“Identified and persecuted as Jews. Jewish identities and sites of Nazi atrocities in Saxony-Anhalt”

Special exhibition as part of the commemorative year ‘1,700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany’, from 3 September to 21 November 2026 

Opening: Thursday, 3 September | 4.30–5.30 pm

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.