May 8 or 9? - Jewish Perspectives

Public guided tour (in English)

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.

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.

Meeting point: Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer

Price: €6.00

Reduced price: €3.00

Booking: Please also get a free ticket for the core exhibition at the ticket desk at the museum entrance.

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 09/May/2026 15:00
• Venue Jüdisches Museum Berlin
• Address Lindenstraße 14, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg