Talking Memory: The Landsberg Community: A Microhistory of German Jewry under National Socialism

This program focuses on the German Jewish community in Landsberg before and during the Holocaust. The event will open with remarks by Yigal Cohen, CEO of the Ghetto Fighters’ House.

Prof. Guy Miron will examine the world of German Jewry from the eve of the Nazi rise to power through the outbreak of World War II, exploring how the persecutions of the Third Reich reshaped personal lives, communal structures, and Jewish identity. His lecture highlights how communities living under oppression nonetheless exercised agency in shaping their everyday experiences.

Sonia Schätz will present the new permanent exhibition Wege nach Landsberg (Paths to Landsberg) at the Landsberg am Lech Town Museum, which addresses the Nazi period and its postwar legacies. Focusing on the daily lives of six Jewish families, her talk explores the changing realities of Jewish life from 1933 onward, the responses of the non-Jewish environment, and the curatorial choices involved in conveying this history and its relevance today.

This event in on Zoom at 2pm EST.