Jewish life in Bamberg
29.04.2025 - 30.10.2025 ,
Historisches Museum Bamberg (Bamberg Historical Museum)
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With a modern approach, the exhibition "Jews in Bamberg" shows the traces left behind by Jews living in Franconia since the Middle Ages. Using historical sources, eyewitness accounts and numerous artefacts and everyday objects, the exhibition tells of the eventful history, the end and new beginning of Jewish life in Bamberg.
The conflict-ridden coexistence with the Christian majority over the centuries, expulsion and pogroms as well as the deep cut caused by National Socialism meant that the material and spiritual culture of Bamberg's Jews has only survived in fragments. The exhibition endeavours to make the surviving traces visible and to show their links in history.
Part of the exhibition is the fate of the Jewish girl Erika Löbl, whose rediscovered diary was published in 2016 under the title From Bamberg to Quito. The Diary of Erika Löbl, was published as a transcription by the Bamberg City Archives and the Museums of the City of Bamberg. In it, she reports directly on events that were important to her, born in Bamberg in 1924, at the end of the 1930s.
Last edited on 10.11.2025
