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Media Release: Exhibit “Final Sale. The End of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Nazi Berlin”

Posted on January 19, 2011 in Press Releases

Wilhelm Philippi's lighting store in Berlin on November 10, 1938. The remnants of a sign bearing the owner's name are visible; Nazi's forced Jewish-owned stores in Berlin to display the owner's name prominently, which served as a guide posts for the destruction on November 9, 1938. © The Wiener Library

(New York, Jan. 19, 2011) The exhibition, Final Sale. The End of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Nazi Berlin, uses the stories of 16 Berlin entrepreneurs to document the process by which Jews in Germany’s capital were disenfranchised and their livelihoods destroyed. Through March 31 at LBI. Includes cleared hi resolution photographs.