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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.
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Curated by Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
© 2018 Leo Baeck Institute
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Looking toward Palestine
The Münzer family hopes for a reunion in Palestine
This photograph, taken in October 1938, shows Moses Münzer, a tailor in Vienna, and his wife Lisa, with their five children, Elfriede, Benno, Nelly, Gertrude and Siegfried. After the "Anschluss," Moses Münzer, like many Jews, lost his job. Lisa Münzer started working as a cook in the soup kitchen of the Brigittenauer Tempel on Kluckygasse, sometimes assisted by her children. By October 21st, 15-year-old Gertrude was on her way to Palestine on Youth Aliyah, an organization founded by Recha Freier, the wife of an orthodox rabbi in Berlin, before the Nazi rise to power. Its goal was to help Jewish youth escape anti-Semitism in the Reich and settle in Palestine. Gertrude left on her own, but the intention was for the family to reunite in Palestine.
TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, ANTISEMITISM, BERLIN, CHILDREN, DISPLACEMENT, ECONOMIC PERSECUTION, EMIGRATION, FAMILY, FAMILY SEPARATION, IMPOVERISHMENT, JEWISH COMMUNITY, OCTOBER 21, PALESTINE, PHOTO, RABBIS, REFUGEES, SYNAGOGUES, TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS, VIENNA, WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS, YOUTH ALIYAH
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Gertrude Knopf Family Collection, AR 11692
Source available in English
on the days before
Kicked out of the family business
Fluch der Bürokratie
Curated by Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin © 2018 Leo Baeck Institute