Das Scheunenviertelpogrom vom 5. November 1923

In the organizer's words:

with historian Karsten Krampitz and Jess Earle: The Scheunenviertel pogrom of November 5, 1923

November 5, 2024 marks the 101st anniversary of the pogrom in Berlin's Scheunenviertel. For almost two days, Berlin citizens marched through the Scheunenviertel and committed acts of violence against Jewish people in this working-class neighborhood with a visible Eastern European Jewish population. We commemorate the pogrom night on November 9, 1938 every year. Nevertheless, these massive anti-Semitic riots, which were committed by Berlin citizens 10 years before the National Socialists came to power, have almost disappeared from the public historical consciousness.

On 03.11.2024 we are taking a stand against forgetting and are organizing a day of remembrance for this shocking event in cooperation with the Mitte District Museum. As part of this program, the head of our education department, Jess Earle, and historian Karsten Krampitz will talk about his book published last year "Pogrom im Scheunenviertel. Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic and the Berlin Riots of 1923". In meticulous research, he uncovers the hitherto little-known causes and processes of the Scheunenviertel pogrom of November 5, 1923 and describes how a mass attack on Jews could occur in the middle of Berlin even before the Nazi dictatorship.

Location: Representatives' Hall of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum

Address: Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin

Registration: info@centrumjudaicum.de