Etwas lernen aus den 30er Jahren“ : www.1938projekt.org – neues Online-Projekt des Leo Baeck Instituts.

Abstract

Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk Köln about the online project "1938 Posts from the Past" by the Leo-Baeck-Institute in New York.The broadcast on April 13, 2018 was part of a series “Schalom - Jüdisches Leben heute”.Throughout 2018, using documents from the Leo Baeck Institute’s – archives in New York/Berlin, the project updated its site daily with personal letters, diaries, and photographs, saved by Austrian and German Jews - one for each day in 1938. These materials illustrate the range of reactions and emotions that individuals and families had as they struggled to escape Germany and Austria in order to survive