Forgotten story: Exhibition testifies to Jewish life in Lower Saxony

Forgotten story: Exhibition testifies to Jewish life in Lower Saxony

Hannover, Deutschland - in Lower Saxony is discussed the dark history of Jewish persecution as part of a new permanent exhibition in the Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK). This exhibition vividly reminds of the once flowering Jewish life in Hanover, which was almost completely wiped out by the atrocities of the Holocaust. Minister Falko Mohrs emphasized at the opening that the history of the MWK site is inseparable from the horrors of National Socialist rule. Once the magnificent new synagogue, which was inaugurated in 1870, was a symbol of German-Jewish coexistence. But at the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 it was set on fire and later blown up. Today the exhibition demands after the memory of the persecuted people and illuminates their tragic fates, such as "https://www.mwk.niedersachsen.de/startseiten/presseinformations/zerstort-verdrandt-ert--judenjuglung-237901.html"> Niedersachsen.de reported.

The legacy of the Jewish community in Gröbzig

In Saxony-Anhalt, the memory of Jewish culture is kept alive through the newly designed exhibition in the Gröbzig synagogue. This was built in 1796 and was once part of the region's largest Jewish community. Due to committed descendants, the synagogue was saved as a local museum and extensively renovated. The museum director Anett Gottschalk explains how the exhibition about interactive elements and short, understandable texts would like to bring the Jewish life closer to visitors. With an anti-Semitism quiz, prejudices are also made aware and visitors are sensitized. Particular attention is paid to the preservation of Jewish traditions, which are underlined by theater performances and the exhibition of ritual objects in the synagogue, such as mdr.de reported.

These two exhibitions symbolically stand for the fight against forgetting and the endeavor to keep the memory of Jewish life in Germany. The message is clear whether the fate of the victims or awareness of the challenges that Jewish people experience today: the past demands for recognition, and the teachings from back then should not be lost.