Stumble Stones in the Jewish Quarter

by | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog

On tour in the Jewish quarter today and saw many new ‘stumble stones’ (plaques dedicated to Holocaust victims, usually at their former residences) with floral tributes. Although the stones almost always describe deportation and murder, do note ‘Oskar Adler, born 1902,...

Introducing: Dr. Gisele Freund

by | Mar 29, 2018 | Blog

Dr. Gisele Freund (1928-2000), Jewish artist from Berlin-Schöneberg, student at the ‘Frankfurt School’ of sociologist Theodor Adorno, considered photography integral to political activism. Freund first photographed her fellow socialist students to document...

Book Recommendation: The Kaiser’s Holocaust

by | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog

‘The Kaiser’s Holocaust’, by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen, exposes the long-ignored history of the German Empire’s colony in modern-day Namibia and the mass murder, first officially acknowledged as a genocide by Germany in 2015, of the...