Feibelmann must go

After the Nazi takeover, anti-Semitism in Germany was not only decreed from above. Personal resentment continued to play an important role. Through them, the anti-Jewish smear campaigns and violent measures on the ground often developed a dynamic of their own, as Jakob Feibelmann also had to experience. From 1933 onwards, the Memmingen businessman was inundated with anonymous threatening letters that were massively hostile to him and urged him to emigrate. At the end of 1934, he finally fled to Palestine, taking the letters he had collected as evidence with him.

The exhibition uses 22 reproductions of preserved letters and postcards to examine the beginnings of the National Socialist persecution of Jews at a local level. In doing so, it interweaves the history of perpetrators and victims and questions both the perpetrators of the hate messages and possible accomplices as well as the consequences for Jakob Feibelmann.

Last edited on 08.05.2026