Scheunenviertelpogrom 1923 - Gedenktag

In the organizer's words:

At the beginning of November 1923, a pogrom broke out in Berlin's Scheunenviertel. For almost two days, Berliners marched through the Scheunenviertel and committed acts of violence against Jewish people in this working-class neighborhood. This massive outbreak of violence, ten years before the National Socialists came to power, has almost disappeared from the public historical consciousness. There are hardly any historical traces of the Scheunenviertel either, with only a few stumbling blocks indicating its former Eastern European Jewish population.

That is why we are taking a stand against oblivion on 02.11.2025 and are organizing a day of remembrance in cooperation with the Mitte Museum. It is not only about the Scheunenviertel pogrom, but also about the lives of the people for whom the Scheunenviertel was their home. With historian Anne-Christin Saß, author of "Berliner Luftmenschen: Osteuropäisch-jüdische Migranten in der Weimarer Republik" and budding historian Laurids Ponßen, who is working on a study on Grenadierstraße, we will discuss the realities and designs of life in the Scheunenviertel.

We will then set off on a search for traces of the Scheunenviertel in the 1920s. Here we will trace the places where German Jews met Eastern European Jewish migrants. The focus is not only on the pogrom and oppression, but also on the former diversity of theaters, stores, schools, clubs and synagogues where these people lived. Along the way, we meet the poet Mascha Kaléko, actor Alexander Granach and many other historical personalities of Jewish Berlin in the 1920s.

12:00-13:30 - Discussion about life in the Scheunenviertel with historian Anne-Christin Saß, budding historian Laurids Ponßen and the head of the Education and Collections departments, Jess Earle, in the Representatives' Hall of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum

14:00-16:00 - City tour: "Yiddish, Jewish, German and everything in between: traces of Jewish life in the Scheunenviertel of the Golden 20s"

Address:Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin

Anmeldung:info@centrumjudaicum.de