Last address: Müllerstraße 163

The buried history of a house and its Jewish residents

Das zerstörte Gebäude Müllerstraße 163 (links). Aufnahme von 1945. In der Bildmitte Propagandaplakate der Roten Armee: „Ruhm den besten Söhnen des Vaterlandes" (linkes Plakat), „Es lebe das kraftvolle sowjetische Volk" (rechtes Plakat) – Das zerstörte Gebäude Müllerstraße 163 (links). Aufnahme von 1945. In der Bildmitte Propagandaplakate der Roten Armee: „Ruhm den besten Söhnen des Vaterlandes" (linkes Plakat), „Es lebe das kraftvolle sowjetische Volk" (rechtes Plakat). © Landesarchiv

The exhibition invites visitors on a journey through time, from the once mill-lined road out of town to the nightlife and shopping mile of northern Berlin in the 1930s.

Historical documents show the changes from "red Wedding" to brown terror. The Müllerstraße 163 property is the focus of the eventful history of Berlin and its former working-class district: once an apple orchard, then a pub and, since the end of the 19th century, a four-storey residential building with a distillery on the first floor. The lives and deaths of three Jewish families crossed paths in one of the apartments in the early 1940s. The Wolff family, who owned the house, the Freundlich family, who were forced to relocate to the "Jewish apartment", and the Gold couple, who lived there in a so-called "mixed marriage", are exemplary of the Nazi state's policy of exclusion and extermination.

Students at the University of Potsdam spent over a year researching the topic and compiling the documents that form the basis of this exhibition.

Runtime: Fri, 05/04/2024 to Sun, 07/07/2024

Takes place here:

• Mitte Museum