As part of the campaign week "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity," the Jewish Museum in cooperation with Human Rights Watch cordially invites you to a musical highlight: Daniel Barenboim and the muscians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will play Franz Schubert's "Trout Quintet" on 20 March 2007, at 8 pm.

As part of the campaign week "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity," the Jewish Museum in cooperation with Human Rights Watch cordially invites you to a musical highlight: Daniel Barenboim and the muscians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will play Franz Schubert's "Trout Quintet" on 20 March 2007, at 8 pm.

The brutal conflict in Darfur - Origins, circumstances, and solutions: These will be the focus of an international conference with distinguished speakers to which the Jewish Museum Berlin and Human Rights Watch cordially invite you on Friday 16 March.

The Jewish Museum Berlin in cooperation with Human Rights Watch opens the "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity" campaign week under the patronage of Kofi Annan and with a speech by Joschka Fischer on Thursday 15 March. The museum and the human rights organization aim to shine the public spotlight onto one of today's most brutal conflicts.

When Tessa Uys fingers run up and down the ivories of the Blüthner grand piano at the Jewish Museum Berlin, it will be like meeting a trusted and familiar family member again. The instrument originally belonged to her mother Helga Bassel, who at the age of 28 fled the Nazis to South Africa in 1936. In her luggage was the grand piano she had bought in Berlin and on which her daughter was to learn.

The Jewish Museum Berlin is extending the special exhibition "Jewish - now. Photographs and Interviews" for almost 4 weeks until 25 February 2007. In various series of photographs, students intensively explored a theme with which they were unfamiliar at the outset: Jewish life in Germany today.

A two-day conference of international donors for Afghanistan ends in Berlin today.

Is it the case that the "Long Museum Night" will not take place this year? Not so at the Jewish Museum Berlin! The Museum will open its doors for the "Long Night of Exile" on 27 January 2007 when admission will be free of charge for all visitors from 6 pm to midnight.

As teenagers, they fled the Nazis from many European countries to the USA. Years later, lots of the young Jewish emigrants returned - as soldiers on secret military missions. They called themselves the "Ritchie Boys" after the Ritchie training camp in Maryland where they were prepared for psychological warfare. The story of the "Ritchie Boys" was told for the first time by the film director Christian Bauer in his film of the same name released in 2004.

Fleeing, exile, and the question of "home" are not just themes belonging to the past but are still highly relevant and the subject of heated debate today.

As part of the program surrounding the exhibition "Jewish - now. Photographs and Interviews" on show at the Jewish Museum Berlin until 29 January 2007, students and professors from the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld will discuss their project "Jewish." The shooting of the various series of photographs involved intensive exploration of a theme with which they were unfamiliar at the outset: Jewish life today in Germany. We invite you to the discussion on Thursday 25 January at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

In April 2006, the Jewish Museum Berlin came into possession of the bequest of Elisabeth Wust and Felice Schragenheim, whose love story became well-known through the film "Aimee & Jaguar." After making an inventory of the more than 500 documents, diaries, and photographs, articles were selected and are, as of today, on display for the first time in the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin entitled "Two Millennia of German Jewish History."