Schönebeck. Dr Kai Langer, Director of the Saxony-Anhalt Memorial Sites Foundation, is expected to attend the opening of the new special exhibition on Thursday afternoon, 3 September, and to deliver a welcome address. The Salzlandmuseum invites you to attend. The travelling exhibition ‘Marked and Persecuted as Jews: Jewish Identities and Nazi Crime Sites in Saxony-Anhalt’ will run at the Salzlandmuseum until the end of the Jewish Weeks in Schönebeck, concluding on 21 November.
“We have already brought this exhibition from the Lichtenburg Prettin Concentration Camp Memorial to our museum so that we can allow ourselves more time to engage with the content of this ever-relevant topic,” explains museum director Petra Koch. “For this reason, over the coming weeks we will be complementing the exhibition on site with museum education programmes for visitors of all ages.” The museum director lists the individual activities, which can be booked free of charge by anyone interested:
During a one-day workshop, participants will familiarise themselves with the exhibition and then explore anti-Semitic myths and prejudices in everyday life, both in and out of school.
In addition, over the course of four hours, young participants aged 14 and over in particular can explore Jewish diversity through the exhibition as part of a project day.
In addition, during the Jewish Weeks in Schönebeck in November, the Salzlandmuseum offers all visitors the chance to travel through time – from the Nazi era to the present day – using virtual reality headsets, namely by visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam via VR headsets or taking a virtual tour of the former Lublin-Majdanek concentration and extermination camp with a contemporary witness. This experience is also available to book freely and is free of charge.
On the travelling exhibition ‘Marked and Persecuted as Jews’
As part of the commemorative year ‘1,700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany’, the travelling exhibition ‘Branded and Persecuted as Jews. Jewish Identities and Nazi Crime Sites in Saxony-Anhalt’. It profiles twelve people who were identified as Jews by the Nazis and, as a consequence, forcibly excluded from the so-called ‘national community’. It also presents the historical sites associated with the seven participating memorial sites as sites of Nazi crimes. This is accompanied by a classification and description of the six sites of crime and present-day memorial sites: Lichtenburg, Bernburg, Langenstein, Gardelegen, Roter Ochse in Halle and Moritzplatz in Magdeburg; for the Nazi crimes did not take place only far away in the East, but right on our doorstep, in our own neighbourhoods.
Opening of the special exhibition ‘Marked and Persecuted as Jews!’ (3 September – 21 November 2026) | Thursday 3 September, 4.30–5.30 pm | Salzlandmuseum Schönebeck, Gallery Hall