After the National Socialists came to power, anti-Semitism in Germany was not only imposed from the top. Personal resentments continued to play an important role. As a result, anti-Jewish smear campaigns and violent measures often developed a dynamic of their own, as Jakob Feibelmann was forced to experience. Starting in 1933, the entrepreneur from Memmingen was flooded with anonymous threatening letters, which massively antagonized him and urged him to emigrate. At the end of 1934, he eventually fled to Palestine, taking with him the letters he had collected as evidence.

The exhibition examines the beginnings of National Socialist persecution of Jews at the local level on the basis of 22 reproductions of preserved letters and postcards. In doing so, it intertwines the history of perpetrators and victims and asks both about the originators of the hate messages and possible accomplices, as well as about the consequences for Jakob Feibelmann.

A Traveling Exhibition of the Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia in Cooperation with the Network of Historical Synagogue Sites in Bavarian Swabia

WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

At a glance

Date

14.03.2023 – 03.09.2023

Location

Former Kriegshaber Synagogue
Ulmer Straße 228, 86156 Augsburg

opening hours

THU – SUN: 2 – 6 P.M.

admission

6,00 | 3,00 € reduced

curator

Monika Müller (JMAS)

curatorial collaboration

Vincent Hoyer (Leipzig)
Michael Ilg (Berlin)
Souzana Hazan, Michaela Krauth, Ayleen Winkler (JMAS)

Jakob Feibelmann mit seiner Frau Irma und seinen Kindern Marie und Heinz (li.) sowie seinem Bruder Moritz und dessen Frau Betty Feibelmann, Memmingen 1923. © Amira Korin, Herzliya, Israel
Jakob Feibelmann mit seiner Frau Irma und seinen Kindern Marie und Heinz (li.) sowie seinem Bruder Moritz und dessen Frau Betty Feibelmann, Memmingen 1923. © Amira Korin, Herzliya, Israel
Die Herrenstraße 14 in Memmingen, in der Jakob Feibelmann seit Ende der 1920er Jahre mit seiner Familie wohnte, o.D. © Amira Korin, Herzliya, Israel
Die Herrenstraße 14 in Memmingen, in der Jakob Feibelmann seit Anfang der 1930er Jahre mit seiner Familie wohnte, o.D. © Amira Korin, Herzliya, Israel
Ausschnitt aus einer Drohkarte an Jakob Feibelmann vom 29.01.1934.
Ausschnitt aus einer Drohkarte an Jakob Feibelmann vom 29.01.1934. © Amira Korin, Herzliya, Israel

Guided Tours

public curator guided tours in german

April 23 | May 21 | June 25 | July 23 | August 27

each at 3.00 p.m.

Please register until the Friday before at 3.00 p.m. by calling Tel. 0821 – 44 42 87 17 or by sending a mail to kh@jmaugsburg.de


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Group Tours

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