Filmreihe Jüdisches 1945

In the organizer's words:

Long is the way (1948):
As one of the first German feature films to address the fate of the
Jewish victims of persecution, the film shows the journey of a
of a Jew from Poland who survived the Holocaust and is looking
searching for his mother. He and other displaced persons (DPs)
fight for a new life and hope for a future in the state of Israel, which did not yet exist at the time the film was shot.

Knut Elstermann in conversation with Rachel Salamander and Daniel Jonah Wolpert

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the New Synagogue Berlin-Centrum Judaicum Foundation is presenting a special film series together with Urania Berlin e.V. and the Jewish Film Festival Berlin | Brandenburg. Between March and May 2025, films about Jewish experiences after the Shoah will be shown, accompanied by panel discussions with experts from the fields of film, history and culture, moderated by Knut Elstermann.

While so-called "rubble films" focused on the suffering of the civilian population, Jewish perspectives in the immediate aftermath of the war often went unmentioned or were only hinted at. Some stories are still missing today. It is important to us to counteract this.

The film series is part of the city-wide theme week 80 Years of the End of the War, initiated and funded by the state of Berlin and realized by Kulturprojekte Berlin with numerous partners.