person: Dr. Leon Wasser
